Morning Digest: We've got new data for New York's new House map
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● New York: With New York's new congressional map now in effect, Daily Kos Elections is rolling out a batch of updates to some of our most frequently used data sets.
Up first is our chart of the results of the 2020 presidential election broken down by congressional district. Democrats, who held the reins in drawing a new map, mostly made only small changes to the lines that were imposed two years ago by a court. According to calculations by Daily Kos Elections, just 6% of the state's population moved between districts.
The overall changes to the map were so modest that Ed Cox, the chair of the state Republican Party, said the new map was "not materially different" from last cycle's court-drawn map. However, a few districts did see some notable adjustments that could have an impact on elections this fall.