The Florida House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve a new congressional map proposed by Governor Ron DeSantis, moving the redistricting process one step closer to finalization despite intense pushback from the minority party.

Florida’s 2022 redistricting map, based on the U.S. Census, defined the 2024 election. Florida Republicans recently pushed for redistricting before the next U.S. Census in 2030. The Florida legislature approved a map from the Executive Office of Gov.

Florida is seen as the last possible place before the November midterms for Republicans to gain seats in mid-decade redistricting, a process kickstarted last year by President Donald Trump and the White House.

By aggressively targeting Democratic-held districts, Republicans may have weakened some of their own safest seats.

Florida's ruling Republican lawmakers are looking to redraw the state's 28 congressional districts to potentially gain four seats. See the new map.

Maryland House Democrats say they plan to proceed with redistricting in 2027, despite the Senate blocking their earlier effort to redraw the maps. The April 29 Supreme Court ruling barring the use of race in redistricting decisions has renewed Maryland Democrats’ push to redraw maps,

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While redistricting is the unbiased legislative process required for legislative maps, gerrymandering is a biased exploitation of the process, aiming to redraw lines for political benefit.