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Florida’s Sixth District stretches from the St. Johns River and Jacksonville , sweeping through the Heart of North Central Florida , encompassing portions of Gainesville and Ocala , meandering down to the northern tip of the Orlando metropolitan area, in Lake County .

The district contains over 525,000 registered voters, of whom just over 39% are Democratic , while slightly more than 41% identify as Republican . 80 percent of the District is white, with 9.7 percent identified as black and 3.1 percent Hispanic. George W. Bush and Bob Dole received 61% of the vote in this district in 2004. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of R +8.

The district is currently represented by Republican Cliff Stearns .