Population Surge Points to ‘Significant’ District Changes in Massachusetts

Population Surge Points to ‘Significant’ District Changes in Massachusetts

By Colin Young
State House News Service

Maine’s Trump-Leaning Congressional District May Get A Little Less Conservative Because of Census Shift
Around New England

Maine’s Trump-Leaning Congressional District May Get A Little Less Conservative Because of Census Shift

Matthew McDonald

Maine's Trump-supporting Second Congressional District in the central and northern parts of the state may become marginally more Democratic next year, because of a shift in population that will require a redrawing of district lines.

About 23,000 people who currently live in what The Bangor Daily News calls the "reliably liberal" Maine First Congressional District will have to be moved into the more conservative Second district for the 2022 elections because of new U.S. Census data, the newspaper reports.

Read More