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Florida's 6th congressional district

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Area
  
2,682 sq mi (6,950 km)

Cook PVI
  
R+4

Florida's 6th congressional district

Current Representative
  
Ron DeSantis (R–Ponte Vedra Beach)

NOTE: This district's boundaries were changed in 2016. This map is not presently accurate.

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Florida's 6th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Florida. The district stretches from the southern Jacksonville suburbs to New Smyrna Beach. It includes the cities of St. Augustine and Daytona Beach.

From 2003 to 2013 the district stretched from the St. Johns River and Jacksonville, sweeping through North Central Florida, encompassing portions of Gainesville and Ocala, and meandered down to the northern tip of the Greater Orlando area in Lake County. It included all of Bradford and Gilchrist counties and portions of Alachua, Clay, Duval, Lake, Levy, and Marion counties.

The district is currently represented by Republican Ron DeSantis.

Presidential voting history

The district contains over 525,000 registered voters, of whom just over 39% are Democratic, while slightly more than 41% identify as Republican.

Living former Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 6th congressional district

As of January 2017, these are two former members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 6th congressional district who are currently living at this time. The most recent representative to die was Bill Young (1973-1983) on October 18, 2013

References

Florida's 6th congressional district Wikipedia