(NewsNation) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to respond to President Donald Trump’s redistricting efforts with one of his own will go before voters Tuesday.
Dubbed the “Election Rigging Response Act,” and spearheaded by Newsom and the Democratic state legislature of California, the measure, if passed, would establish a new congressional map for the next three election cycles, potentially flipping as many as five U.S. House seats into Democratic control.
Proposition 50 is Newsom’s effort to dull the effect of Republican efforts to redraw maps before the 2026 midterms to flip blue districts in red states — Texas, Ohio, Utah, Missouri, North Carolina and Indiana have all commenced or announced plans.
Democrats currently control 43 of California’s 52 U.S. House seats and Prop 50 could help them pick up five additional seats.
A “yes” vote would approve a new U.S. House map already passed by the state’s Democrat-controlled Legislature, circumventing districts adopted by an independent citizens commission after the 2020 census.
Supporters of the measure saw it as a chance to beat Republicans at their own game — using redistricting to counter what they saw as partisan gerrymandering.
Critics of Prop. 50 argued that it would dismantle safeguards designed to keep elections fair, a power grab that shifts redistricting control from citizens to politicians.
Polls close in California at 11 p.m. ET Tuesday. See the results of California’s Proposition 50 redistricting effort in the tracker below:
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