California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

California voters have approved a new congressional map drawn by state Democrats, NBC News projects, giving the party the chance to gain up to five House seats in next year’s midterm elections and cou

California voters passed Proposition 50 on Tuesday, in a major win for Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats.

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The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.

Prop. 50 is a constitutional amendment that would allow the nation’s most populous state to temporarily stop using a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional district boundaries.

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The most critical win for Democrats' House hopes came in California on Tuesday, when voters approved a ballot measure to allow state lawmakers to adopt a new congressional map that could net the party as many as five new seats, offsetting a comparable move in Texas to benefit Republicans in a nationwide battle over redistricting.

Proposition 50, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democratic Legislature, asked voters to replace the state’s independently drawn congressional districts with new maps

California voters are deciding whether to approve new House maps to push back on Republican moves. Democrats won two governor contests elsewhere: Representative Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey, and in Virginia,