Boundary lines for the 17 districts of the Onondaga County Legislature must be redrawn again for the 2025 election. The ruling was handed down by a state Supreme Court justice.

The ruling shows the current boundaries of the county’s 17 legislative districts do not account for approximately 1,600 incarcerated people, one of the claims in a lawsuit by Democrats.

"In 2021, the Onondaga County Legislature Republicans rushed through heavily gerrymandered and partisan maps. County Legislator and Democratic Minority Leader Christopher Ryan not only opposed the maps but also the process in which they were drawn," Onondaga County Democratic Committee Chair Max Ruckdeschel said in a statement Tuesday morning.

However, Republican officials were quick to qwell talk that this was a win for the Democrats.

"Neither party used the prison-adjusted data when going through the redistricting process. New York State only provided this data after the adoption of the new maps in 2021," Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Timothy Burtis, a Republican, said in a statement. "It is imperative that those individuals are not only included but represented, and that all our residents feel they are being treated fairly. While the other side may tout this agreement as a 'win' for them, it is far from it. This is simply an agreement between attorneys from both sides to find a solution to an issue that was not known at the time the original district maps were drawn."

The legislative boundaries, passed as law in 2021, were used during the county’s 2023 election. New maps would be in place for the 2025 elections.