Florida voters approve the Fair Districts amendments banning partisan gerrymandering

Florida voters approved Amendments 5 and 6 — the Fair Districts Amendments — on November 2, 2010, with 63 percent of the vote, writing anti-gerrymandering standards directly into the Florida Constitution. The amendments banned the legislature from drawing congressional and state legislative maps that favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent, and required maps to follow county and city boundaries. The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature was the primary target, having drawn every redistricting map since 1992 to protect incumbent and partisan advantage.