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- In New York, the districts for Congress and the State Senate were created by a court-appointed special master in mid-May after a protracted legal fight. The Assembly lines were created by the Democrat-controlled state legislature after a newly-created commission charged with creating the new lines failed to do so, and split along partisan lines.
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Feb 15, 2024 · Under the new map, New York's 22nd Congressional District would be changing. The district under the map used for the 2022 election includes all of Onondaga County, Oneida County and Madison County and a sliver of Oswego County. It includes the cities of Syracuse, Utica and Rome.
May 16, 2022 · The lines set out by Cervas will create the political boundaries for New Yorkers’ next set of elected officials to be chosen by voters in an August 23 primary, a date chosen by the Court of Appeals in its recent redistricting ruling.
Jul 13, 2023 · On Thursday, July 13, an appellate state court ordered New York’s Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) to redraw the state’s congressional map. This decision stems from a lawsuit brought in June 2022 by New York voters, alleging that the IRC failed to complete its mandatory redistricting duties. This decision requires the IRC to ...
Aug 11, 2021 · New York State currently has 27 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, 63 state Senate districts and 150 Assembly districts. But New York will be losing one seat in Congress based on the statewide population count already released by the Census, in which New York fell 89 people short.
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This section lists major events in the post-2020 census redistricting cycle in reverse chronological order. Major events include the release of apportionment data, the release of census population data, the introduction of formal map proposals, the enactment of new maps, and noteworthy court challenges. Click the dates below for additional informat...
Enacted congressional district maps
1. 1.1. See also: Congressional district maps implemented after the 2020 census
Enacted state legislative district maps
1. 1.1. See also: State legislative district maps implemented after the 2020 census
On March 14, 2012, the state legislature approved a constitutional amendment to establish new redistricting procedures beginning in 2020. The New York Constitutionrequires that two successive legislatures approve an amendment in order to qualify it for final approval by popular vote. The legislature approved the amendment a second time in 2013. On ...
Apportionment is the process by which representation in a legislative body is distributed among its constituents. The number of seats in the United States House of Representativesis fixed at 435. The United States Constitution dictates that districts be redrawn every 10 years to ensure equal populations between districts. Every ten years, upon comp...
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signs change in redistricting process into law
On November 24, 2021, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed SB S7150 into law, which allowed the New York State Legislature to consider redistricting maps that were either voted on or drafted by the New York Independent Redistricting Commission in the event that the commission does not approve maps by the deadline. Previously in such circumstances, the commission was only requiredto submit maps that it held a vote on and that received the highest number of approval votes. The New York State Senate approve...
This section includes background information on federal requirements for congressional redistricting, state legislative redistricting, state-based requirements, redistricting methods used in the 50 states, gerrymandering, and recent court decisions.
FiveThirtyEight, "What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State"New York enacted new State Assembly district boundaries on April 24, 2023, when Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation establishing them for use starting with the 2024 elections. The bill adopting the districts passed earlier that day in the State Assembly by a vote of 132-13, and it passed the state Senate by a vote of 59-1.
Welcome to the website of the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission. We are proud to serve on New York’s first bipartisan Commission responsible for drawing our State’s district lines after the 2020 Census. As you navigate our website, we want you to know that we need your help.
