Maryland voters are not on board with joining the national redistricting wars, a poll released Wednesday by the University of Maryland at Baltimore County found.
A proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot would loosen state rules for drawing congressional boundaries. The change, pushed by Gov. Wes Moore and other Democratic leaders, would allow the Democratic supermajority in Annapolis to redraw House districts more easily to oust Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress. It is designed to counteract Republican redistricting in other states meant to aid the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections.
The poll by UMBC’s Institute of Politics showed that the majority of Maryland voters, 53 percent, said they do not plan to vote in favor of the proposed amendment.
Nineteen percent were undecided, and 25 percent of voters said they would vote for it. Opposition cut across party lines in a state where about half of voters are registered Democrats, one-quarter are registered Republicans and one-quarter are not affiliated with a party.
Forty-two percent of Democrats opposed the measure, as did 74 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of unaffiliated voters.
The poll of 776 likely voters has a 3.5 percentage point margin of error.
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