The results of the lawsuit had major repercussions on the congressional races in Florida in 2016.

In 2014, Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis threw out the congressional map for violating Florida's 2010 Amendment 6 to the state Constitution, commonly called the Fair Districts Amendment.

[22] Gwen Graham Democratic Neal Dunn Republican Redistricting significantly altered the 2nd, mainly by shifting most of Tallahassee's African American residents to the 5th District.

Democrat Gwen Graham represented the district for one term after being elected in 2014, when she beat Republican incumbent Steve Southerland.

Representatives State legislators Organizations Dunn won the primary on August 30, 2016.

[25] Former Jacksonville City Councilman and former state representative Eric Smith announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination.

[59] On June 22, 2016, Smith announced that he was withdrawing from the race, leaving no Democratic candidates two days before the close of filing.

[60] Dave Bruderly, an environmental engineer who was the nominee for Florida's 6th congressional district in 2004 and 2006, qualified on the last day of filing,[61] and thus was nominated unopposed.

The new map pushed the 5th well to the north and west, and made it a more compact district stretching from Tallahassee to Jacksonville.

In July 2016, Brown and her chief of staff were indicted on charges of fraud.

[62] In the Democratic primary—the real contest in this district—she was defeated by former state senator Al Lawson of Tallahassee.

Representatives State legislators Local officials Organizations Local officials State legislators John Mica Republican Stephanie Murphy Democratic Republican John Mica had represented the 7th District since 1992.

In 2012, when Mica ran for re-election, he won with 59% of the vote, his smallest margin of victory in twenty years.

Mica ran for re-election and wound up only facing Mark Busch in the primary election after John Morning ended his campaign in November 2015.

[114][115] Banker Bill Phillips announced a run for the seat on October 19, 2015,[118] but suspended his campaign in February 2016, and ended it in April.

[119] Stephanie Murphy, a businesswoman, Rollins College professor and former U.S. Defense Department national security specialist, entered the race on June 23, 2016, and ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

On July 9, 2015, Grayson announced he would run for U.S. Senate in 2016 rather than seek re-election.

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Representatives State legislators Labor unions Organizations Newspapers Local officials Individuals Soto was declared the winner of the Democratic primary for the 9th District on August 30, 2016.

However, after redistricting made the 10th substantially more Democratic, Webster opted to run in the neighboring 11th District, which included a slice of his former territory.

[201] Geoff LaGarde[202] withdrew his name from the race on June 24, and endorsed Thuy Lowe for the nomination.

[259] If Buchanan had not run for re-election, potential Republican candidates expected to be interested in running included Senate Majority Leader Bill Galvano, State Senator Nancy Detert, former state senator Pat Neal, Manatee County Supervisor of Elections Mike Bennett, State Representative Greg Steube, and Sarasota Sheriff Tom Knight.

On March 23, 2015, he announced that he would run for U.S. Senate rather than reelection, creating an open seat.

Murphy defeated Alan Grayson in the primary on August 30, 2016, and faced Marco Rubio in the November general election.

[334] Boca Raton businessman Joseph Bensmihen was challenging Frankel as a Republican.