Sentences with phrase «congressional districts»

The petition must contain 100 signatures from each of the state's congressional districts; only voters belong to the same party as the candidate can sign the petition.

McCain comfortably won the electoral votes tied to the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts.

The tables below provide demographic information for each of Washington's congressional districts as of 2015.

The tables below provide demographic information for each of Massachusetts» congressional districts as of 2015.

The safest answer is that it will tend to help whichever party is in control of the redistricting process in a given state: the fewer legal constraints that party has, the freer it will be to draw Congressional districts as it sees fit.

Working to expand the number of competitive congressional districts this fall, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has landed Colorado state Sen. Gail Schwartz to take on Rep. Scott Tipton in the 3rd District.

However, the polarization of Congressional districts became sharper again in 2012.

Deliberations over drawing new legislative and congressional districts continue in Albany, as legislators have hit a new hurdle in the complex process.

While it's unclear if this letter is a precursor to action, six of the eight IDC members are in Democratic congressional districts.

Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney, who is up for re-election in one of the most competitive congressional districts in America, made national news when she told radio host Fred Dicker that Democrats are more prone to be mass shooters, «but the media doesn't talk about that.»

The Outdoor Industry Association released its report for all 435 congressional districts in the U.S., and NY - 21 is solidly in the top 20 in terms of economic output related to outdoor pursuits, to the tune of $ 1.5 billion annually.

Republicans turned their new state legislative majorities into laboratories of right - wing extremism — attacking women's right to choose, busting unions, gerrymandering Republican congressional districts, and so much more.

Balanced against their skills and resources will be the political fundamentals, including the relative popularity of Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress and the basic demographics of individual congressional districts and those states up for grabs.

According to Barron, his supporters collected names in every one of the state's 29 congressional districts and passed the 100 - name limit in 23 of those (the requirement is at least 100 in 15 districts, so candidates can't just stand on a single busy street corner in NYC and get onto the ballot).

Currently Queens is carved up by Congressional districts a non partisan plan would keep queens whole.

Cox notes Republicans held all of their congressional seats while also fending off challenges from Democrats in both the 19th and 22nd congressional districts.

Even when we didn't have specific information pre-prepackaged (press releases, policy analyses, details about how particular Congressional districts would be affected, video B - roll, etc.), we had staff on hand who were primed to do the research and put critical material together quickly, often in hours.

The United States has now got meticulously equal Congressional districts within each State.

The state Democratic Committee and Gov. Andrew Cuomo plan to target Republican congressional districts and state Senate districts in a campaign beginning tomorrow aimed at strengthening sexual harassment and abortion measures, a party official said.

Congressional districts are more concentrated.

Also note that congressional districts are more partisan than states are.

Notice how in congressional districts, the Democrats are most concentrated; while in states, the Republicans are.

Good point about Republicans states being more concentrated in states and Democrats more concentrated in congressional districts.

To quickly recap what happened — Senate Republicans and Assembly Democrats couldn't agree on a map for congressional districts.

For example, Maine has four Electoral votes and two Congressional districts.

The state Democratic Committee on Sunday announced a push to register new voters in Republican - held congressional districts in New York.

Also, the proceeds of defense spending are strategically distributed across key states and Congressional districts to ensure popular support.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

Anyway, with this year's post-Census line - drawing just about done (about whose implications you were warned in 2009), Google's put together a handy map of new Congressional districts across the country:

First, it can refer to federal congressional districts.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

State election law requires that at least 100 of those signatures come from each of half the state's 29 congressional districts.

In 11 newly - drawn congressional districts in 11 seats, the enrollment difference between enrolled Democrats and Republicans is less than 40,000.

But if we assume all congressional districts in ME and NE vote as their state does, 2 ^ 51.

Now, he and his number two pick will endeavor to collect a minimum of 15,000 signatures (at least 100 must be collected in 15 of the state's 29 congressional districts).

Basically, a candidate can target a minimum of fifteen congressional districts out of the 29 to petition in.

A state can decide to re-draw its Congressional districts pretty much any time it wants, and any way it wants that will survive court challenges.

In Iowa, there are four congressional districts.

Tom Steyer: $ 20,000,000 would support at least 200 paid field organizers in crucial congressional districts for an entire year (assuming 100k per head for pay & expenses).

The Post noted an interesting point in an article that also has a lot of details about election - eve operations — because of the time required to set up a significant turnout effort, the Republicans haven't had time to roll one out in congressional districts that have suddenly become vulnerable in the last few weeks.

And as the state - level victors of 2010 redraw legislative and congressional districts across the country, they'll also be establishing the boundaries of power in Congress and 50 different statehouses.

There are six counties in Iowa that voted Democratic for president, but they are spread over the four congressional districts.

His father, Charles, a financially secure, 59 - year - old retired lingerie manufacturer, likes to point out that Mike, born and raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, grew up in one of the most liberal congressional districts in the U.S..

Brewers Association sponsored the participation of two representatives of Craft Maltster Guild in NBIC activities, thereby spreading the geographic reach and relevance of the barley crop and malting and brewing business activities into dozens of additional congressional districts and states.

Data can be streamlined and researched on national and state levels, as well as by congressional districts.

Cabrera also serves as a city councilman for his district of the Bronx, one of the poorest congressional districts in the United States.

The vast majority of electoral races are foregone conclusions: Only 90 of the 435 congressional districts up for election in 2014 were considered «competitive,» and even these were decided by a vote margin up to 5 percent.

(CNN)- Tuesday's special election to replace scandalized New York Rep. Anthony Weiner is happening in one of the most Jewish and most Democratic congressional districts in the country, but the frontrunner is neither a Democrat nor Jewish.

Ottawa, September 22, 2017 - Canadian - owned companies have operations in all but one of the 435 congressional districts in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to an analysis of Canada's economic footprint in the United States.

The Atlas of Redistricting: What should congressional districts look like?