A day after rejecting a congressional map proposed by a bipartisan redistricting commission, Democrats in New York unveiled new district lines on Tuesday designed to help the party retake the House majority this fall.

Yet their plan exhibits surprising restraint. Although a pair of swing districts would become more Democratic, lawmakers in Albany left the partisan makeup of 24 of the state’s 26 districts largely intact.

The middle-ground approach reflected a desire to avoid another protracted court fight like the one in New York that helped swing control of the House to Republicans in 2022, while still better positioning Democrats in key districts.

The most salient changes would affect districts in Central New York and on Long Island. By shifting the districts three and four points leftward, the map would endanger Representative Brandon Williams, a Syracuse Republican, and make the seat won by Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, in a recent special election safely Democratic.

The Democratic map would also unwind changes proposed by the bipartisan commission that would have made the Hudson Valley district represented by Representative Marc Molinaro, a Republican, more conservative. The new district would look more like his current one, where President Biden won 52 percent of the vote in 2020.

Lawmakers in Albany were expected to vote to finalize the lines as soon as Tuesday, just hours after their overnight release. If enacted, they would govern elections through 2030.