Florida's 8th House District elects one member of the

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. The district is represented by

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. The district is located in the

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, and encompasses part of the Big Bend. The district covers all of

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, as well as central Leon County. The largest city in the district is state capital

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, though this district excludes the downtown and northeastern portions of the city. As of the 2010 Census, the district's population is 156,188. This district is

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. This district covers part of the eastern Panhandle, including the heavily

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population in Gadsden County and the college population in the

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. As a result, it has skewed heavily Democratic, with Republicans almost never contesting it. This district contains

Florida A&M University Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), commonly known as Florida A&M, is a public historically black land-grant university in Tallahassee, Florida. Founded in 1887, It is the third largest historically black university in the U ...

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, and a campus of

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, all located in Tallahassee. The district also contains

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. James Harold Thompson served as the

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from 1984 until 1986.

Representatives from 1967 to the present

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Representatives from 1967 to the present

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