When Congress passes the Fair Representation Act, most states will create new congressional district maps.
States with 5 representatives or fewer would not need districts. They would elect all representatives statewide using proportional ranked choice voting.
States with 6+ representatives would create multi-winner congressional districts with three, four, or five representatives per district. To show what these districts might look like, FairVote created a sample map for each state. We followed the same map-drawing criteria specified in the Fair Representation Act.
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National Impact
We project an equal share of seats for Republicans and Democrats
Every multi-member district would elect members of both parties
Black voters would have power-to-elect in 26% of districts (compared to 5% now)
Most districts would contain a “toss-up” seat
Latino voters would have power-to-elect in 22% of districts (compared to 6% now)
Asian American voters would have power-to-elect in 5% of districts (compared to less than 1% now)
The FRA in Your State
These are just sample maps. When the FRA passes, final maps will be drawn by each state according to a set of uniform national redistricting rules.
Further reading on Fair Representation Act maps
Why three -and five-member districts are ideal for The Fair Representation Act​
A white paper from FairVote explaining why the FRA prioritizes some district magnitudes over others.
How We Drew Fair Congressional Maps For the Whole Nation
A blog post explaining how FairVote created new sample congressional districts, following the Fair Representation Act’s map-drawing criteria.