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Independent Redistricting Commission

Dec 28, 2021

Analysts: new map favors GOP

Some new analysis of the just-adopted congressional districts underlines how much Democrats stand to lose if the lines remain as they are now. 

Dec 23, 2021

IRC approves congressional maps

The Independent Redistricting Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to approve new lines for congressional races through the 2030 election. 

Dec 23, 2021

Redistricting panel finishes legislative maps

Members of the Independent Redistricting Commission voted Wednesday 3-2 to adopt maps that are likely to preserve the Republican edge in the Arizona Legislature for the rest of the decade. 

Dec 20, 2021

Redistricting panel gets partisan

Partisan members of the Independent Redistricting Commission are making last-minute efforts to craft maps that would help their political parties through the 2030 election. 

Dec 13, 2021

IRC on track to turn southern AZ congressional district red

The Independent Redistricting Commission is moving to give Republicans an edge in electing members of Congress for the coming decade. 

Dec 6, 2021

Redistricting commission grapples with maps

Members of the Independent Redistricting Commission appear ready to recraft proposed congressional maps to help keep more of Tucson together and separate the largely non-Hispanic areas of Yuma from the rest of the city. 

Oct 29, 2021

Commission approves draft legislative and congressional maps

Despite concerns of Democrats on the panel, the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a map that would give Republicans an edge in electing members of the legislature for the balance of the decade. And at least part of that is because they voted to create a legislative district in Pima […]

Oct 26, 2021

Redistricting panel draws closer to final maps

The Independent Redistricting Commission is circling in on what could decide the political future of Arizona for the rest of the decade. 

Oct 12, 2021

Group gives redistricting panel’s efforts high marks – so far

It's still a work in progress. But an organization that studies the fairness of political redistricting plans nationwide likes some of what it sees developing here.

Oct 7, 2021

Redistricting panel’s software frustrates public

The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission made its first revisions to preliminary legislative and congressional maps earlier this week, but some members of the public continue to struggle to provide input because they can’t figure out the commission’s mapping software. 

Sep 15, 2021

Redistricting panel OKs starting-point grid map

The Arizona commission charged with redrawing maps for congressional and legislative districts every decade approved its basic starting-point grid maps September 14, kicking off a months-long process with huge political implications where the boundaries will be heavily tweaked before being finalized.

Aug 6, 2021

Making competitive political districts ‘complicated’

The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission will as soon as August 10 decide the metrics it will use to determine “competitiveness” of the new congressional and legislative districts.