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In a Fox News interview, House Speaker Mike Johnson was spinning the facts when he claimed Republicans would have won a larger majority in the House in the 2024 election if not for Democrats’ gerrymandering of districts.
Johnson failed to mention that many states with Republican legislative majorities also gerrymander districts for partisan advantage. The net effect of redistricting did not give the Democrats a large advantage, experts told us, with most of them saying the Republicans benefited more than Democrats.
Redistricting is based on the decennial census, which counts the nation’s population every 10 years, as required by the Constitution. After the 2020 census, states with more than one congressional seat redrew some of their district lines to reflect population changes.