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Latest Fact-Checks In Redistricting

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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2025 a podcast episode
“Democrats have voted for national independent redistricting. Republicans have not.”
Mostly True
By Loreben Tuquero • August 21, 2025
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on September 15, 2023 News release
Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed."
Mostly True
By Vanessa Swales • December 22, 2023
Eric Ager
Eric Ager
stated on October 24, 2023 a speech on the house floor
“This map was drawn entirely in secret by an Ohio consultant … with taxpayer dollars.”
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • November 15, 2023
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on July 28, 2017 in a newsletter
Last year, Democrats won nearly 50% of the vote, yet they hold only 38% of the seats in the state House and 30% of the seats in the state Senate.
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • August 9, 2017
Dave Hansen
Dave Hansen
stated on March 5, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.
Mostly True
March 17, 2017
Common Cause
Common Cause
stated on July 19, 2016 an online video ad
"Half of all NC legislative candidates are unopposed because of gerrymandering."
Mostly True
By Will Doran • August 9, 2016
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on November 4, 2013 a guest lecture
"During the last election, Democrats won over a million votes more than Republicans, but because of the way districts are designed, the Republicans got 33 more members of the House of Representatives than the Democrats did."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 26, 2013
Protect Your Vote Ohio
Protect Your Vote Ohio
stated on August 1, 2012 a news release
"Thousands of politicians from across Ohio – along with their relatives, employees and friends – are still eligible to serve" on the proposed redistricting commission.
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • August 9, 2012
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez
stated on May 30, 2012 an email to PolitiFact Texas.
Says no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2012
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on April 14, 2012 a TV interview.
Says he represents or has represented about half the San Antonio-rooted district in which he seeks election.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 17, 2012
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 28, 2012 remarks to the press
"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2012
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on December 5, 2011 an email blast.
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on November 3, 2011 an interview with Ohio Capital Blog’s Marc Kovac
"The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 14, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 14, 2011 an email to supporters
"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • October 21, 2011
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on September 15, 2011 a news conference
Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District "you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls."
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • October 5, 2011
Nina Perales
Nina Perales
stated on May 31, 2011 a press release.
Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2011