Missouri Voters Reject GOP Mid‑Decade Congressional Map

Overview

• Missouri voters rejected Proposition A on Tuesday, Nov. 3, with unofficial returns showing more than 60 percent voting to block the legislature’s 2025 congressional map.
• The 2025 plan would have stretched the 5th District from Kansas City to Jefferson City to make a long‑held Democratic seat more competitive for Republicans.
• A months‑long legal fight shaped the contest: Secretary of State Denny Hoskins initially refused to certify the referendum, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled the map never legally took effect and the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the map for the 2026 elections.
• People Not Politicians Missouri collected more than 300,000 signatures to force the referendum and reported roughly $5.4 million in late campaign funding while pro‑map group Put Missouri First did not mount a comparable late push.
• The result preserves Kansas City’s 5th District and Representative Emanuel Cleaver for now but does not stop lawmakers from pursuing new maps in 2027 and could trigger more legal fights because Amendment 6 leaves open questions about what counts as a similar law.