The New York Legislature adopted a new set of congressional district lines Wednesday that appears to modestly benefit Democrats, part of a redistricting process that restarted after a court ruling last year.
The state Assembly and Senate passed the new map Wednesday with bipartisan votes. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that she had signed the map into law.
Jeffrey Wice, a professor at New York Law School and an expert on the state’s redistricting, said the new map may end up netting Democrats one congressional seat over the current map used in the 2022 elections.
