The Associated Press reports that according to an independent analysis, most of the newly ordered maps redrawing Wisconsin’s political boundaries for the state Legislature would keep Republicans in majority control, but their dominance would be reduced.
Seven sets of new state Senate and Assembly maps were submitted on Friday, the deadline given by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to propose new maps after it ruled three weeks ago that the current ones drawn by Republicans were unconstitutional.
The ruling stands to shake up battleground Wisconsin’s political landscape in a presidential election year.
The analysis shows that the Assembly maps would keep a Republican majority ranging from as low as one seat to as high as the current 29-seat margin. Republicans only addressed the contiguity issue in their maps, resulting in fewer changed boundary lines than other proposals.
In the Senate, five of the seven submitted plans would maintain the Republican majority, according to the analysis. It would range from one seat, under plans from Evers and Law Forward, to 13 seats under the Republican map.
The maps proposed by Senate Democrats and a redistricting consultant who intervened in the case would give Democrats a narrow majority of either three seats or one seat.
