A draft of newly drawn proposed congressional districts in California were made public last week, part of a countermeasure to a gerrymandering effort in Texas to secure more Republican-held seats in the House of Representatives.

Proposed new congressional maps in California could help Democrats flip five Republican seats and bolster around five Democratic incumbents in toss-up districts.

The new, partisan maps come on the heels of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s launch of California’s redistricting campaign on Thursday, an effort he touted as meant to favor Democrats in California in the upcoming midterm elections as a counter to similar efforts in Republican-led states elsewhere in the country.

Democratic lawmakers in Texas returned to the state on Monday, ending a walkout that broke quorum and blocked Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps at the behest of U.S. President Donald Trump.

“We are entitled to five more seats” in Texas, Trump insisted Tuesday in a CNBC interview. He pointed to California’s existing maps, which are drawn by an independent commission unlike the Texas maps crafted by a partisan legislature: “They did it to us.”

A partisan move by Texas to redraw its congressional maps in an unusually timed effort to secure five more GOP seats in the U.S. House before the 2026 elections has set off a clamor to replicate the effort in statehouses controlled by both parties.

Ohio lawmakers will start drafting new congressional districts, with the Equal Districts Coalition pushing for fair maps.