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Virginia lawmakers struck a deal Saturday to create a 16-member redistricting commission that will redraw the state’s political map after the 2020 U.S. census, voting to approve the plan despite objections from African-American lawmakers.

The initial passage of a constitutional amendment was a breakthrough for anti-gerrymandering advocates who for years have pushed to take map-drawing power away from the General Assembly and give it to an independent panel.

“Although this bipartisan plan does not reflect every provision we urged in our original proposal, make no mistake: This reform will end partisan gerrymandering in Virginia,” said Brian Cannon, executive director of the anti-gerrymandering group OneVirginia2021.

The proposal that passed the House of Delegates and the Senate on Saturday evening calls for a bipartisan commission made up of eight citizen members and eight legislative members, four from the Senate and four from the House.

Legislative leaders would each come up with a list of possible citizen members, and a panel of five retired judges would select an equal number of citizen members from the lists proposed by each party.