Midterm results show redrawn districts still lost to Democrats

Newly drawn congressional maps failed to save Republican seats in several key states during Tuesday's elections.

The Associated Press confirmed that Democrats won multiple districts that Republicans had redrawn to favor their party. This included victories in Florida, where Kathy Castor, Pia Dandiya, and Jared Moskowitz secured their wins.

In North Carolina, Democratic Rep. Don Davis retained his 1st District seat. The state had changed the district boundaries to make it more competitive for Republicans. Data from The Downballot showed that President Trump would have won that specific redrawn district by nearly 12 percentage points.

Alabama's 2nd Congressional District also held for Democrats. Rep. Shomari Figures kept his seat despite a new map drawn after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act earlier this year. Trump would have won that district by a larger margin than in North Carolina.

Texas redrew its maps first after President Trump urged his party to act. Republican leaders expected gains with Latino voters in the new districts. However, many of those voters shifted their support to Democrats this cycle.

President Trump had called for mid-decade redistricting last year, anticipating that the coalition he won in 2024 would support Republicans in the midterms. The election results show that many of those efforts did not hold up in the final count.