In Florida, the question of how best to protect minority interests in redistricting recently escalated into a heated statewide debate over redistricting. At the forefront is outspoken Democratic Representative Corrine Brown, who has filed a lawsuit to take Amendment 6 (the FairDistricts Florida ballot initiative that would reform the criteria for drawing congressional districts) off [...]
Florida redistricting after the 2010 census is likely to be a partisan struggle. The state is likely to gain an additional Congressional seat (for a total of 26). Despite having more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, the state government is dominated by Republicans. The state Senate has twenty-six Republicans to fourteen Democrats and the [...]
The Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Palm Beach area includes the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd districts. The more southern 18th and 21st are held by Republicans while the rest are held by Democrats. All, however, are below the ideal population level, some by a considerable amount.
Florida’s 17th congressional district is located at the [...]
Our southern Florida region contains five districts: 13th, 14th, 16th, 23rd and 25th. Four seats are held by Republicans and over-populated while the 23rd is held by a Democrat and relatively under-populated.
Florida’s 13th congressional district stretches along the Gulf Coast from just below Tampa Bay to Charlotte harbor. It includes all of Sarasota, DeSoto and [...]
Central Florida includes the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 15th districts. It is centered on Tampa and St. Petersburg in the west, though some districts stretch across inland Florida to the Space Coast along the Atlantic.
Florida’s 9th congressional district includes the area north of St. Petersburg and north and east of Tampa. It is also [...]
Northern Florida contains seven districts: the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 24th. The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th are currently held by Republicans and all but the 3rd are over the ideal population for a district.
The 3rd lies in the center of the area. It was drawn in 1992 to be North Florida’s black-majority [...]
Florida redistricting after the 2010 census is likely to be a partisan struggle. The state is likely to gain an additional Congressional seat (for a total of 26). Despite having more registered Democrats than Republicans in Florida, the state government is dominated by Republicans. The state Senate has twenty-six Republicans to fourteen Democrats and the [...]
Florida is advancing two redistricting reform ballot initiatives for statewide voter approval in November 2010 but still needs more signatures before they will appear on the ballot. FairDistrictsFlorida.org, the author of the initiatives, is a nonpartisan organization that is seeking to reform the state’s process for drawing state legislative and congressional district lines by placing [...]
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