We just got a huge redistricting win for Republicans in Louisiana!
On Thursday, we brought you the news that the Louisiana House had passed the state’s new, fair congressional map that eliminates a racially-gerrymandered district.
If you missed it, here’s the scoop on that:
Now, the new Louisiana congressional map has been made official!
It passed in the Senate on Friday before being signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry.
Check it out:
The new map eliminates one of the state's two Democrat districts.
It will likely add one more Republican seat this November.
Here's a closer look at the old vs. new map:
BREAKING — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed the new 5R-1D congressional map into law.
The map will be used for the 2026 midterms.
🔴 +1 GOP
🔵 -1 DEM pic.twitter.com/QJGAlwhv9j— VoteHub (@VoteHub) May 29, 2026
This is just the latest in a series of major redistricting victories for Republicans.
After the Supreme Court ruled that racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional last month, several red states have drawn up new, fair maps for midterms.
AP reported further:
Louisiana enacted a new map of congressional districts Friday that is designed to help Republicans pick up a seat while eliminating one of the state’s two majority-Black House districts, both of which are represented by Democrats.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed the plan hours after it overwhelmingly passed the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature.
Approval of the new House map came a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s current map — with its two majority-Black districts — as an illegal racial gerrymander, weakening the landmark 1965 federal Voting Rights Act. That decision intensified a national redistricting battle fueled by President Donald Trump’s efforts to protect Republicans’ slim U.S. House majority in the midterm elections. Louisiana is one of several Southern states now redrawing their maps to help Republicans.
Louisiana Republicans had considered drawing a map giving the party a shot at winning all six of the state’s U.S. House seats. But that would have required adding more registered Democrats to Republican-held districts, potentially backfiring with GOP losses.
The map approved Friday in a 28-10 state Senate vote along party lines reflected Republican arguments that a 5-1 map is safer for the GOP and better protects U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson from facing a difficult reelection. Republicans currently hold four of Louisiana’s six congressional seats...
In the weeks following the Supreme Court’s decision, several other Republican-controlled Southern states have seized upon a weakened federal Voting Rights Act to try to redraw their own congressional districts.
So far, Republicans are winning the redistricting contest. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they will win a narrowly divided U.S. House in November. Republicans think they could gain as many as 15 seats from their redistricting efforts so far, while Democrats think they could gain six seats from new districts in California and Utah.
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