Emanuel Cleaver easily wins reelection Tuesday
Missouri voters rejected the Republican-backed congressional map on Tuesday, according to an Associated Press race call cited by NPR. The proposal had wound its way through the courts before ending up on Missouri’s ballot.
Missouri GOP lawmakers passed the map last year to try to oust Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver by redrawing his Kansas City district. The goal was to pick up an additional House seat for Republicans.
Missouri’s top court ruled that the Republican-backed map could not take effect for the midterms and said voters would decide the question instead. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state court’s ruling.
The new district lines came amid a national mid-decade redistricting rush that NPR reported President Trump initiated to try to boost his party ahead of the midterm elections.
Cleaver easily won reelection Tuesday, also according to an Associated Press race call cited by NPR. He was the Democratic representative whose Kansas City district GOP lawmakers had sought to redraw through the map.
Missouri was not the only state deciding ballot measures related to redistricting.
NPR’s results coverage noted that states were deciding ballot measures concerning voter ID as well as redistricting.
Maryland voters approved a constitutional amendment changing the rules for congressional redistricting. The change allows Democratic state leaders to redraw districts ahead of the 2028 election.
Colorado voters were deciding a separate constitutional amendment that would ban congressional maps that purposefully favor one political party. NPR’s coverage had not reported a result for the Colorado proposal.