Indiana Senate Rejects Congressional Redistricting 31 to 19, With 21 Republicans Voting No
The Indiana Senate in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, voted 31 to 19 on December 11 to reject House Bill 1032, ending the push to redraw the state's congressional districts ahead of the 2026 elections. Voting against the bill were 21 Republican senators and all 10 Democratic senators, while the 19 votes in favor were all Republican; Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and several members of the Republican leadership were among those voting no.
The proposed map, unveiled on December 1, had passed the Indiana House on December 5 by a vote of 57 to 41. It was designed to turn the state's current delegation of seven Republican and two Democratic House seats into a 9-to-0 Republican sweep, splitting up the 1st and 7th districts held by Democratic Representatives Frank Mrvan and Andre Carson.
Governor Mike Braun had called the legislature into special session on October 27 to take up the mid-decade redistricting, and the White House had pressed the issue for months, with President Trump repeatedly urging Indiana Republicans in public to pass the new map. On the day of the vote, the president's eldest son wrote on social media that if Indiana Republicans sided with the opponents of redistricting, he would spend a lot of time in Indiana the following year campaigning against every one of them.
Speaking to reporters after the vote, Bray said Indiana Republican senators wanted the party to keep its majority on Capitol Hill, but many in the caucus were not convinced that redrawing the map mid-cycle would guarantee that outcome. Because a constitutional majority voted against the measure, it cannot be taken up again until the 2027 session. Indiana thereby became the first Republican-led state legislature to vote down Trump's mid-decade redistricting demand.
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Source: Indiana General Assembly
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