The Indiana congressional district map divides the state into nine districts, each electing one member of the U.S. House. The current boundaries were signed into law on October 4, 2021, and first applied in the November 2022 elections. To find the district you live in, use the Indiana Secretary of State’s address-based lookup rather than a ZIP code search, because ZIP codes sometimes cross district lines.1Indiana Secretary of State. Who Are Your Elected Officials
How to Find Your District
The Secretary of State’s voter information portal lets residents enter an address to see their U.S. House representative along with other elected officials.1Indiana Secretary of State. Who Are Your Elected Officials The U.S. House also offers a “Find Your Representative” tool that matches a ZIP code to a district.2U.S. House of Representatives. Find Your Representative If the House tool returns more than one possible representative for your ZIP, fall back to the address-based tool for a definitive answer.
What the Nine Districts Look Like
Indiana kept its nine congressional seats after the 2020 Census, unchanged from the prior decade.3U.S. Census Bureau. Apportionment of Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives 1910 to 2020 The state last lost a seat after the 2000 Census, when it dropped from ten to nine.4U.S. Census Bureau. Number of Seats Gained and Lost in U.S. House of Representatives
The 7th District sits entirely within Marion County, covering Indianapolis. It is the state’s most urban and most racially diverse district. The 1st District covers the northwestern corner near Lake Michigan, including Gary and other communities along the Illinois border. The remaining districts radiate outward from population centers, combining suburban, small-town, and rural territory to hit equal population totals. In the south, geographically expansive districts stretch from Ohio River cities through rural counties.
Who Draws the Map
The Indiana General Assembly draws Indiana’s congressional districts through ordinary legislation.5All About Redistricting. Indiana A redistricting bill moves through committees in the House and Senate and goes to the governor for signature or veto, the same as any other bill. The process is triggered every ten years by the U.S. Census, which supplies the population data states use to rebalance their districts.6STATS Indiana. Legislative Redistricting Topic Page
Indiana Code 3-3-2-2 establishes a five-member backup commission that takes over if the General Assembly adjourns without a valid congressional plan. The commission is composed of the speaker of the house, the president pro tem of the senate, the chairpersons of the senate and house committees responsible for apportionment, and a fifth member appointed by the governor from the General Assembly. It must meet within 30 days of adjournment, and the governor is directed to issue an executive order implementing whatever plan the commission adopts, with no veto option at that stage.7Indiana General Assembly. Indiana Code Title 3, Article 3, Chapter 2, Section 3-3-2-2 – Redistricting Commission Establishment The commission has never been activated. In every cycle so far the General Assembly has passed a map on its own.
Indiana has no independent redistricting commission and no state-law criteria specifically governing congressional lines. The state constitution’s contiguity requirement in Article IV, Section 5 applies to state legislative districts, not congressional ones, and no state statute mandates compactness, respect for county or city boundaries, or preservation of communities of interest in the congressional map.
The Federal Rules That Constrain Every Map
Three federal requirements bind the General Assembly when it draws congressional districts. Districts must contain nearly equal populations under Wesberry v. Sanders, which grounded the one-person-one-vote rule in Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution.8Justia U.S. Supreme Court. Wesberry v Sanders, 376 US 1 (1964) Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act prohibits lines that deny or limit the voting power of racial or language minority groups, measured under the totality of circumstances.9Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 52 USC 10301 Federal law also requires each state with more than one representative to establish a number of single-member districts equal to its number of seats.10Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 2 USC 2c – Number of Congressional Districts
Partisan considerations face no such check. The U.S. Supreme Court held in Rucho v. Common Cause that partisan gerrymandering claims are political questions beyond the reach of federal courts.11Supreme Court of the United States. Rucho v Common Cause, 588 US 684 (2019) With no federal judicial remedy and no state-law standard, the General Assembly can weigh partisan advantage in drawing congressional lines. Democratic proposals to require maps drawn by an independent body have been repeatedly rejected.
The 2025 Mid-Decade Redistricting Attempt
Nothing in state or federal law limits congressional redistricting to once a decade. Governor Mike Braun called a special legislative session for mid-decade redistricting beginning in November 2025. House Republicans released a draft map in December 2025 that would have split the 7th District in Indianapolis among four new districts, each reaching deep into rural Republican-leaning counties, with the stated goal of maximizing the party’s advantage across all nine seats.
The Indiana House passed the bill 57-41 on December 5, 2025. The Indiana Senate rejected it 31-19 on December 11, 2025, with 21 Republican senators joining all 10 Democrats in voting no. The bill also included provisions that would have restricted state-court challenges to new maps by banning temporary restraining orders and routing injunction appeals directly to the Indiana Supreme Court. The 2021 map remains in effect for upcoming elections.
What Happens After the 2030 Census
The next mandatory redistricting cycle begins after the 2030 Census. The Census Bureau is required to deliver redistricting data to the states by April 1, 2031, one year after Census Day.12United States Census Bureau. Redistricting Data Program Management Once Indiana receives that data, the General Assembly must draw new congressional boundaries during its next legislative session.
Whether Indiana retains nine seats depends on how its population growth compares to the rest of the country. Indiana has grown more slowly than the national average in recent decades, and it narrowly held its ninth seat after the 2020 count. A further slowdown could cost the state a seat for the first time since 2000. In the meantime, the General Assembly retains the authority to redraw the map before 2031 if it has the votes to do so.