Redistricting

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Florida’s new congressional map have launched a statewide tour aimed at educating Black voters about changes to the state's U.S. House district lines.

Bonita Springs will continue to put two communities into different districts for city council elections. That means people in Bonita Bay and Pelican Landing will be in different districts when voting for candidates for council.

Bonita Springs is facing a controversial decision on how to make up city council districts for the next decade. Socio-economic issues are being raised about possibly combining Bonita Bay and Pelican Landing in the same district.

FGCU political scientists provide insight and analysis of what to expect in Florida’s 2022 legislative session which begins Tuesday.

The 2020 U.S. Census data shows that Fort Myers has not only grown in population, but that its composition has changed drastically too, with a significant bump in diversity.

The City of Fort Myers will begin hosting redistricting public meetings starting December 2, 2021. Find out how to participate in the process to update the City's Ward boundaries based on the the 2020 Census results.

With a 3-2 vote, Lee County Commissioners formally adopted new county district maps Tuesday, despite cries from the public to reconsider their choice. It’s a choice that some say could result in Lee County’s redistricting process winding up in federal court.

The Lee Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to move forward with Map Alternative 5 as the selected map for the 2021 redistricting process. One commissioner openly expressed his disappointment in the decision, and advocates wanting to reunite Dunbar and Fort Myers say a lawsuit may be incoming.

Today is National Voter Registration Day, the largest one-day effort to register voters in the U.S. Local registration events were hosted this morning by…

A prolonged battle over district maps between Florida lawmakers and the state Supreme Court came to an end earlier this year. Now a South Florida...