[OC] Die meisten Wähler beider Parteien wollen Gerrymandering beenden. Im Kongress haben 201 von 260 Demokraten und einer von 274 Republikanern einen Gesetzentwurf zur Neuverteilung der Wahlbezirke unterzeichnet.

OC here. How this was built, and two caveats that change how you read the bars.

The congressional numbers are not a survey. They are sitting members of the 119th Congress and their own cosponsorship signatures on bills mandating independent redistricting commissions, from the [congress.gov](http://congress.gov) API. 201 of 260 Democrats, 1 of 274 Republicans. The one Republican is Brian Fitzpatrick, as sponsor.

Caveat one: not all of the 201 are current. Only 67 of those Democratic signatures are on a bill in this Congress. The other 134 are cosponsorships of H.R. 1 and S. 2747 in 2021, both since dead. I count them because a signature is a position on the record, but if you think a 2021 signature should not weigh the same as a 2025 one, the Democratic bar should read shorter to you.

Caveat two: the poll question is close to the reform but not identical. Noble Predictive Insights asked whether one-party control of district lines is bad for the country; the reform mandates independent commissions. The same poll found 77% for commissions over state legislators, but only the first question has a party breakout, so the chart uses that one. It was commissioned by Common Cause, an advocacy organization. Weigh it accordingly.

The standing caveat: a cosponsorship records a yes and can never record a no. There is no „opposes“ in this data, so 273 Republicans are absent from that bar, not opposed on it.

Why didn’t Democrats do it when they ran everything? House Democrats passed it in 2021, 220 to 210, every Republican against. It died on a 50-50 Senate cloture vote, ten short of the 60 needed, and Senators Manchin and Sinema would not vote to end the filibuster to move it. A real constraint, and also a choice. Worth adding: redistricting reform went on the ballot in five states in 2018 and passed in all five, and legislators in two of them rolled it back.

Data: cosponsorship records from the congress.gov API. Poll is Noble Predictive Insights for Common Cause, Sept 2025, n=2,016. Rendered with React and next/og. All 201 names and the sources: https://projectcuria.com/reforms/end-gerrymandering

Yeah because the GOP knows they won’t win elections without their stupid gerrymandered voting districts.

CA Dems ran on Prop 50.  The DNC absolutely wants gerrymandering on the west coast.

Because that 57% never make their Republican representatives pay any penalty for their transparently awful behavior.

So, the republicans don’t represent their own voter base?

Oh they started putting forth single issue bills now?

I see stuff in here about the voting rights act and race, which makes me think in practice this will be to end *political* gerrymandering, and not racial gerrymandering. Albeit I think Trump has already tried/is attempting to do the latter.

I mean, if we want to say no Gerrymandering I think that would be great, I don’t want to see “no gerrymandering unless it’s for what I deem to be a good reason cuz racism”.

Apparently ChatGPT agrees with my interpretation of the bill:
**“Racial gerrymandering: No, it does not prohibit all race-conscious districting**
In fact, Section 103 makes compliance with the **Voting Rights Act of 1965** one of the highest-priority criteria.
The ranked criteria require that districts:
satisfy the Constitution’s population equality requirements;
comply with the Voting Rights Act; and
ensure that protected racial and language minority groups have a practical ability to elect their preferred candidates, even when they are not a numerical majority.
The bill also defines „communities of interest“ to include shared:
ethnic,
racial,
cultural,
Indian,
economic,
geographic, and
historic identities,
while expressly stating that **political parties and political candidates are not communities of interest”**

So not entirely surprising no republicans signed on. But it’s nice fodder for riling up the Democrat base and getting them mad at the GOP.

hate takes like this. just because that bill „ended Jerry“ doesn’t mean it didn’t have some other unpalatable thing Republicans would never cosign. you can call a bill anything you want

You forgot the follow up: How much do you care? Because every time an issue like this has broad bi-partisan support yet their own party doesn’t vote for it, nobody is willing to vote for the other guys to force this issue.