Gov. Mike Kehoe says the "Missouri First Map will be used in the general election"
Mike KehoeGovernor of Missouri, posting on his official @GovMikeKehoe account
Kehoe welcomed Chief Judge Stephen Clark's order and said the map used in the primary, which he calls the Missouri First Map, would be used in the general election. He said voters and candidates deserve consistency and certainty and should not have the rules changed between elections.
“We are grateful for Chief Judge Clark’s decision to provide much-needed clarity for Missouri voters and the election process. With today marking the deadline for changes to the November ballot, the Missouri First Map will be used in the general election. Voters and candidates deserve consistency, certainty, and not to have the rules changed between elections.”
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Should Missouri be allowed to use its 2025 congressional map in the 2026 general election?
Missouri lawmakers passed a new congressional map, House Bill 1, in September 2025, and the State used it in the August 4, 2026 primary. On September 3, 2026, the Supreme Court of Missouri ruled unanimously that a referendum petition kept the map from taking effect and that the 2022 map remains in force for the November general election. Gov. Mike Kehoe, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins and President Donald Trump said in early September that the primary map should be used in November, and the Eighth Circuit held on September 21 that using the 2022 map violates the U.S. Constitution. People Not Politicians, the Campaign Legal Center and the ACLU argued that Missouri law makes the 2022 map the only valid map and that ballots had been mailed under it. On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned per curiam order that records no dissent, stayed the federal injunctions, said that under state law the 2022 map must be used, and said lower courts should not require use of the 2025 map in the 2026 election. Kehoe called that decision disappointing and said Missouri will follow the order.
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Post from the governor's official account, a government-verified account, published the evening Chief Judge Stephen Clark issued his temporary restraining order.
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Temporary restraining order in the lawsuit filed by Rep. Bob Onder, Rick Brattin and two voters. It directs Missouri to use the 2025 map (House Bill 1) for the November 2026 general election. The Supreme Court stayed this order on September 10.
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Unsigned per curiam order on an application that Circuit Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred to the full Court. It stays the Eighth Circuit's September 21 mandate and September 22 order and the district court's September 21 and 22 injunctions, keeps the Court's September 10 stay in place, and says the lower courts should not prohibit use of the 2022 map or require use of the 2025 map in the 2026 congressional election in Missouri. The text of the order shows no separate opinion or noted dissent.
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One-page unsigned order staying the district court's September 8 order pending the Eighth Circuit appeal and any timely petition for certiorari. The order gives no reasoning.
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Published per curiam opinion affirming Chief Judge Stephen Clark's temporary restraining order and directing entry of a permanent injunction requiring the 2025 map, with the injunction administratively stayed until September 28, 2026 at 5 p.m. Central time. Judge Stras concurred in part and dissented in part, writing that he would dismiss the appeal because People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn lack standing.
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Chief Judge Stephen Clark issued an order on September 8 requiring Missouri to use the 2025 map, shortly after Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Secretary of State Denny Hoskins's application to stay the Supreme Court of Missouri's ruling.
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The U.S. Supreme Court stayed Clark's order on September 10. The Eighth Circuit recorded that the 2025 map was passed in an extraordinary session called by Kehoe.
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The reference point is use of the 2025 map in the 2026 general election. Kehoe supports that use and objects to changing rules between the primary and the general election. The closest competing label, “Challenged the characterization”, loses because he defends the outcome rather than disputing a description.
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