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The Michigan delegation — which includes, from left, Reps. Debbie Dingell, Haley Stevens, Rashida Tlaib and Elissa Slotkin — will have one less member after next year, and an independent commission will draw the new map.

How states losing House seats decide which districts are cut

By Stephanie Akin
Posted April 29, 2021 at 6:15am
Anti-gerrymandering activists rally outside the Supreme Court in March 2018. Litigation over congressional and legislative maps has become commonplace over the past several decades.

Census results start wave of litigation over new maps

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 27, 2021 at 7:09pm
One of the three Republicans in West Virginia’s House delegation, which includes Republicans Carol Miller and David B. McKinley, right, will not return to the chamber in 2023 after the state lost a seat in reapportionment.

8 takeaways from the 2020 census reapportionment of the House

By Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted April 26, 2021 at 6:01pm
A woman uses a fan to cool off while waiting at a Census 2020 booth in Everett, Mass., on July 24, 2020.

Census Bureau to release first set of 2020 results Monday

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 26, 2021 at 7:15am
Josh Silver of the nonpartisan redistricting group RepresentUs says gerrymandering creates an incentive for lawmakers to appeal to extremists by making primaries more important than general elections.

As some states rush to redistrict, gerrymandering fight moves to back burner

By Michael Macagnone
Posted April 15, 2021 at 5:30am
The pandemic and decisions by the Trump administration resulted in data delivery delays by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Census data delay adds to voting advocates’ equitable map woes

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 18, 2021 at 11:51am
A sign urging people to complete the census sits in a planter on Main Street in Roswell, N.M. on Aug. 21. The pandemic has hampered the Census Bureau’s ability to finalize key data needed to redraw congressional and legislative maps.

Census delays could squeeze courts’ review of House maps

By Michael Macagnone
Posted February 12, 2021 at 3:02pm
2020 Census forms.

Census delay sends redistricting ripples nationwide

By Michael Macagnone
Posted January 29, 2021 at 8:07am
Census workers have until the end of October to finish up the 2020 count, according to a judge's order.

Judge orders Census Bureau to keep counting through October

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 25, 2020 at 9:53am
A sign encouraging people to complete the census stands in a Main Street planter in Roswell, N.M. last month. According to an internal Census Bureau document, the fast-tracked timeline threatens the accuracy of the headcount and the time needed afterward to review the information.

Internal Census document: Shorter count risks ‘serious errors’

By Michael Macagnone
Posted September 2, 2020 at 6:55pm