Sentences with phrase «redrawing new district lines»

Things got a little heated at a meeting of a legislative task force on redrawing new district lines, when the Senate Democrat's representative complained he'd been left in the dark about the creation of 63rd Senate district by Republicans.

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New York will lose two members of Congress next year, which means redrawing the lines to create 27 districts.

One of the biggest issues facing state lawmakers in 2012 is the redrawing of new district lines.

Queens Democratic leader Joe Crowley, who will pick the party's nominee for the Sept. 13 special election, is anxious to carve up Weiner's former territory when state lawmakers redraw district lines in 2012 to reduce New York's congressional delegation by two.

(AP) The lengthy process to redraw election district lines in New York that will guide politics for the next decade is expected to get longer.

With the demographic shift and the need to redraw district lines following the 2010 census, advocates believe they have the opportunity to create a new Latino district with a majority Dominican population, opening the door for a run by State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who has already made history as the first Dominican - American elected to a state legislature.

The proposed changes — including the creation of a new Senate district in the Albany area — will be part of the once - a-decade redrawing of legislative district lines, which both houses of the Legislature will unveil Wednesday.

A three - judge panel of a federal court ordered the North Carolina legislature to redraw their district lines and hold a new election next year.

Officials have been grappling with the area's rapid growth and escalating student population by aggressively building new facilities and redrawing jurisdiction lines of existing schools, keeping local school district boundaries in flux.