Florida's 23rd congressional district

Infobox U.S. congressional district
state = Florida
district number = 23


representative = Alcee Hastings
party = Democratic
english area =
metric area =
percent urban =
percent rural =
population = 639,295
population year = 2000
median income = 31,309
percent white = 37.5
percent black = 52.0
percent asian = 1.3
percent native american = 0.3
percent hispanic = 13.7
percent other race = 0.7
percent blue collar =
percent white collar =
percent gray collar =
cpvi = D + 29

Florida's 23rd congressional district is a congressional district in Florida. The residents of the 23nd district are represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Alcee Hastings.

The 23rd district is highly racially gerrymandered; it is a minority-majority district that is 52 percent black.

The district was created after the 1990 Census. Democrat Alcee Hastings was elected in the first election for the district in 1992 and was subsequently reelected.

Hastings was a former federal judge; he sat on the United States House of Representatives but was impeached and removed from office by Congress in 1989 on charges of bribery, although he was later acquitted of the criminal charges that resulted from the congressional probe. The Senate did not bar him from holding future federal public office at the time of his conviction (although they had the option to do so), and he was elected to the House in 1992. He is currently serving his seventh term. In 2006, he ran unopposed.

The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of D+29, making it very heavily Democratic safe seat; George W. Bush received only 24 percent of the vote in the district in the 2004 election.

External links

* [http://www.house.gov/alceehastings/ Rep. Alcee Hastings' official House of Representatives website]