New York voters approve Proposal 1, creating Independent Redistricting Commission and banning partisan gerrymandering

New York voters ratified a constitutional amendment on Nov. 4, 2014, that created the 10-member bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission and for the first time embedded anti-gerrymandering criteria directly into the state constitution. Proposal 1 passed 57.7-to-42.3%. The legislature had passed the identical amendment in two successive sessions — 2012 and 2013 — satisfying the constitutional requirement before placing it on the ballot.