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The Democratic Party has won several United States House of Representatives seats that Florida\u2019s Republican-led legislature redrew<\/a> to favour the GOP in a redistricting effort.<\/p>\n In a sweeping result reflecting Democrats\u2019 broader midterm election victory<\/a>, Kathy Castor held Florida\u2019s 14th congressional district, which swung nearly 16 percentage points towards Democrats compared with its 2024 presidential vote.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Democratic first-time candidate Pia Dandiya won the 22nd district, and Jared Moskowitz retained the 25th.<\/p>\n Notably, the race between incumbent Darren Soto and Republican challenger Dan Green in Florida\u2019s 9th district remained the closest of the four, with Soto holding a slim lead as the final votes were counted on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The wins add to a wave of Democratic victories across the nation, in an election widely cast as a referendum<\/a> on President Donald Trump. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, including at least 54 Senate seats, a major setback for Trump that could provide a significant check on his power in his final two years in office.<\/p>\n Florida\u2019s returns also offer another measure of the electoral headwinds facing Republicans<\/a> this election cycle, despite tilting the district map in their favour to make several seats more Republican-friendly.<\/p>\n Longtime Trump ally and outgoing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> and the state\u2019s Republican-controlled legislature redrew Florida\u2019s congressional map in April, seeking to bolster the party\u2019s chances of retaining control of the US House.<\/p>\n The move formed part of an unprecedented nationwide Republican effort<\/a> to secure a structural advantage ahead of the midterms by reshaping the boundaries of congressional representation.<\/p>\n The revised boundaries gave Trump\u2019s party a lead in four Democratic-held districts: the 9th, 14th, 22nd, and 25th, and were explicitly engineered to compress the state\u2019s Democratic delegation in the US House.<\/p>\n Under the new map, signed into law by DeSantis in May, Trump would have carried three of the four districts by double-digit margins during his 2024 presidential campaign, and the fourth by roughly 9 percentage points.<\/p>\n At the time, some had argued<\/a> that redrawing the map may backfire on Republicans, diluting the party\u2019s strongholds and tightening margins at a time when Trump\u2019s approval ratings had dipped to an all-time low<\/a> amid the economic knock-ons of the US-Israel war on Iran.<\/p>\n Redistricting is the process of redrawing electoral boundaries, usually after the US census every 10 years, to account for population shifts and ensure districts maintain roughly equal populations.<\/p>\n The boundaries determine which voters are grouped together to elect a representative to the US House.<\/p>\n Because the party in power in a state legislature often has a hand in drawing the map, the process can be used to give one party an electoral advantage \u2013 a practice known as gerrymandering.<\/p>\n