Advocacy groups criticized the process for a lack of public feedback and favoring incumbents.

Ohio's top politicians plan to approve a new congressional map with bipartisan support on Oct. 31 − a compromise to avoid worst-case scenarios for both Republicans and Democrats.

“For Republicans who might not like this [outcome], I would simply say that this very well could be a 12-3 map. Those are pretty darn good numbers,” DeWine told reporters, according to the Columbus D...