That map provided the GOP with an additional two seats but met with opposition from Mr. DeSantis, who said the legislature’s proposal ran afoul of the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause ...

Florida’s political landscape has been redrawn. Every 10 years, after the Census, lawmakers redraw the maps for Florida’s Senate and House and for its U.S. congressional delegation.

Every 10 years, after the census, all states are required to draw new congressional and legislative district maps. Under the law now in Florida, maps must be drawn without regard to politics. But ...

Sen. Darryl Rouson, D-St. Petersburg speaks out against Senate Bill 2-C: Establishing the Congressional Districts of the State in the Senate Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at the Capitol in Tallahassee ...

Florida Florida Senate passes DeSantis congressional map wiping out Dem gains from redistricting The proposal creates 20 seats that favor Republican candidates, while eight districts would lean ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida legislators completed their hasty fix of a congressional redistricting map Monday, sending the plan on to Gov. Rick Scott for approval as they scramble to meet Friday's ...

With the failure of the Legislature to produce new maps, the job of shaping Florida's 27 congressional districts now falls to state Judge Terry Lewis, who has ordered hearings in September.

Opponents pointed to the House map maintaining 18 protected Black districts and 12 protected Hispanic districts, while the Senate kept its number of Hispanic districts at four. They contended that ...

In 2015, the Florida Supreme Court enforced the state's Fair Districts Amendments when striking down the legislature's map and ordering lawmakers to adopt the former 5th Congressional District ...

Mr. DeSantis’s map-drawer, Alex Kelly, said at a Florida Senate committee hearing on Tuesday that he could not draw a compact majority-Black district based in Jacksonville.

The Florida legislature approved changes to its congressional districts ... ruled in early July that Florida's map violated a 2010 law passed by voters that prohibits legislators from favoring ...

That changed last year when the maps drawn by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ staff were adopted by the Florida legislature. District 5 became centered in the Jacksonville area.