Will Missouri's Supreme Court let voters decide the state's new congressional map by the Sept 8 ballot deadline?
50% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 18 predictions cast.
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on September 3, 2026, that the Republican-drawn 2025 congressional map could not be used for the November 2026 election, and ordered Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to certify a voter referendum petition against the map as legally sufficient. The petition, backed by the group People Not Politicians Missouri and more than 300,000 signatures, went on the ballot as Proposition A, with the court directing officials to meet the September 8 certification deadline. Missouri's prior, 2020-census-era congressional map remains in effect for November 2026 unless voters approve the new map through Proposition A.
The court held that Missouri's constitutional referendum power extends to any act of the state legislature, including redistricting, rejecting Hoskins' argument that the petition was constitutionally insufficient.
The prediction-market community was evenly split at 50%, and the actual outcome was yes: voters will get to decide the map's fate. The ruling extended a broader national pattern of state courts intervening in mid-decade congressional redistricting fights ahead of the 2026 midterms.