A Utah judge late Monday rejected a congressional map that state Republican lawmakers had passed last month and ordered the adoption of a new map before next year’s midterm elections that is likely to give Democrats a U.S. House seat.

The ruling is a win for Democrats, who have not won a House seat in the conservative state since 2021, and a blow for Republicans in the broader national redistricting battle between the parties ahead of next year’s midterms. Lawmakers in Republican and Democratic-led states have looked in recent months for opportunities to gain seats as Republicans try to defend a very narrow U.S. House majority.

The new map in Utah keeps most of heavily Democratic Salt Lake County within a single district, rather than divide it into four districts as it is currently.

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