In 2018, Republicans won 9 of 13 seats, with one election not certified because of fraud connected to absentee ballots by Republican operatives hired by the Harris campaign (see below). Democrats won 48% of the statewide vote and would have expected to win more seats. Two lawsuits were filed against the state for legislative partisan gerrymandering, intended to minimize or suppress voting by Democratic constituencies for both congressional and state legislative districts. The combined case will be heard by the US Supreme Court in 2019.