Utah judge rejects Republican congressional map in win for Democrats

 

In 2026, Democrats need to flip only three seats won by Republicans last year to take control of the U.S. House.

WASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A Utah judge has thrown out a new U.S. congressional map passed by the Republican-led legislature in favor of an alternative that appears likely to result in flipping one of the state’s four U.S. House seats to Democrats in next year’s midterms.

In a decision late on Monday night, District Judge Dianna Gibson called the legislative map an "extreme partisan outlier" that illegally gave Republicans an advantage. The Republican-drawn plan split Salt Lake County, where most of the state’s Democrats reside, in half.