There's one topic dominating California's election season this year: Proposition 50, an effort to redraw the state's congressional maps in order to create five new Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

California voters will soon decide the fate of Proposition 50, a measure that would further embroil the state in the midst of a bitter conflict for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A newly released draft map shows how Proposition 50 would substantially redraw California’s congressional districts, Under the proposal, districts such as CA-01, CA-03, CA-22, CA-41 and CA-48 are planned to shift by shedding conservative-leaning counties and absorbing more Democratic-leaning areas.

Voters will decide if they want to adopt the new maps in California in November. California's state legislature on Thursday passed the bills that comprise the state's plan to put new congressional bills on the ballot in a November special election, in ...

Former President Barack Obama is campaigning to pass Proposition 50, said The Associated Press. California voters “can stop Republicans in their tracks” by supporting it, he said in a 30-second TV ad. The measure is opposed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who oversaw the creation of the independent commission in 2010.

Less than two weeks from Election Day, a potentially decisive edge in California's fight over new U.S. House districts has emerged: advertising.

California Democrats unveiled legislation Monday to move forward with their plan to counter a Republican redistricting proposal in Texas with new congressional maps in the Golden State. “We decided as a delegation that we could not just stand there and ...

That word has come up time and again in California politics. And the latest person to pitch the idea is Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, who on Wednesday, Aug. 27, floated the idea — however unlikely — of having the Golden State’s 35 more ...