It’s too early to know how many female representatives were hurt by the once-a-decade redistricting because multiple states haven’t finalized their maps.
Rep. Marie Newman, D-Ill., speaks with supporters at a campaign fundraiser May 9, 2022, in Chicago. The first-term Democrat is among the women members of the U.S. House of Representatives whose reelection bid grew more difficult due to the drawing of new congressional boundaries, known as redistricting.
The new maps mean some female representatives are seeking reelection against longer-serving incumbent men — or against each other, such as in Georgia’s Tuesday primary, where two Democratic female incumbents are facing off. Ultimately, the new maps will be a factor in whether women maintain or grow their numbers in the next Congress to more accurately reflect the makeup of the country, a goal members of both parties have concentrated on.
In Illinois, which lost a seat in redistricting because of its shrinking population, the state’s two first-term female representatives — one Democrat, one Republican — were among the 18-member delegation’s biggest losers in the state’s remapping. Newman’s home, and the area immediately around it where she performed her best in 2020, were drawn into the heavily Hispanic district represented by Democratic Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. That, Newman said, “I took personal.”
“You can’t have an unqualified person in there. But if there’s a qualified woman, I think you really have to look at that and say, ‘We need more of a women’s voice in Congress, period,’” said Newman, who recently released a campaign ad in which she discusses having an abortion at age 19. “I am very confident if there were another 50 to 100 women in Congress and in the Senate, we would not be in this situation ... would have been codified and unoverturnable.
Another female Republican, first-term Rep. Yvette Herrell of New Mexico, also was the victim of a partisan remap as Democrats who control the Legislature redrew her district in the southern part of the state to be significantly more Democratic.
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