美联社 / 2026年2月6日上午11:14（美国东部时间）
（配图：里士满弗吉尼亚州议会大厦，2026年1月17日拍摄）
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弗吉尼亚州民主党周四公布了一份拟议的美国众议院选区地图，旨在通过最新努力争取多获得四个席位，以对抗总统唐纳德·特朗普推动的重新划分选区计划。尽管一起持续的法律挑战使该地图在中期选举中的使用远非确定。
该地图将削弱共和党在弗吉尼亚州保守地区的优势，同时让民主党在他们希望翻转的选区中占据更有利地位。这也将在美国众议院的重新划分选区之战中，为民主党在11月选举前提供全国性的助力。
但今年1月，一名弗吉尼亚州法官裁定，民主党提出的重新划分该州美国众议院选区的宪法修正案是非法的。这对民主党让选民在4月的公民投票中决定该修正案的计划是一个打击。民主党正在对此案提起上诉，该案似乎将直接提交给州最高法院。
目前，该州在众议院中有6名民主党议员和5名共和党议员，这些席位是在2020年人口普查后，由于两党立法委员会未能就选区划分达成一致，由法院强制划定的。
周四早些时候，该州最高民主党立法者表示，他们将公布一份旨在帮助民主党赢得11个席位中的10个的选区地图。附在周四在线发布的提案中的近期选举数据支持了这一可能性。国会初选目前定于6月举行。
弗吉尼亚州共和党人拒绝了民主党重新划分众议院选区的努力，他们指出该州近年来一直在推动公平选区划分。2020年，选民支持修改州宪法，旨在通过成立重新划分选区委员会来结束立法选区操纵。
弗吉尼亚州民主党在去年11月决定性地赢得了州众议院13个席位和州长职位，他们长期以来表示，在特朗普推动共和党控制的州（如得克萨斯州）重新划分众议院选区后，弗吉尼亚州将努力重新划分选区以公平竞争。
“现在不是平常时候，弗吉尼亚不会在这种情况发生时袖手旁观，”州参议院临时议长L. Louise Lucas周四早些时候与众议院议长唐·斯科特一起对记者表示，“我们承诺要公平竞争，今天我们正在履行这一承诺。”
在其他州，重新划分选区的斗争迄今为止已导致共和党人认为他们能在得克萨斯州、密苏里州、北卡罗来纳州和俄亥俄州赢得9个额外席位，而民主党则认为他们能在加利福尼亚州和犹他州赢得6个席位。民主党希望在弗吉尼亚州弥补这3个席位的差距。
支持弗吉尼亚州公平选区的迈克·杨（Mike Young），一个反对重新划分选区的共和党支持团体，称周四的提案是“一份隐藏在幕后、不为公众所知的非法、过度党派化的选区操纵地图”，并且“完全违背常识”。
多个州仍在就重新划分选区的倡议进行诉讼，且无法保证两党能够赢得他们重新划分的席位。
尽管弗吉尼亚州的重新划分选区努力遇到障碍，但马里兰州立法者已经推进了一项新地图，该地图可能使民主党击败该州唯一的众议院共和党人。此前，民主党州长韦斯·摩尔亲自敦促他们这样做，尽管在该州实施这样的地图仍存在障碍。
Virginia Democrats unveil a redistricting map that would aim to give them 4 more US House seats
Associated Press / 2026-02-06T11:14 AM ET
The Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, on January 17.
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Virginia Democrats unveiled a proposed US House map Thursday that aims to give their party four more seats in the latest effort to fight President Donald Trump’s redistricting push, even as an ongoing legal challenge makes use of that map for the midterm elections far from certain.
The map would dilute Republicans’ hold in Virginia’s conservative areas while giving Democrats a better footing in the districts they would like to flip. And it would give Democrats nationwide a boost in the redistricting battle for the House ahead of the November elections.
But in January, a Virginia judge ruled that Democrats’ proposed constitutional amendment for redrawing the state’s U.S. House lines was illegal. It was a blow to Democrats’ plan to let voters decide on the amendment in a referendum in April. Democrats are appealing in the case, which appears headed directly to the state Supreme Court.
The state is currently represented in the US House by six Democrats and five Republicans who ran in districts imposed by a court after a bipartisan legislative commission failed to agree on a map after the 2020 census.
Earlier Thursday, the state’s top Democratic legislators said they would unveil a map drawn to help Democrats win 10 of the 11 seats. Data from recent past elections attached to the proposal posted online Thursday support that possibility. A congressional primary is currently set for June.
Virginia Republicans have rebuffed Democrats’ efforts to redraw the House map, pointing to a recent yearslong push for fair maps in the state. In 2020, voters supported a change to the state’s constitution aimed at ending legislative gerrymandering by creating the redistricting commission.
Virginia Democrats, who decisively flipped 13 seats in the state House and the governor’s office last November, have long said that efforts to redistrict the state would level the playing field after Trump pushed to redraw House districts in Republican-controlled states such as Texas.
“These are not ordinary times and Virginia will not sit on the sidelines while it happens,” state Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas told reporters earlier Thursday alongside House Speaker Don Scott. “We made a promise to level the playing field, and today we’re keeping our promise.”
In other states, the redistricting battle has resulted so far in nine more seats that Republicans believe they can win in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio, and six that Democrats think they can win in California and Utah. Democrats have hoped to make up that three-seat margin in Virginia.
Mike Young with Virginians for Fair Maps, a Republican-backed group opposed to the redrawing, called Thursday’s proposal “an illegal, hyper-partisan gerrymander drawn in backrooms hidden from the public” and one “that completely disregards common sense.”
Redistricting initiatives are still being litigated in several states, and there is no guarantee that the parties will win the seats they have redrawn.
While Virginia’s redistricting push hits hurdles, Maryland lawmakers have advanced a new map that could enable Democrats to defeat the state’s only House Republican, after Democratic Gov. Wes Moore urged them in person to do so, though obstacles remain for enacting such a map there.
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