City Council redistricting is underway and it’s not a pretty sight, as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s allies get rewarded and Baltimore’s racial politics get played out more overtly than usual.

The mayor’s map appears to have enough votes to pass, according to a Baltimore Sun piece today on the controversial process of redrawing city councilmanic districts. (Changes proposed to the 7^th District, however,  might prompt litigation.)

Here are a few of the winners and losers under Rawlings-Blake’s plan:

WINNER: William H. Cole IV

Cole’s predominantly white and wealthy 11^th District gets whiter and wealthier, with the addition of Locust Point and part of Federal Hill.

LOSER: Belinda Conaway

The 7^th District representative would lose white voters, as parts of Remington and Hampden are lopped off and given to adjacent districts to the east. Increasing the concentration of blacks in her district would violate the Civil Rights Act, Conaway claims.

LOSER: Black city residents

So says, former NAACP branch president Marvin L. “Doc” Cheathem, who says African American voting power is diluted under the plan.

WINNER:  Brandon M. Scott

The re-jiggered 2nd District has a larger percentage of black residents, a boon to the African-American Scott, who is expected to run for a seat in this district. Scott works in Rawlings-Blake’s Office of Neighborhoods.

LOSER: Latino city residents

Slicing and dicing in Upper Fells Point splits them up into three districts.

LOSER: Several Upper Fells Point neighborhoods

They are unhappy about the idea of winding up in Warren Branch’s heavily black 13^th District, seeing themselves more as 1^st District neighborhoods. The First includes Canton and Harbor East.

WINNER: Edward Reisinger

The 10th District representative barely won survived a challenge in the 2007 election. The new map expands his district around his southwest Morrell Park base.