After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10–1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state’s 11 U.S. House districts toward their party. On February 6, 2026, Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger approved the redistricting referendum, pending litigation. Assuming it is allowed, the referendum will be voted on April 21, 2026.
Posted by theprez98
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Donny boy came up with this redistricting for direct personal benefit, let him and his party eat it now
The Virginia Supreme Court has to decide if it’s legal or not soon.
Somebody must’ve hired Illinois Dems to draw this map
Gerrymandering’s a wild ride, huh? Virginia be playin’ Monopoly with those districts!
They intentionally didn’t make it as aggressive of a gerrymander as they could, some seats are not safe, and 3 of them would flip red in 2021. I’m assuming this is in a bid to get the courts to keep it, like “See? Republicans can win in a good year!”
Texas started the war. Gerrymandering for everyone
Anything but proportional representation.
Im not super familiar with virginia demographics but as far as I know democrats strongholds are in the north due to dc and the east due to Richmond and Norfolk. How safe are some of these more western districts like 6, 5, and 4
This map is bad. That is why all those who are against it should support the Redistricting Reform Act to prevent more of these types of maps from happening in the future.
It’s funny to see fully half the districts making that little tiny thrust up into Fairfax county.
I mean, sure, obviously the map is shameless, but clearly what Texas did was going to kick off a gerrymandering arms race. Hard for me to feel strongly about it given the broader context.
I will say gerrymandering is a race to the bottom. Even if we end up with the exact same balance of power in the house between D and R, it’s still bad for voters.
The problem is, there aren’t really any incentives to abandon it as far as I can see. At any given time, one party will likely think they are achieving a partisan advantage from gerrymandering and seek to block nationwide efforts at reform.
it’s so interesting to watch all these other states get gerrymandered as a north carolinian. we’ve gone through like 6 different maps since the 2010 census and at some point i just became desensitized to it as a whole. maybe if we’re lucky the extreme amount of gerrymandering nationwide will lead to actual election reform (doubtfully though)
*sips tea*
That sucks. Surely republicans and MAGA will agree gerrymandering should be banned, right?
Fuck em. Let’s go!
Hmmm lemme guess the republican district…. Is it 9?
Instead of this, we should be pushing for proportional representation. Same number of reps per state, but the number from each party would be determined by statewide election results. (I.e. 54% of votes went to Dems, so 54% of the reps are Dems, etc).
Guessing 9 is GOP
Republicans losing the game they started is hilarious. Even if you don’t like this you know for a fact it would NEVER have happened if Trump hadn’t demanded mid-decade redistricting. Even then, the easy time to stop would have been after California reacted. But then they couldn’t stop themselves.
Its kinda too ugly for no good reason
gerrymandering is evil and needs to be made illegal, but you also must fight fire with fire
Moral of the story, states shouldn’t be able to do this to voting districts. Virginia Conservatives have no one to blame for their vote being disenfranchised but their own party leaders.
Engage Find Out Mode.
And how is this not gerrymandering?
We really need to get rid of this jerrymandering bullshit
Long live the multi-member list with proportional distribution of positions by state.
How much of a tilt is it for each district?
Wow, someone really wanted VA Tech
They will do anything to avoid proportional vote. If they did, Virginia would have at least 1 Libertarian seat iirc, and both parties would burn down Richmond (again) to prevent that.
Is 9 the republican district? Thats a huge amount of counties to represent
I am guessing 9 is the safe Republican seat.
Im glad they’re not gerrymandering unlike those evil republicans.
I don’t like any gerrymandering. I think it should all be drawn by 3rd party non-partisan means. But if one side has been approved to do it by the supposed Supreme Court of these United States, then I think both sides should go for broke. Maybe this way eventually people will get outraged enough to stop it from both sides.
Seeing this makes me want to vomit. Even as a liberal who generally supports the Democrats, I absolutely fucking hate *all* forms of gerrymandering, including Democratic gerrymandering. The Democrats cannot stoop as low as the Republicans, and this row of gerrymandering both delegitimizes any possible gains by the party during this year’s midterms and threatens to further tear our country apart.