ST. PAUL — A proposed remake of a Minnesota congressional district map would lump Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum into a district with Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann, the presidential hopeful who hasn’t ruled out another bid for Congress should her current campaign fail.

The pairing is a key feature of a map put forward by Democratic Party lawyers Friday. It’s an option for a special state court panel to consider as it oversees the politically charged process known as redistricting.

It came at the deadline for the parties to submit ideal versions of congressional and legislative maps. The court panel expects to issue a verdict in late February, fewer than nine months before the 2012 election.

Every 10 years district boundaries are adjusted to account for population changes in the census. The aim is to create districts for each office with similar numbers of people.

Republicans previously crafted a congressional map that leaves all eight Minnesota incumbents in separate districts but dramatically alters the shape of some. Their submission to the court Friday mirrors the earlier map.