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SALEM, Ore. — On Monday night, Gov. Kate Brown (D-Ore.) signed off on the first congressional map in the nation to be implemented in the 2022 election cycle.
Oregon’s redistricting process is controlled by their Democrat-run state legislature — the map , which shores up vulnerable Democrat Reps. Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and Kurt Schrader (OR-05), was also initially slated to gerrymander the state’s new 6th district, gained as a result of the 2020 census, in favor of Democrats.
The end result would have been a map that would hand five out of six districts to Democrats — the current district boundaries only leave Democrats with two safe seats out of five.
However, after a walkout by Oregon Senate Republicans, Democrats made a minor concession by relocating Schrader to the 6th district, which still remains a solidly blue district in suburban Portland, with the 5th now hosting a largely competitive seat comprising the exurbs of Portland and Salem.
POLITICO reports : Oregon on Monday became the first state to redraw its congressional map for the next decade, passing a plan that creates four Democratic districts, a safe Republican seat and one potential battleground.
The new map marked the end of a bitter partisan standoff. State House Speaker Tina Kotek, a Democrat, gaveled the legislature into session on Monday morning, hours before a redistricting deadline, after a nearly weeklong delay caused by a Covid scare and a Republican boycott. The agreement: Republican state representatives returned, and in return Democrats did not muscle through a map that would have given them solid control of five of the state’s six districts.
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The compromise map passed the state House on Monday afternoon in a 33-16 vote, and the state Senate concurred in an 18-6 vote. Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signed the bill into law late Monday. The independent commission appointed in Colorado, a state that will also be gaining a seat next year, has also finalized a map that will be sent to the state’s Supreme Court on Oct. 1 for approval. The proposed map draws all seven of Colorado’s incumbent representatives (4 Democrats, 3 Republicans) into […]
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