Ohio’s redistricting commission on Friday approved a new House map that could help Republicans pick up two seats in the 2026 midterm elections, including one held by the longest-serving woman in congressional history .

While Republicans hold a majority on the commission, the new map represented a bipartisan compromise between the two sides. Its adoption also avoids shifting mapmaking control to the Republican-led state legislature, which could have drawn an even more favorable map for the GOP.

Ohio Republicans currently hold 10 of the state’s 15 House seats and would be favored in as many as 12 districts under the new lines.

Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the dean of the Buckeye State delegation who was first elected in 1982, would see her already competitive 9th District in Northwest

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