First draft of Georgia’s redistricting map released by State Senate

Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan and State Senator John Flanders Kennedy, president of the chamber’s Redistricting and Reapportionment Committee, released a projected legislature territory representation that would summation the size of districts successful agrarian South Georgia to bespeak losses successful colonisation during the past decade.

“This representation not lone meets principles of redistricting, but we are arrogant to contiguous a representation that careless of governmental party, Georgians tin beryllium arrogant of,” Duncan said. “Ensuring that immoderate maps we nutrient are fair, compact, and support communities of involvement unneurotic volition proceed to beryllium of upmost importance.”

Democrat Lucy McBath captured the Sixth Congressional District successful Atlanta’s bluish suburbs successful 2018 aft it had been successful Republican hands for decades, past won reelection past year. According to the State Senate version, McBath would look to beryllium much susceptible but the State’s precocious enclosure did not gerrymander it into astir arsenic reddish a spot arsenic expected. Most of Republican-leaning Forsyth County would wrong the Sixth District for the archetypal time. The territory would clasp East Cobb and North Fulton but suffer bluish DeKalb County. However, the divers maturation of Forsyth could offset the losses of Northern DeKalb County.

Also, this program would support Rep. Sanford Bishop successful Georgia’s Second District and Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux successful Georgia’s Seventh District.

“Even fixed the hold of authoritative Census numbers, the Senate Redistricting Committee has diligently worked to guarantee that we perceive from citizens crossed each regions of the state,” said Chairman John F. Kennedy. “Looking astatine this map, it is evident that Georgians person been heard, and volition proceed to beryllium heard.”

The 10th Congressional District would beryllium to Rep. Andrew Clyde. Under the Duncan and Kennedy’s map, the 10th would suffer bluish Columbia County, confederate Baldwin County and each of McDuffie and Warren counties, portion moving further northbound to summation Elbert, Jackson, portions of Gwinnett and Madison counties, positive absorbing each of Athens-Clarke County. Currently, the 10th District does not see the bluish information of Athens-Clarke. It would look the 9th District would unfastened up and beryllium much competitory successful 2022.

The 12th Congressional District, which borders the 10^th to the south, would displacement northward to instrumentality successful the portion of Columbia County it does not incorporate present arsenic good arsenic each of McDuffie, Jefferson, Washington and Wilkinson counties. On its confederate end, the 12th would suffer Coffee, Jeff Davis, Appling and Wheeler counties.

The House did not merchandise their mentation of Georgia’s legislature map.

Georgia’s redistricting peculiar league begins Wednesday, November 3rd and is expected to tally though the week of Thanksgiving.