The Fight for Fair Maps

The Fight for Fair Maps
By
Miles Kirkpatrick
Published on 4 August 2025

North Carolina is a firmly purple state, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from our congressional delegation. Despite regularly electing Democrats to statewide offices, Republicans dominate our House congressional races, with Cook predicting they will safely win 10 of our 14 House seats again in 2026.

Republicans’ electoral success isn’t because North Carolina voters strongly prefer Republican representatives, but because the Republican Party has drawn our House districts to ensure they win most of them through a process known as gerrymandering. Currently, aggrieved individuals, the NAACP, and Common Cause are suing over these maps; however, current precedents make it nearly impossible to get the maps discarded.

Both Speaker Destin Hall and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger were named in suits (that eventually consolidated into Williams v. Hall) alleging the 2023 congressional, State House, and State Senate maps had illegally gerrymandered districts. The trial concluded on July 9th, featuring testimony from black community leaders about how the maps divided black communities across the state. The challenged maps will be used in the 2024 election regardless of the decision.

Gerrymandering is the intentional drawing of legislative district maps to influence the results of an election. In North Carolina, where the state legislature draws both its own districts and congressional districts, Republican legislators can (and do) draw districts that favor themselves and their party. North Carolina Republicans have a storied history of gerrymandering that we have discussed previously, including how it drives extremism and how Republicans gerrymandered the 2024 State House and Senate maps.
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Much more with hot links here:
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