A redistricting ruling means the party is unlikely to pick up new seats in the next election while new analysis shows the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the last election .

Gerrymandering involves almost inescapable trade-offs between risk and reward. The more districts you try to create that favour your party, the smaller the margins of victory you can expect in each one—and the more vulnerable you become to losing many of them at once.

Critics warn the move, which requires more time, money and staffers, could lead to confusion, errors and delayed results in key contests in Texas in March.

A federal court blocked a GOP-friendly map in the Lone Star State, and lawmakers in other red states have been reluctant to redraw their own district lines.

With Texas’ new map blocked by a federal court, California Democrats are emerging victorious — though the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in.

A federal court's decision to block the Texas redistricting map is an unmitigated disaster for Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump.

Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu, who largely spearheaded Texas House Democrats' efforts to flee the state and break quorum in protest of the map, said the Trump-appointed federal judge's decision "stopped one of the most brazen attempts to steal our democracy that Texas has ever seen."