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New York Democrats could pick up 3 congressional seats under new maps
New York’s 27-member congressional delegation currently has 19 Democrats and eight Republicans. That delegation is due to decrease to 26 members after the state’s population grew less rapidly than other states’.ALBANY, N.Y. — New York legislators introduced a redistricting plan that could allow the size of the state’s Democratic delegation in Congress to grow from 19 to as many as 22 members.
The maps are expected to be approved in the coming week. Democrats, who have supermajorities in both houses of the Legislature, are poised to control the outcome of the mapmaking process in New York for the first time in generations.
— Moderate Republican Rep. John Katko’s looming retirement from his Syracuse-area seat was already making the path to retaining a seat more difficult for the GOP in a district that preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump by 9 percentage points. The new maps would add deep-blue Tompkins County, home of Ithaca, to that district.
New York Democrats could pick up 3 congressional seats under new maps
New York’s 27-member congressional delegation currently has 19 Democrats and eight Republicans. That delegation is due to decrease to 26 members after the state’s population grew less rapidly than other states’.
