Pennsylvania state legislative districts and Pittsburgh Public Schools districts must be redrawn every 10 years based on U.S. Census data.
Democrats in Pennsylvania who've long blamed their party’s legislative minorities on Republican gerrymandering are about to find out whether friendlier district maps will edge them closer to retaking control of the House and Senate.
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The state Supreme Court is now tasked with deciding how to divide Pennsylvania into 17 Congressional districts for the next decade.
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Legislative districts are reshaped and where some see a threat to the Latino electorate, others see opportunity.
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A new legal filing claims redrawn district maps for the state House of Representatives improperly carved up a western Pennsylvania county.
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The map could make small changes to the partisan composition of the chamber while improving traditional metrics.
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A Commonwealth Court judge charged with recommending a new Pennsylvania congressional map has selected a plan that Republican state lawmakers drew, and that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf already vetoed.
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While a top Republican claimed the creation of more Democratic-leaning seats was done for political reasons, nonpartisan metrics show the map better reflects the partisan makeup of the state.
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Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court will consider a new map of congressional districts being recommended by a lower court judge who picked a proposal favored by top Republican lawmakers, but opposed by Democrats. The map recommended Monday by Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, a Republican, came from a pool of more than a dozen submitted to the court
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The five-member commission redrawing the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s state legislative districts voted to approve new maps for the next decade, with a focus on the state’s fast-growing Latino population that could change the face of the predominantly white House and Senate.
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The Democratic leader of the Pennsylvania Senate says minor changes have been made to the preliminary redistricting maps that were approved by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission in December.
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Pennsylvania’s Democratic-majority Supreme Court is taking control of choosing new district lines for the state’s shrinking congressional delegation.