House approves amendment tweaking new congressional maps

Published: May 28, 2026

By: Sheridan White, Avery White and Gracie Thomas, LSU Manship School News Service

BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana House voted 66-35 Thursday to approve its final version of a new U.S. House map that would give Republicans majorities in five of the state’s six districts.

The amended Senate Bill 121 was passed Thursday afternoon after eight hours of floor debate, the final step before sending the bill back to the Senate to approve the last-minute changes.

Some constituents broke out in protests after the final vote shouting “shame, shame, shame.”

During final debate on the House floor, Democratic lawmakers who oppose seeing the current 4-2 map redrawn to give Republicans a 5-1 edge reignited heated arguments over the role of politics and race in drawing district lines.

“We’re trying to relitigate the Civil War,” said Rep. Wilford Carter, D-Lake Charles, who opposed the redrawn map. “The Civil War is over. We lost the Civil War. … This is just another back step.”