A number of states which can be redrawing their legislative districts for the 2022 elections and past have seen incumbent lawmakers announce their retirement on account of new maps, whereas others that misplaced legislative seats are poised to pit two incumbents in opposition to one another for one district, and voters in some states could also be positioned in districts with residents throughout the state with vastly completely different political opinions.

Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper from Tennessee introduced he wouldn't search reelection in 2022. The district, representing Democrat-leaning Nashville, which Cooper has held since 2003 is about to be break up between three completely different districts in what Cooper referred to as a "dismembering" of town.

Cooper stated he would have been unlikely to retain his seat contemplating a part of Nashville can be included in his new district, together with parts of 5 different surrounding counties, based on The Related Press.

42 members of Congress have stated they won't search reelection in 2022, made up of 13 Republicans and 29 Democrats following Cooper's Tuesday announcement, based on The Related Press.

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The U.S. Capitol is proven June 5, 2003 in Washington, D.C. Redistricting for Congressional and state legislative districts have led to retirements and battle inside state governments in current months.Stefan Zaklin/Getty Photos

In West Virginia, which misplaced a Congressional seat within the reapportionment following the 2020 Census, three Home seats have change into two in maps that had been permitted in October, based on Politico.

Shortly after the maps had been permitted by the state's legislature, the 2 Republican Home Reps. whose districts had been mixed to make the brand new singular district each introduced they are going to run for the seat.

David McKinley and Alex Mooney will face off within the Republican main, and ultimately one will run for the state's new 2nd District, which makes up the northern portion of West Virginia, Politico reported.

New congressional maps had been debated for 4 hours within the Kansas Home on Tuesday, and a vote is about Wednesday for the controversial maps, the AP reported. The brand new districts would group the northwest Kansas metropolis of Lawrence, which homes the College of Kansas campus and was described as "woke" by Republican lawmakers, with the remainder of the first District which spans a lot of the rural areas of the state to the north and west.

Republicans who drew the maps had been accused by Democratic lawmakers of gerrymandering the state and trying to drown out the political voice of Lawrence with the agricultural areas of the state the place about 70 % of voters selected former President Donald Trump within the 2020 election, the AP reported.

A evaluate of states drawing new maps this 12 months by FiveThirtyEight discovered that states the place one celebration had management of the redistricting course of had been extra prone to lean the districts of their favor, whereas states that used a bipartisan fee had been overwhelmingly extra prone to create fairly honest maps.

Earlier this month, the Ohio Supreme Courtroom rejected new redistricting maps as a result of they closely favored Republicans, and a second draft of the maps was permitted final week by a vote of 5-2 with related objections from Democratic lawmakers, based on The Columbus Dispatch.

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