Pennsylvania state legislative districts and Pittsburgh Public Schools districts must be redrawn every 10 years based on U.S. Census data.
Matt Rourke
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AP
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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Pennsylvania’s highest court is signaling that it may get involved in the process of redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional district boundaries. -
Teams representing top lawmakers and average Pennsylvanians widely agree on the basics of a good map but differ on how to weigh factors like partisan fairness. -
A Pennsylvania judge is undertaking a review of competing proposals for the state's redistricted congressional maps. -
In his veto message, the Democratic governor said the map failed “the test of fundamental fairness.” -
A statewide court has at least a dozen different proposed maps of Pennsylvania’s congressional district boundaries to consider, now that Gov. Tom Wolf and lawmakers appear hopelessly deadlocked. -
Those in charge of drawing the state’s congressional and legislative maps have blown the Wolf administration’s Jan. 24 deadline for final versions. -
With only a handful of session days remaining before the Jan. 30 deadline imposed by Pa. Commonwealth Court, the Republican-controlled state Senate is trying to cobble together a compromise between their own members, the GOP-controlled House, and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. -
A statewide court is giving lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf a deadline of Jan. 30 to break a stalemate around redrawing Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of demographic shifts. -
There’s a little-known federal law that says if a state can’t draw a new congressional map in time for elections, every single candidate for congress has to run statewide. It’s unlikely to ever be used, but it’s a hot topic in Pennsylvania, as lawmakers remain deadlocked on a congressional map and the deadline approaches. -
A plan to redraw lines for Pennsylvania’s congressional districts to account for a decade of population shifts is advancing in the Legislature with a partisan vote that signals lawmakers have more redistricting work ahead.
