Dividing Jacksonville

A federal court rejected for a second time the Jacksonville City Council’s redistricting plan, finding that the new plan passed by the council didn’t fix the racial gerrymandering that led the court to strike down a prior map.

Instead, U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard said the city must use a redistricting plan drawn by the plaintiffs who sued the city.

The new map will affect the coming City Council elections in March 2023. Fourteen of the city’s 19 council members are elected to districts while the other five are elected countywide.

NOTE: Red lines indicate Duval County school board districts, which are made up of two council districts. Yellow dots indicate where council members live, and orange dots indicate where school board members live.