Two Midwestern states have new redistricting laws in place. Minnesota’s partisan divide will require some kind of agreement between the two parties for a redistricting map to pass the Legislature, while in Wisconsin, any plan passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature could be vetoed by Democratic Gov. (Though the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature is nonpartisan, a majority of the senators are Republican the GOP also controls the governor’s office.) In the Midwest, the decennial redistricting process will be controlled by Democrats in Illinois and by Republicans in Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.

congressional and state legislative districts). State legislative races held in the first year of a new decade go a long way toward determining which party will redraw the nation’s political maps (U.S. Republicans will control redistricting in majority of Midwest’s states Minnesota remains the only state in the nation with a divided partisan Legislature Democrats control the House and Republicans the Senate.Ģ. Republicans continue to have majorities (sometimes super-majorities) in all of the other partisan legislative chambers in the Midwest. Democrats maintained control of the Illinois House and Senate as well as the Minnesota House. Only two states in the Midwest had gubernatorial races this year, but control of 19 of the region’s 20 partisan legislative chambers was at stake (there were no elections in the Michigan Senate). Burgum’s margin of victory was the largest of any gubernatorial candidate in the nation this year he received close to 70 percent of the vote in North Dakota. Doug Burgum (both Republicans) in the Midwest. governors seeking re-election won their races, including Indiana Gov. One of the striking results of the November 2020 elections was how little changed at the state level, in terms of partisan control of legislatures and governors’ offices. Status quo: Incumbent governors win handily, no legislative chambers flip

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