by Stacy Mathew, Staff Writer
Maryland Democrats plan to redraw the state’s Congressional District map in order to include most of Rockville and part of Germantown in District 6. District 6 currently extends from Garrett County to Hartford County and only includes a small portion of Montgomery County. Democrats hope that this redistricting will be beneficial in April’s primary elections.
Courtesy of http://www.mdp.state.md.us
Maryland Democrats are in favor of redrawing District 6 as part of the 2012 Congressional Redistricting.
The potential map would draw parts of Montgomery County, known for being majority Democrat, into District 6, causing the number of voters to increase from 20,000 to 35,000. The potential map of District 6 would contain Frederick and Gaithersburg counties as well as Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties. “District 6 would be 51 percent or 53 percent Democratic,” said Elizabeth Paul, chairwoman of the Washington County Democratic Central Committee. “Certainly, we would be thrilled to have some good, strong Democratic candidates in the race and have a little bit better shot at actually winning the race than the current District 6 allows us,” she said.
Andrew Harris, Maryland’s other Republican representative, will also have to deal with changes made to his Eastern Shore district. The changes would add much of Hartford County and parts of Northern Carroll and Baltimore counties into the Eastern Shore district; the district will no longer include the residents of Anne Arundel County. Other minor changes will also be made to the rest of the districts.
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