Map: How Texas congressional districts would change under Republicans' new proposal

Texas Republicans released a proposed new congressional map Wednesday that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year’s midterm elections

Texas Republicans released a proposed new congressional map Wednesday that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year’s midterm elections.

The proposal, which follows President Donald Trump's public pressing for a new map in the state, would shift district lines in ways that would target current Democratic members of Congress in districts in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as two already endangered Democrats representing South Texas districts that Trump carried last year.

If it were enacted, the proposal could have a major effect on the battle for control of the House of Representatives in 2026. Republicans hold a slim, eight-seat advantage in the House right now, but this map could add extra padding as they seek to keep the House for the final two years of Trump's presidency. They already control 25 of the 38 congressional districts in Texas.

In a sign of how carefully the new lines are drawn to maximize the GOP's standing, Trump would have carried 30 out of 38 seats on the new map last year, none by single-digit margins. Democratic voters would be packed into eight districts that former Vice President Kamala Harris would have won by at least 15 percentage points apiece last year, according to analysis from the nonpartisan Texas Legislative Council.

The proposed map was filed by state Rep. Todd Hunter, who represents a coastal area in southeastern Texas and is a member of the state House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, which was created last week as part of the special legislative session called by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.