The new map puts three Republican-held seats into safe Democratic hands and turned two others into those that lean Democratic.

A plan to redraw California’s congressional districts, known as Proposition 50, has passed in Tuesday’s election, in a blow to President Donald Trump.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a rising star in the Democratic party, has a lot at stake in Tuesday’s election. In August, Newsom unveiled a proposal to redraw California’s congressional maps, calling

California's controversial redistricting ballot measure to boost Gavin Newsom's early bid for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.

Proposition 50, backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democratic Legislature, asked voters to replace the state’s independently drawn congressional districts with new maps

In a survey by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies that was co-sponsored by The Times, more than 9 out of 10 Democrats support Proposition 50 and a similar proportion of Republicans oppose it. Among voters who belong to other parties, or identify as “no party preference,” 57% favored the ballot measure, while 39% opposed it.

California's Proposition 50, redrawing the congressional map to make five districts more Democratic-leaning, will pass, ABC News projects.

California voters are deciding whether to change their state’s congressional district boundaries to favor Democrats