Sentences with phrase «draw congressional district»

The state legislature argued that the use of the word «legislature» in this context is literal; therefore, only a state legislature may draw congressional district lines.

In two states, politician commissions draw congressional district lines.

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

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.).

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.

The newly drawn Congressional district encompasses parts of Orange, Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties.

In 37 states, legislatures are primarily responsible for drawing congressional district lines.

With ASDC's strong backing, I am confident about gaining the trust and votes of the majority in the new drawn congressional district.

Still, Diaz's support could be pivotal in the newly drawn congressional district, which includes a portion of The Bronx, as well as the north Manhattan neighborhoods of Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood.

U.S. Rep. Steve Israel reflects on potentially representing northeast Queens communities under newly drawn congressional districts.

To draw a perfect analogy, a professional redistricting commission would draw Congressional districts without the objective of creating safe seats for either party as a policy and content monitor at «The Fix» would have the objective of creating civil, on - topic discourse.

While the new method doesn't provide a new tool for drawing congressional district maps, it does provide a rigorous test to detect that existing maps were created in a biased fashion, and researchers may find applications in the many other fields where Markov Chains are used.

Not exact matches

A federal judge found congressional districts were drawn to limit influence of Hispanic voters.

Drawing Along Party Lines: Looking at Pennsylvania's new congressional - district map, one thing is clear: It's impossible to scrub politics from map - making.

Census data, in part, determines where federal money is spent and how congressional districts are drawn.

As congressional districts are currently drawn, Democrats have virtually no chance of taking back the House of Representatives.

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:

I'm referring exclusively to the lines for legislative districts, because state lawmakers don't directly benefit from the way congressional lines are drawn.

For example, the website Draw Congress compiled publicly - generated maps for both Congressional and state legislative districts.

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

The map to the right depicts New York's congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

The map to the right depicts Massachusetts» congressional district lines as drawn following the 2010 United States Census.

[51] Subsequently, with Obama drawn out of Rush's Congressional district, the incumbent faced no primary challenger in 2002 or 2004.

In Washington, congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn by a five - member independent commission.

«As we look forward to a vigorous political agenda for 2012, including a Presidential primary, a US Senate race, and newly drawn line for Congressional and legislative districts, this leadership team, along with our tremendous staff in Albany and New York City, ensures that our State Party is fully prepared to meet the challenges ahead,» Cox said.

In a congressional district that they didn't draw?

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.

In New Hampshire, both congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn by the state legislature.

The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission is responsible for drawing both congressional and state legislative district lines.

Reform groups are split over the merits of a November ballot item to change the way new legislative and congressional districts are drawn in New York.

Voters like the idea (69 - 20) of an independent redistricting commission of the sort being pushed by former NYC Mayor Ed Koch and his NY Uprising PAC and believe (71 - 14) taking the power of drawing legislative and congressional district lines would make for more competitive elections in the future.

A civic coalition seeking to improve how Albany governs is asking incumbents and candidates for state office this year to pledge publicly to back strict fiscal controls on state spending, stronger ethics and financial disclosure regulations, and a nonpartisan system for drawing legislative and Congressional districts.

JAMESTOWN - The man running against Congressman Tom Reed (R - Corning) for the newly drawn 23rd Congressional District is criticizing his opponent for his unwillingness to participate in several debates.

Under the Assembly Democrats» plan, Democratic congressman Joe Crowley and Turner would be drawn into the same congressional district, and Lancman has said explicitly that he's not challenging Crowley.

District lines drawn after the census this year will help shape the outcome of future legislative and Congressional races.

The state's Democratic congressional roster could grow by half a dozen, a huge boost for the party's bid to take back the House this fall, thanks to new district lines drawn by the state's highest court.

Whoever the candidates are for the 25th Congressional District, the race will draw national attention.

Political lines are being drawn as the Republican candidates battle for their party's nomination in New York's 27th Congressional district.

In New Jersey, congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn by two distinct politician commissions.

(CNN)- Freshman Republican Rep. Allen West, who was backed by the Tea Party in last November's election, has drawn another challenger in the 2012 race for Florida's 22nd Congressional District.

Congressional districts are yet to be drawn.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who has called for a nonpartisan commission to draw congressional and state legislative districts, called the ruling «a tremendous step forward in the fight for free and fair elections.»

That's because, through redistricting, they will help draw the competitive congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade of races.

After Buerkle served one term, Maffei returned in 2012 for a rematch and won the race in the newly drawn 24th Congressional District, which includes all of Cayuga, Onondaga and Wayne counties, plus the western part of Oswego County.

Tompkins County legislator Nate Shinagawa was the winner Tuesday night for the Democratic nomination for the newly drawn 23rd Congressional District.

In response to this obvious gerrymandering, a 2010 referendum in California gave the power to redraw congressional district lines to the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, which had been created to draw California State Senate and Assembly districts by another referendum in 2008.

The Alabama State Legislature is responsible for drawing both congressional and state legislative district lines.

King's father, David King, was lead attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging the Senate violated the state's Fair District's Amendment in the drawing of state Senate and congressional districDistrict's Amendment in the drawing of state Senate and congressional districtdistrict lines.

Redistricting is the process by which new congressional and state legislative district boundaries are drawn.

In Missouri, congressional district boundaries are drawn by the state legislature.