Republicans lost a bid for another House seat after Missouri voters rejected a map redrawing Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s Kansas City district, according to an Associated Press race call.
Missouri Republicans passed the plan in 2025. It changed the Kansas City district held by Cleaver as part of a bid to add another seat to the party’s House delegation.
Missouri’s highest court found the map ineligible for use in the midterms, NPR reported. NPR said the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that state decision before voters decided the ballot question. The Associated Press also called Cleaver’s reelection on Nov. 3.
The rejected map came amid a broader effort to revise House districts between census cycles. President Donald Trump urged states to revisit their boundaries to improve Republican prospects ahead of the midterms, NPR reported.
EconoTimes previously covered Texas voters’ first general election under a new congressional map.
Reuters reported that Texas changed its congressional map in 2025 after Trump pushed Republicans to contest Democratic-held districts; California Democrats later drew new boundaries aimed at seats held by Republicans.
Justice Elena Kagan has said partisan mapmaking can deny voters equal political influence, according to EconoTimes’ earlier coverage of her criticism of partisan maps. She has also called efforts to turn politically mixed states into one-party strongholds destructive to democracy.
