Redistricting usually happens every ten years, but a mid-decade fight over congressional maps before the 2026 election is underway.

Michigan has an independent redistricting process, and it would require a constitutional amendment to change it.

In Michigan's divided state government, it's highly unlikely lawmakers would come together to try to take back control of the redistricting process.

Michigan is a political battleground, but the state will likely stay out of the redistricting war threatening to upend the congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

In fact, Michigan's swing state status has yielded divided state government, essentially taking it out of a fight in which one-party rule is a kind of precondition for participation.

The process of drawing new voting distr

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