Sentences with phrase «congressional map»

It is the first cycle whose winners will participate in drawing congressional maps for the decade starting in 2021.

We went back to the drawing board and drew a set of alternative congressional maps for the entire country.

The decision, handed down in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, orders the Virginia General Assembly to draw up new congressional maps by April — potentially launching a frenzied and highly political battle for survival within Virginia's congressional delegation.

Last month, the legislature adjourned without making any headway on Congressional map.

That there are still no proposed congressional maps out should be considered utterly contemptuous on the part of our state legislature.

[101] The passed congressional map was expected to give advantages to Republicans in 10 out of 13 districts.

Running in a redrawn Congressional map favoring the GOP, at least three Democratic Congressmen will not be coming back to Capitol Hill.

a federal three - judge panel is poised to adopt a set of court - drawn congressional maps with minimal changes.

[A] new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law finds that extreme partisan bias in congressional maps account for at least 16 - 17 Republican seats in the current Congress

And she encouraged activists to work to elect more state legislators before the next congressional maps are drawn after the 2020 Census.

Rather than the usual, meandering districts that typify most Congressional maps, California's new map boasts compact and geographically based districts that unify neighboring towns with similar cultural, socio - economic, and racial backgrounds.

A federal court drew a new Empire State Congressional map after the split Legislature remained deadlocked for a year on drawing new lines with two fewer districts.

According to a source familiar with the results of these polls, Hanna's numbers improved in the Binghamton and Utica portions of the district — two areas on which his TV ad buys have specifically focused, in part because the district lines changed significantly in the court - drawn congressional map used for the fist time in the 2012 elections.

McEneny: Congressional maps yet to be drawn Politics on the Hudson.

Talks between the Senate and Assembly on a comprehensive redistricting package bogged down over arguments about how to reconfigure congressional maps.

However, Mr. Turner quickly found himself without a clear reelection scenario as the court - drawn congressional map divided his district up between neighboring, heavily Democratic, districts.

If the court throws out the current congressional map, Arizona's districts are almost certain to become more favorable to Republicans, imperiling members such as Kirkpatrick.

Updated 11:20 a.m. The Supreme Court upheld Arizona's congressional map Monday, declaring in a 5 - 4 ruling the use of an independent redistricting commission that drew House district lines in the 2012 cycle did not violate the Constitution.

It would also give the Democrats veto power over congressional maps that are set to be redrawn after 2020.

There's a sour national political environment, a history of the president's party losing seats in midterms and an unfavorable congressional map drawn mostly by Republicans.

On Friday, Assemblyman and Democratic Party County Leader Carl Heastie released a letter expressing the Bronx political establishment's «utter disappointment» with the LATFOR congressional maps and calling on the federal special master to reject the plans.

Next: Pennsylvania's top court tosses congressional map, finds state constitutional violation

WASHINGTON — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week struck down the state's congressional map as a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Pennsylvania Constitution.

North Carolina Republicans are gearing up for a showdown between 13th District Rep. George Holding and 2nd District Rep. Renee Ellmers as a result of a proposed new congressional map the General Assembly approved Friday.

Over at Daily Kos Elections, they've been analyzing what the new court - proposed congressional map would mean for the partisan makeup of each district and the incumbent it houses.

The Florida Secretary of State submitted an alternative election schedule Friday to a state judge who is considering whether or not a redrawn congressional map should apply to the midterms.

Jimmy Vielkind (Capital Confidential) reported on Thursday afternoon that a federal three - judge panel is poised to adopt a set of court - drawn congressional maps with minimal changes.

The potential showdown between the two Democrats would have been the first major challenge to an incumbent that came about as a result of the independently drawn congressional maps.

After much anticipation, the federal courts have released new congressional maps for the State of New York tonight.

The congressional map of Austin is a particular favorite of mine, since that bastion of Texas liberalism is split among districts that meander all across South and Central Texas in an obvious attempt to dilute Democratic votes.

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to block new congressional maps that could tilt several key races in Democrats» favor from being used in the midterm elections.

A new congressional map was passed by the state legislative commission in late 2011 by a tight vote in which the independent chairman sided with the GOP.

Pennsylvania hosted its first primaries Tuesday under a new congressional map, solidifying general election matchups in an important swing state.

For months, lawmakers in Albany have been holding hearings as part of the once - a-decade redistricting process to redraw legislative and congressional maps.

But after a court last month upheld the state's congressional map drawn by an independent commission and thus, the makeup of her Democratic - leaning House district, national Democrats think that Sinema, one of the party's rising stars, might just wait for another opportunity down the road.

The GOP surge at the state level allowed them to lock in many of their gains — and cement their advantage on the congressional map — through the redistricting process that followed.

(The governor chose not to intervene on behalf of his fellow Democrats in a dispute over a new congressional map, and actually greatly helped the Republicans who hold the New York State Senate during the redistricting process.)

But Republicans see a far rosier picture when they look at the state's Congressional map, which has been reduced to 27 districts from 29 to reflect national population shifts identified by the 2010 Census.

Concern that the special master's congressional maps will cost Democrats seats in true blue New York has spurred House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to get involved in the state's redistricting battle.

A spokesman for Senate Republicans declined to comment, and Albany Assemblyman Jack McEneny, LATFOR's Democratic co-chair, said it would submit a congressional map by Wednesday.

In 2012, Republicans re-drew the congressional map following the decennial redistricting process, making several fought - over House districts less competitive.

He's rationalized his retreat in increments, from his warning that a court - run redrawing of the lines would result in «chaos,» to the subjective conditions he laid out for an acceptable gerrymander, to his uncharacteristic claim of powerlessness, to his criticism of an independent judge's congressional map, to his lightly supported characterization of the latest gerrymandered legislative draft - map as «progress» from the previous gerrymandered version.

Several districts in the Old Dominion State could become more competitive depending on how a three - judge court redraws the state's congressional map.

Even though Republicans control the state Senate, New York operatives of both parties agreed that Cuomo could have cajoled Republicans in Albany to agree to a Congressional map more favorable to Democrats.

Backed by President Obama, Eric H. Holder Jr. will lead the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a group aimed at breaking the Republican Party's grip on the congressional map.

The congressional maps were due this week.

Assemblyman John McEneny, D - Albany, said the committee plans to release new district maps for the state Senate and Assembly early next week, but hasn't penned a rough draft of the state's new congressional map.