RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s three most populous counties likely won’t be split more than once under new congressional redistricting maps being drawn this week by state lawmakers.
Two proposed congressional maps released by the state House and Senate split Wake County and Mecklenburg County just once and keep Guilford County whole. Under maps passed last year, each of those counties were split twice, dividing them among three congressional districts each.
However, the Senate complicated matters late Tuesday by announcing that it would not be voting on the map it had made public earlier in the day, but that redistricting leaders would instead work overnight to redraw the lines and release a new map Thursday morning, just a day before a court-imposed deadline.
