The Indiana Senate voted 31-19 to defeat a mid-census redistricting map Thursday, ending a months-long effort by the Trump administration to shift Indiana’s congressional districts.

Normally, federal congressional districts are redrawn after each decennial census and then remain in place until after the next decennial census.  Largely

Twenty-one Republican state senators joined Democrats senators to defeat Indiana's proposal to redraw the state's congressional districts mid-decade.

By: Leslie Bonilla Muñiz Indiana Capital Chronicle For The Republic INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana Democrat on Monday filed a bill to ban early redistricting as Republicans heed President Donald Trump’s call for a 9-0 sweep of the state’s congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

The current trend of redistricting mid-cycle began in July when President Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw its map to help his party keep control of Congress, though the president's directive wasn't the first time maps have been remade halfway through the decade.

Some Republicans only want citizens included in population counts used to draw political districts. In Texas, that raises questions about representation.

Francie Hunt, executive director of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, sought an expedited ruling from the state Supreme Court in 2023 for her challenge against the new Senate districts. She lives in a part of Davidson County that was placed into Senate District 17 along with the entirety of Wilson County in the redistricted Senate map.

I was honored to serve on Indiana’s Election and Reapportionment Committee in 2011 as a state representative for District 74. As an engineer and data geek, I believed I could be helpful in creating and ensuring fair, representative districts across Indiana.

Judge Christopher Limbaugh ruled the Missouri General Assembly had the authority to redraw Missouri's congressional districts this year.

Indiana State Senate rejected a mid-cycle redistricting proposal that would have substantially redrawn Indiana’s congressional districts and perhaps given Republicans an opportunity to secure all nine congressional districts in the 2026 midterm elections.