The Ohio Redistricting Commission unanimously voted for a new congressional map for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections that favors Republicans 12-3.

The current map, in existence since the 2022 election, has 10 Republican members of Congress and five Democrats with the latter political party winning two swing districts on the new map that slightly favor them.

The commission, consisting of five Republicans and two Democrats, voted 7-0 Friday in support of the map.

With Republicans planning a 13-2 map in their favor, Democrats worked out a deal to give U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes, D-Akron, a safer district while making districts held by two other Democrats — Greg Landsman, D-Cincinnati, and Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo — favor Republicans.

Kaptur, the longest-serving female congresswoman in U.S. his

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