Eight months after losing one redistricting contest, Republicans have prevailed in another that will put U.S. Reps. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) and Steve Rothman (D-9th Dist.) in one North Jersey district, to Garrett’s partisan advantage.

….New Jersey is losing a seat in the House because the state’s population did not grow fast enough to keep pace with faster growing states in the sun belt and other parts of the country. Texas, for instance, is gaining four seats while Florida is gaining two. By contrast, New York and Ohio are each losing two seats.

The other states losing a single seat are Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

The victory comes eight months after Republicans lost the effort to redraw the state’s 40 legislative districts to Democrats, who continue to dominate the state Legislature and, because of the new map, are favored to do so for the next 10 years.

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