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The draft maps will serve as the baseline for final maps lawmakers will attempt to pass through the Legislature and send to the governor's desk by Sept. 27, after much public and private debate.
In Oregon, all Senate districts must contain exactly two House districts. Lawmakers are directed to draw districts that are contiguous, meaning they can’t be made up of disconnected parts.
A handful of senators talk on the floor of the Oregon State Senate on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021, as the Oregon Legislature conducted a special session to consider redistricting.
New state legislative and congressional maps passed the Oregon Legislature Monday after House Republicans ended their one-day boycott and returned to the chamber despite lingering concerns over ...
Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state's contentous wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas ...
Members of the Oregon Legislature have started the once-per-decade process of redrawing the state's congressional and legislative district boundaries.
A leading proposal to redraw Oregon’s congressional district lines boiled over into partisan acrimony as Democrats aim to force through a new map that would virtually lock in control of five of ...
Former Secretary of State Bev Clarno was among Republicans challenging Oregon's new congressional districts. Clarno and other petitioners declined to appeal their case to the state supreme court.
The map, released Friday, would pack of the state’s most heavily Republican areas into one district and spread Democratic voters among the other five in a way that all of them would lean Democratic.
Leaders of the Oregon Legislature prevailed Friday in their legal quest for the right to redraw the district boundaries of the state’s 90 House and Senate seats. In a unanimous ruling Friday ...
Oregon Senate District 29 spans Wallowa, Union, Umatilla, Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman and parts of Wasco, Jefferson, Marion and Clackamas counties. Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena , is not running for ...