Virginia Democrats are pushing a redistricting bid to increase the numbers of House Democrats in Congress
Virginia Democrat lawmakers and Governor Abigail Spanberger are pushing a redistricting initiative. There are 11 Virginia House representatives in Congress of which 6 are Democrats and 5 are Republican. Virginia lawmakers want to redraw the districts in a way that would give them 10 Democrats to 1 Republican. However, this violates both Virginia law and Virginia’s constitution. Redistricting is supposed to be done by a nonpartisan commission; this was approved by Virginia voters. Virginia lawmakers want to take this ability into their own hands via an April 21, 2026, referendum. If successful, four solid Republican House seats would flip Democrat.
From Fox News:
Democratic state lawmakers in control of the Virginia legislature are fast-tracking a proposed new congressional map that would give the competitive state up to four more left-leaning U.S. House districts in time for this year’s midterm elections.
The map, which Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger is expected to sign early next week, comes as Virginia voters are getting ready to vote this spring on a ballot measure which would give the legislature, rather than the current non-partisan commission, redistricting power through the 2030 election.
Republicans are calling the Democrats’ redistricting effort an “unconstitutional power grab.” Democrats are countering that it’s a necessary step to balance out partisan gerrymandering already implemented in other states by the GOP.
Virginia is the latest battleground, with Florida on deck, in the ongoing high-stakes battle between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats to alter congressional maps ahead of November’s elections.
Republicans are defending their razor-thin House majority in the midterms, and Democrats need a net gain of just three seats to win back control of the chamber. That means the redistricting efforts in Virginia and other states may very well decide which party controls the House next year.
“It’s happening all over the country,” the narrator in a new ad by Virginians for Fair Elections says. “Politicians redrawing maps to rig the midterm elections. And Virginia can’t sit back and do nothing.”
The Democrat-aligned public advocacy group tells Fox News Digital it’s spending an initial seven figures to run the ad statewide in the commonwealth.
The new map, if implemented before the midterms, could give the Democrats a shot at flipping four GOP-held congressional seats, turning a 6-5 edge in the state’s U.S. House delegation into a 10-1 advantage.
Additional Reading:
Steinhauser, P. (2026, February 13). This crucial state is the latest battleground in redistricting war between Trump and Democrats. Fox News. Link.
I’m no math whiz, but if their ratio is 6:5, I’d say your districts are just fine. But, dems gotta have total domination or it’s just not fair.
Voter registration rolls show Democrat 52%, Republican 30%, Unaffiliated 18%. No district has a majority unaffiliated.
I, for one, welcome our new Demotrat Socialist overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted Director of Media Relations I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground cobalt mines!
Used to be the gerrymandering was after the census was run. The Republicans opened fire this time when Texas decided to rerereregerrymander part-way through the decade, and picked up 5 seats BUT multiple Dem states jumped in, ie. Virginia, and it’s gonna be a mess.
In the last five years, Alabama was forced to change their seats to create a “black district” under the Biden administration. New York redistricting was a complete disaster, not even sure what happened there. Oregon State Redrew their maps so that now five out of six their congress members are Democrats from the Portland area while only 32% of the state is Democrat.
That is just for starters.
Don’t believe the hype, Texas in no way started anything.
*Sigh* I hate the demonrats. For all their talk of Democracy, they are the least democratic in this country. I also do hate gerrymandering as in the fight to gain house control, many local voices of the citizenry are being drowned out.