Every 10 years after the Census, states redraw their Congressional districts. ‘Redistricting’ is supposed to keep representation fair as people move about — but these lines can also be drawn to favor one party (‘gerrymandering’). After the 2010 Census Republican governors, state legislators, and commissioners gerrymandered dozens of Congressional districts — and in 2012, although Democratic House candidates got 1.5 million more votes, Republicans won a 33-seat majority. This happened because Republicans drew lines ‘packing’ Democrats into some districts — or ‘cracking’ them across many — to minimize their votes. And these lines will last from 2012-2020.
How can we fix this?
The Supreme Court won’t help, since earlier this year they refused to outlaw partisan gerrymandering. So beyond a big Democratic shift in state legislatures (which draw the lines in most states), it’s up to governors. 34 governors can veto Congressional lines; 26 of those are up in 2018 who will oversee redistricting in 2021. If we elect Democratic governors in these states, they’ll prevent Republican Congressional gerrymandering between 2022-2031: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.
Meet the candidates
Rich Cordray
(Governor)
Betty Sutton
(Lieutenant Governor)
Gretchen Whitmer
(Governor)
Garlin Gilchrist II
(Lieutenant Governor)
Stacey Abrams
(Governor)
Sarah Riggs Amico
(Lieutenant Governor)
Tony Evers
(Governor)
Mandela Barnes
(Lieutenant Governor)
Lupe Valdez
(Governor)
Mike Collier
(Lieutenant Governor)
Andrew Gillum
(Governor)
Chris King
(Lieutenant Governor)
Find your candidate
- Alabama : Walt Maddox (G) & Will Boyd (LG)
- Alaska : Mark Begich (G) & Byron Mallot (LG)
- Arizona : David Garcia (G)
- Arkansas : Jared Henderson (G) & Anthony Bland (LG)
- California : Gavin Newsom (G) & Eleni Kounalakis (LG) or Ed Hernandez (LG)
- Colorado : Jared Polis (G) & Dianne Primavera (LG)
- Connecticut : Ned Lamont (G) & Susan Bysiewicz (LG)
- Hawaii : David Ige (G) & Josh Green (LG)
- Idaho : Paulette Jordan (G) & Kristin Collum (LG)
- Illinois : J.B. Pritzker (G) & Juliana Stratton (LG)
- Iowa : Fred Hubbell (G) & Rita Hart (LG)
- Kansas : Laura Kelly (G) & Lynn Rogers (LG)
- Maine : Janet Mills (G)
- Maryland : Ben Jealous (G) & Susie Turnbull (LG)
- Massachusetts : Jay Gonzalez (G) & Quentin Palfrey (LG)
- Minnesota : Tim Walz (G) & Peggy Flanagan (LG)
- Nebraska : Bob Krist (G)
- Nevada : Steve Sisolak (G) & Kate Marshall (LG)
- New Hampshire: Molly Kelly (G)
- New Mexico : Michelle Lujan Grisham (G) & Howie Morales (LG)
- New York : Andrew Cuomo (G) & Kathy Hochul (LG)
- Oklahoma : Drew Edmondson (G) &
- Anastasia Pittman (LG)
- Oregon : Kate Brown (G)
- Pennsylvania : Tom Wolf (G) & John Fetterman (LG)
- Rhode Island : Gina Raimondo (G) & Dan McKee (LG)
- South Carolina : James Smith (G) & Mandy Powers Norrell (LG)
- South Dakota : Billie Sutton (G) & Michelle Laallee (LG)
- Tennessee : Karl Dean (G)
- Vermont : Cristine Hallquist (G) & David Zuckerman (LG)