Miami: the state that redrew 21 of 28 districts
Miami-Dade is Florida's biggest county and, at 54 percent Democratic in 2020, its most closely fought big metro: a city that swung hard toward Republicans that year and has kept swinging since.
Under the 2022 map, below, the county was cut four ways: the 24th packed its Black neighbourhoods in the north into a seat three-quarters Democratic, and the 26th, 27th and 28th each took a slice of the rest and leaned Republican.
In April 2026, after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, Governor DeSantis called the legislature into special session and Florida redrew 21 of its 28 districts, the largest redraw of any state this cycle. The new map, below, packs the 24th even tighter and runs a fifth district into the county from the north.
Statewide, by the 2020 vote, the Democratic-leaning seats fall from eight to six. A Fair Districts lawsuit is in the courts; the map stands for the November election.
You are playing the Democrats. Miami-Dade votes 54 percent Democratic, yet three of the four districts that carve it lean Republican. Draw the three districts so the county's majority wins a majority of them.
Biden 53.7%, Trump 46.3%. Miami-Dade County's 2020 presidential vote.
Florida under the 2022 map, shaded by the 2020 vote: eight of the 28 districts lean Democratic, most of them along the south-east coast and around Orlando and Tampa.
The 2026 map, same shading: 21 districts redrawn and the Democratic-leaning seats cut to six, with Miami-Dade's votes spread across five districts instead of four.
2026 Florida redistricting (Wikipedia)
Florida Senate: congressional redistricting plan EOGPCRP2026