"Rep. Jared Huffman was heartened by the blue wave that swept through Tuesday's off-year elections - capped by voters' approval of Proposition 50, a measure that reshapes California's congressional map and could give Democrats a decisive boost in the U.S. House. "If you're a pro-democracy, Team America person, you just feel like the county's waking up," said Huffman, a Democrat from San Rafael."
"RELATED: Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington Prop. 50 scraps the state's independent redistricting process in favor of a map drawn by legislators, giving Democrats a potential pickup of five House seats and countering GOP-led redistricting moves in Texas and other Republican-controlled states. California's Citizens Redistricting Commission is set to resume oversight of district maps in 2031."
Proposition 50 replaces California's independent redistricting commission with a map drawn by legislators, potentially delivering Democrats up to five additional U.S. House seats and offsetting GOP redistricting gains elsewhere. The Citizens Redistricting Commission will resume map oversight in 2031. New boundaries significantly reconfigure Northern California's 1st, 2nd and 4th congressional districts, forcing incumbents to introduce themselves to more politically mixed constituencies and spurring speculation about potential candidates in the reshaped 1st District. Representative Jared Huffman's already vast 2nd District expands, uniting diverse areas from ultra-liberal Marin to deeply conservative Modoc County, and he plans to travel, listen and assess.
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