US Redistricting Map Approved - Metro Detroit Shuffled - Incumbents scramble

[Lowell]

Michigan's redistricting commission voted to adopt new congressional districts Tuesday, creating political boundaries for the state's 13 U.S. House districts for the next decade. With one less seat a number of representatives find themselves in different districts and having to move.

The new map places the current hometowns of eight incumbents in the same districts, eliminates the two majority-Black districts that currently run through Detroit and chips away at the Republican advantage baked into the map in place today.

The new map - which the commission referred to as “Chestnut” - was backed by eight out of 13 of the randomly selected voters who serve on the commission, including two Democrats, two Republicans and four independents. Five commissioners voted for a different plan.

The new map sets up at least one primary battle between incumbents: U.S. Reps. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, and Haley Stevens, D-Rochester Hills, announced they were both running in a newly drawn southern Oakland County district. Stevens' hometown was moved into a new district that includes Sterling Heights and southern Macomb but her current district includes much of the new one she's running in.
https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com?publ...48ae40_1346041

Details and demographics here: https://michigan.mydistricting.com/l...ts/plan/273/23

Much better than the ridiculously gerrymandered 2010 map.