The initial draft of this map was denounced by Democratic congressional candidate Cindy Banyai. It also puts the 19th District portion of Lehigh Acres solidly in the 17th. State Road 82 becomes the boundary between the 17th and the 19th until it reaches Rt. the boundary line between the 19th and the 17th in the west. The Senate map keeps Fort MyersвЂ™ River District in the 19th and makes Park Ave. The B meant that the map was considered вЂњbetter than average for the category, but bias still exists.вЂќДЄs of this writing the new maps have not yet been graded by Princeton. It largely kept existing districts intact, while giving Florida its new 28th district. The initial round of maps proposed by the Senate received a вЂњBвЂќ grade from the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, an academic, non-partisan evaluation by Princeton University. Ray Rodrigues (R-27-Lee County) who chaired the SenateвЂ™s Reapportionment Committee.ДЇrom the outset, Rodrigues said he was committed to avoiding the experience of the 2010 redistricting, which was challenged in court and took six years to litigate before final maps were approved. This map was chosen and shepherded through the committee process by Sen. The map approved yesterday by the Senate ( S000C8040) largely keeps existing boundaries and numbers. Red lines denote existing district boundaries. The Senate map An overview of the Senate-passed congressional redistricting map. The Florida House has yet to weigh in with a final version of its congressional map. DeSantis has indicated that he may veto the Senate map, since he has to sign off on any congressional boundary changes. Ron DeSantis (R), which made radical changes to FloridaвЂ™s congressional districts. The Senate completely ignored a map submitted on behalf of Gov.

Those districts include considerable Black and Hispanic populations and dilute any potential Democratic voting blocks in the 19th, making both the 19th and 17th districts, already heavily Republican, even more so. The new map makes only slight changes to Southwest FloridaвЂ™s congressional districts but it does take a chunk of Fort Myers and Lehigh Acres out of the current 19th Congressional District and puts it in the 17th Congressional District to the north. 20, passed its version of FloridaвЂ™s new congressional districts. (Map: Florida Senate/Arrows: The Paradise Progressive.)Д«y a vote of 31 to 4 the Florida Senate yesterday, Jan. The red lines denote the existing district lines. The transfer of north Fort Myers (left arrow) and Lehigh Acres (right arrow) into the 17th Congressional District in the map passed by the Florida Senate.

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