Florida’s 2020 Census Data to Turn U.S. House Further Red in 2022 Midterms After ‘Activist Judge’ Drew Districts in 2010Wendell Husebo 27 Apr 2021
Florida will obtain one additional district in the U.S. House of Representatives just in time for the 2022 midterms, the Census Bureau indicated Monday.
With Florida’s population increase of 2.73 million or 14.6 percent, a newly drawn district may be carved into Republican held Central Florida, according to the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research’s (BEBR) growth data.
The data suggests Central Florida, which roughly includes Lake, Sumter (The Villages), Polk Osceola, and Orange counties through the I4 corridor, has the largest combined population growth of an estimated 15 percent plus. In real numbers, each of those counties has grown by more than 60,000 people.
Comparatively, South Florida, a typically bluer part of the state, has grown between 7.5 percent to 14.9 percent. South Florida has similar growth in terms of absolute numbers.
In addition to the data, the state’s Republican dominated legislature will ultimately decide how the new district will be shaped. The legislature will begin the process when the 2020 census data is officially broken down later this year, updating BEBR’s data.
Lake County’s Property Appraiser and former Republican State Senator Carey Baker informed Breitbart News he expects the new district to be created in the vicinity of the I4 corridor, a politically coveted piece of real estate that runs from Orlando in Orange County to Tampa, Florida.
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