Congressional and legislative districts were redrawn last year following the passage of Prop 2.
Abortion on the ballot and the popularity of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is taking much of the credit forWhat happened:
Redistricting reform leveled the playing field, Nancy Wang, director of Voters Not Politicians, tells Axios. When people turned out and chose the candidates of their choice, that choice was actually reflected in the results, she says. "What we've seen in the last decade is more democratic votes actually being cast, but then because of gerrymandering those votes didn't translate to seats.
Black Democrats from around Detroit sued the commission, casting the new maps which shrunk the number of Black seats as "racial gerrymandering" that reduced the voting power of minority racial groups.
Wang thinks Republicans were able to hold legislative control for four decades not because they had more support, but "because the Republican Party had gerrymandered and rigged our elections from the start, so that they were assured of getting the majority regardless of how many Democratic voters showed up," Wang says.The effects of the new maps were perhaps best highlighted in my hometown, Midland and Bay counties.
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