Election 2026 Florida Redistricting
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State Senators listen to debate on SB 8-D, a redistricting bill during a special session of the Florida Legislature, Wednesday, April 29, 2026, in Tallahassee, Fla.
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Florida Republicans slice and dice congressional districts: How a new map could cost Democrats seats
The redrawn congressional district lines that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon sign into law are intended to help Republicans pick up as many as four U.S. House seats in November — a scenario that would cost some Democrats their seats. The GOP-drawn map uses two redistricting tools called packing and cracking. In Tampa, officials cracked up a Democratic-held district across multiple districts. In Orlando, they packed Democratic voters from two districts into one. In south Florida, they redrew several seats to reduce five contiguous Democratic seats into a map that could limit Democrats to no more than three seats over the same extended area across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
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