New district boundaries, drawn up by a professor in California, could put six Republican-held seats into Democratic hands
VIRGINIA’S HOUSE OF DELEGATES has been under Republican control since 2000. But Democrats could take it back this November thanks in part to the musings of an academic in California.
Democrats need only two seats in the House and two in the Virginia Senate, which also will be decided in November, to take back the legislature and give the party complete control of state government for the first time since 1993. Mr Grofman’s map could line up six Republican-held House seats for Democrats, who hope that distaste for President Donald Trump will offset the scandals enveloping their governor, lieutenant-governor and attorney-general.
Then, Democrats had alleged that the African-American population of the state’s only majority-black congressional district had been intentionally inflated by Republicans to shield a potentially vulnerable white Republican incumbent in a district south of Richmond. The court sided with Democrats, as did the Supreme Court when Republicans appealed. Because of a parliamentary stand-off between Mr McAuliffe and the legislature, Republicans were denied a chance to redraw the offending district.
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