Womack sponsors congressional redistricting map

Published: January 17, 2024

By: Piper Naudin, LSU Manship School News Service

BATON ROUGE—The Louisiana Senate voted 27-11 Wednesday to approve a congressional redistricting map that would provide two majority-minority districts and has the support of Gov. Jeff Landry.

The bill next goes to the House, where a map that draws the districts somewhat differently was approved by a committee Wednesday. The full House will decide how it wants to proceed.

Both maps would turn the 6^th district seat now held by Republican U.S. Rep. Garrett Graves into the state’s second a majority-minority district and locate much of it in the center of the state.

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