The new Indiana congressional map passed a critical vote on Monday and advanced through the Indiana Senate Elections Committee.
The committee voted 6-3 to advance the map, which is expected to give Republicans a 9-0 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation.
There’s still uncertainty that the map will pass a full Senate vote.
🚨Just in: The Indiana Senate Elections Committee has officially passes the new congressional map for 2026 in a 6-3 vote
This will now go before the full Senate for a vote
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Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray (R) has repeatedly said the upper chamber does not have enough Republicans supporting the measure for the map to pass, but Monday’s committee action marked the clearest sign yet that GOP leaders may still attempt to force a floor showdown later this week.
While states normally update their congressional maps once a decade following the census, Trump, facing ever uglier polling figures, ignited a mid-decade redistricting war over the summer, saying Republicans were “entitled” to five more seats in Texas. GOP lawmakers there quickly obliged, as they did in Missouri and North Carolina. But Indiana Republicans have resisted the call, leaving the ultimate outcome of this redistricting fight uncertain.
At least 16 of the 40 Republicans in the Senate could join with the chamber’s 10 Democrats to vote no — GOP Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith could break a 25-25 tie.
After the Supreme Court upheld a new Texas congressional map likely to result in five additional GOP-held House seats, passage of the Indiana map would be another boost for Republicans going into the 2026 midterms.
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Some of those Republican senators who voted yes had not said publicly before Monday where they stood. They made it clear their vote Monday night didn’t necessarily indicate how they’d be voting when the bill got in front of the full Senate.
Elections Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Gaskill (R-District 25) said he supports redistricting.
“I can mention many other states, I think somewhere between 15 and 20 seats, additional seats Republicans could have today if there were fair maps in other states. This is a very small part we can play and rebalance the scales on a national basis,” Gaskill said.
One Republican senator crossed the aisle to vote no on passing the bill forward.
Sen. Greg Walker (R- District 41) has been a no on redistricting since August and made it clear Monday, that’s where he still stood.
Walker referenced the Senate’s ethics rules prohibiting lawmakers from being influenced by outside offers and read from those rules, saying, “If the senator determines that by acceptance of the offer, the senator’s independent judgment may be affected, the senator shall refuse the offer. That’s a shall and that’s in our rules.”