Florida's Republican governor signs state's new congressional map into law [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Mon 4 May 2026 14.46 EDT
Last modified on Mon 4 May 2026 15.46 EDT
Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday that gives Republicans an electoral advantage in four additional races in November’s midterm elections. “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,” DeSantis said in a post on X, with a map of the new districts attached.
With the stroke of a pen, DeSantis, a Republican, has done more to determine the outcome of congressional elections in Florida than any political operative or field organizer in the state. The new map slices and dices districts around Miami, Orlando and the Tampa Bay area. As an example of the effect of the mid-decade redistricting, mapmakers packed reliably Democratic voters around Orlando into a single district, forcing Democratic representatives Darren Soto and Maxwell Frost to compete for the same voters.
Conversely, the new map splits the Tampa Bay area from two districts into three, somewhat shoring up the 13th district for Republicans, now held by firebrand Trump supporter and influencer congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, while weakening a left-leaning district for Democrats held by congresswoman Kathy Castor.
Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a longstanding figure among the Democratic National Committee, has had her seat drawn out from beneath her. Miami’s Democrats have been packed into three tight districts along the coast. Florida’s current delegation has 20 Republicans and eight Democrats.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/florida-new-congressional-maps-desantis
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