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Nov 8, 2022 · Last updated: November 8, 2022. States are redrawing their 2022 congressional maps. Here's how many House districts the state will have following the 2020 census, and how voting power will shift.
May 18, 2022 · Kansas Redistricting 2022 Tracker: Congressional Maps by District. Kansas' top court upheld the Republican-drawn map, which cracked Kansas City into two districts. Who benefits: Little to...
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This section includes background information on federal requirements for congressional redistricting, state legislative redistricting, state-based requirements, redistricting methods used in the 50 states, gerrymandering, and recent court decisions.
Congressional districts
1. 1.1. See also: United States congressional delegations from Kansas Kansas comprises four congressional districts. The table below lists Kansas' current U.S. Representatives.
State legislative maps
1. 1.1. See also: Kansas State Senate and Kansas House of Representatives Kansas comprises 40 state Senate districts and 125 state House districts. State senators are elected every four years in partisan elections. State representatives are elected every two years in partisan elections. To access the current state legislative district maps, click here.
Redistricting after the 2020 census
1. 1.1. See also: Redistricting in Kansas after the 2020 census Kansas was apportioned four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. This represented neither a gain nor a loss of seats as compared to apportionment after the 2010 census.
Enacted congressional district maps
1. 1.1. See also: Congressional district maps implemented after the 2020 census On May 18, 2022, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned a district court's ruling that found that the state's enacted congressional district boundaries were unconstitutional. In a two-page order, Justice Caleb Stegall wrote for the court, "A majority of the court holds that, on the record before us, plaintiffs have not prevailed on their claims that Substitute for Senate Bill 355 violates the Kansas Constitution." On...
Enacted state legislative district maps
1. 1.1. See also: State legislative district maps implemented after the 2020 census Kansas enacted legislative district boundaries on May 18, 2022, when the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously upheld the validity of the legislative districts that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) signed into law on April 15, 2022. Both chambers of the legislature passed the redistricting legislation on March 30, 2022, after a joint House-Senate conference committee had developed it. The Kansas House of Representatives...
Redistricting legislation
1. See state election laws The following is a list of recent redistricting bills that have been introduced in or passed by the Kansas state legislature. To learn more about each of these bills, click the bill title. This information is provided by BillTrack50. Note: Due to the nature of the sorting process used to generate this list, some results may not be relevant to the topic. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation pertaining to this topic has been introduced in the legislature re...
Redistricting ballot measures
1. 1.1. See also: Redistricting measures on the ballot and List of Kansas ballot measures Ballotpedia has tracked the following ballot measure(s) relating to redistricting in Kansas. 1. Kansas Legislative Districts, Amendment 1 (1988) 2. Kansas Legislative Reapportionment, Amendment 2 (1974) 3. Kansas Legislative Apportionment, Amendment 5 (1972)
Competitiveness
There are conflicting opinions regarding the correlation between partisan gerrymandering and electoral competitiveness. In 2012, Jennifer Clark, a political science professor at the University of Houston, said, "The redistricting process has important consequences for voters. In some states, incumbent legislators work together to protect their own seats, which produces less competition in the political system. Voters may feel as though they do not have a meaningful alternative to the incumben...
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FiveThirtyEight, "What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State"National Conference of State Legislatures, "Redistricting Process"March 30, 2022: The Kansas House of Representatives approves a legislative redistricting proposal developed by a House-Senate conference committee, 83-40. March 23, 2022: The Kansas House of Representatives voted 112-9 to approve new legislative districts. March 17, 2022: The Kansas State Senate approves new legislative district boundaries, 28-8.
The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Kansas were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected four candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's four U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for August 2, 2022. The filing deadline was June 1, 2022.
Apr 25, 2022 · How will you be represented in the Kansas Legislature for the next decade? It comes down to maps. Several of them. On April 15, Gov. Laura Kelly signed three new redistricting maps, sending them to the Kansas Supreme Court for final approval. The maps set boundaries for the state House, state Senate and Kansas State Board of Education districts.
Apr 25, 2022 · State Government. Redistricting will impact Kansas for the next decade. Here’s how it works. The Wichita Beacon put together a primer on how the high-stakes, yearslong process plays out in Kansas. by Miranda Moore April 25, 2022.
