The Michigan state house district map now in effect is the 2024 remedial plan known as “Motown Sound FC E1,” adopted by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission on February 28, 2024, and approved by a three-judge federal panel on March 27, 2024. It keeps the state’s 110 districts from the commission’s original 2021 plan but redraws 15 of them in metro Detroit after a federal court found the earlier versions unconstitutional. The map governed the November 2024 elections and remains in force today.1Michigan Advance. Court Approves New Michigan House District Map
What the Current Map Looks Like
Michigan’s 110 house districts cover the entire state, from the Upper Peninsula down to the Ohio border, with each district holding roughly 77,000 to 91,000 residents based on 2020 census figures.2Michigan House of Representatives. All Representatives The densest cluster of districts sits in the tri-county metro Detroit area of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Flint carry their own clusters. In northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula, districts sprawl over much larger geographic areas to reach the population minimum.3Michigan DTMB. Michigan’s 110 House Districts – 2021 Apportionment Plan
The 2024 remedial changes are concentrated in and around Detroit. Fifteen districts were rewritten: the seven the court had voided (Districts 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14) and eight neighboring districts (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, and 16) whose boundaries had to shift to accommodate the redraw. Districts 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 14 were reoriented from a north-south configuration to an east-west one, and the number of majority-Black districts in the Detroit area rose from six under the 2021 plan to eight under the remedial plan.4Loyola Law School Redistricting. Agee v. Benson, Opinion and Order, March 27, 20245Michigan State University IPPSR. Evaluation of MICRC Remedial Maps Outside metro Detroit, the district lines from the commission’s original December 28, 2021 adoption are unchanged.
Why the Map Was Redrawn in 2024
The commission adopted its original 110-district map on December 28, 2021. Three months later, in March 2022, 19 Black residents of Detroit sued in federal court, arguing that the metro Detroit districts diluted Black voting power in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.6SCOTUSblog. Justices Decline to Intervene in Michigan Redistricting Dispute
On December 21, 2023, a three-judge federal panel in the Western District of Michigan ruled for the plaintiffs. Circuit Judge Raymond M. Kethledge, writing for the court and joined by District Judges Paul L. Maloney and Janet T. Neff, found that thirteen state legislative districts (seven House, six Senate) had been drawn predominantly on the basis of race. The court said the evidence was “overwhelming — indeed, inescapably” that the commission’s legal counsel and a hired political scientist had directed commissioners to sort voters to hit Black voting-age population targets of 35 to 45 percent, an approach the court called “without support in the Supreme Court’s VRA caselaw.”7Justia. Agee v. Benson, Case No. 1:22-cv-00272 The original map had cut the number of majority-Black House districts in the Detroit area from ten under the previous decade’s map to six.6SCOTUSblog. Justices Decline to Intervene in Michigan Redistricting Dispute
The commission asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the ruling. On January 22, 2024, the justices declined in a brief unsigned order with no recorded dissents.6SCOTUSblog. Justices Decline to Intervene in Michigan Redistricting Dispute The commission then produced ten draft remedial maps at the end of January and beginning of February 2024, held a remote town hall on February 15 and in-person hearings at Greater Grace Temple and Second Ebenezer Baptist Church in Detroit on February 21 and 22, and adopted the final Motown Sound FC E1 plan on February 28.8Michigan Advance. Michigan Redistricting Commission Meets Court Deadline for New Metro Detroit State House Maps
When the three-judge panel approved the remedial plan on March 27, 2024, it wrote that “federal law provides us no basis to reject the Commission’s remedial House plan.”1Michigan Advance. Court Approves New Michigan House District Map The court’s appointed expert, Dr. Bernard Grofman, concluded the commission had “addressed and remedied the race-related constitutional defects in its previous map.” The court also rejected the plaintiffs’ claim that the commission had improperly outsourced its work to a member of the public, calling that argument “hyperbole” and noting that 84 percent of the final plan was drawn by the commission itself.9Loyola Law School Redistricting. $$1$$ Approval landed before the April 23, 2024 candidate filing deadline, allowing the map to take effect for the November 2024 elections.
Who Draws Michigan’s Map and Under What Rules
Michigan voters took map-drawing away from the state legislature in November 2018 by passing Proposal 18-2, a constitutional amendment that created the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The commission is a 13-member body: four Democrats, four Republicans, and five members unaffiliated with either party. Its powers are constitutionally reserved and cannot be controlled, approved, or altered by the legislature.10Michigan Legislature. Michigan Constitution, Article IV, Section 6 Adoption of a plan requires the support of at least two Democratic, two Republican, and two unaffiliated commissioners.11Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Commission Report
The amendment sets a ranked list of criteria the commission must follow when drawing districts:
- Equal population, as required by the U.S. Constitution, and compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
- Contiguity: every district must be geographically connected.
- Communities of interest: districts should reflect cultural, historical, or economic ties. Ties to political parties, incumbents, or candidates do not count.
- Partisan fairness: no disproportionate advantage to any political party.
- No incumbent favoritism.
- Respect for county, city, and township boundaries where possible.
- Reasonable compactness.
The commission is currently dormant. It will reconvene only if a new legal challenge forces it back into session or when the next redistricting cycle begins after the 2030 census.
Could the Map Change Again Before 2030
The most active question hanging over Michigan’s map is the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 29, 2026 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. In a 6-3 decision, the Court raised the legal threshold for challenging maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, held that Section 2 imposes liability only where there is a “strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred,” and that plaintiffs must show racial-bloc voting exists independently of partisan voting patterns. Justice Elena Kagan, in dissent, said the ruling rendered Section 2 “all but a dead letter.”12SCOTUSblog. In Major Voting Rights Act Case, Supreme Court Strikes Down Redistricting Map
Commissioners disagree on what that means for Michigan. MICRC Vice Chair Rebecca Szetela said new legal challenges to the current maps are “likely,” arguing that race was a “predominant factor” in the 2024 remedial House and Senate districts. MICRC Chair Anthony Eid disagreed, saying the remedial maps followed a “race-blind approach” and that he would be “surprised” if the commission were forced to act again. Melinda Billingsley of Voters Not Politicians has pointed to the “communities of interest” language in the state constitutional amendment as a state-level buffer that would survive shifts in federal Voting Rights Act doctrine.13Votebeat. Independent Redistricting Commission and Louisiana v. Callais
For now, the current map stays in place. The commission is dormant, the August 2026 primary filing deadline passed in April, and reconvening in time to affect that election cycle would be extremely difficult.
How to Find Your District
Several state tools let Michigan residents look up which of the 110 house districts covers their address:
- The Michigan Department of State’s Election District Viewer is an interactive address-lookup tool at mcgi.state.mi.us/districtlocator.14Michigan Department of State. Election District Viewer
- The Michigan House of Representatives website (house.mi.gov) offers a “Find My Rep” form and a downloadable PDF map of all 110 districts.15Michigan House of Representatives. FAQ
- For GIS shapefiles or digital boundary data, the State of Michigan’s open geospatial data portal hosts a dataset titled “Remedial State House Districts 2021 – Approved in 2024,” available in standard GIS formats.16Michigan GIS Open Data. Remedial State House Districts 2021 – Approved in 2024
If you are checking your district for a specific election, make sure the source you use reflects the 2024 remedial boundaries rather than the original 2021 plan. The dataset name on the state’s GIS portal is the clearest signal: anything labeled “remedial” or “Approved in 2024” is the current map.