redistricting

Newly drawn house and senate districts, were thought to give Montana Democrats the potential to pick up 10 new seats in the House. With finalized results from a recount done December 2nd , they pick up all ten.

The most contentious debate between commissioners and the public has come down to whether the two districts should be politically competitive and how to define compactness.

The commission in charge of drawing Montana’s new political boundaries remains stuck in a deadlock over how to split the state into two congressional districts.

In a few months, Montana’s Districting and Apportionment Commission will finalize the state’s new maps outlining political districts. To kick things off, they’re looking at map submissions from the public.

Last week the U.S. Census Bureau published more granular data on Montana’s demographic changes. That information will be used to delineate the boundaries of the state’s two new future districts. The officials in charge of that job met Tuesday to establish an official timeline.