Sentences with phrase «which legislative district lines»

Another open question is which legislative district lines Cuomo will ultimately accept.

Not exact matches

Cantor predicted a slew of contested races at the local, state and federal levels in the coming year (recall that all the House and state legislative seats will be up for grabs with new district lines, which further boosts the possibility of competitive contests).

This process establishes congressional and legislative district lines, which can influence the competitiveness of those elections in favor of one political party or another until the following census in 2030.

The product is the «hyper - partisan,» in his words, lines which LATFOR, the state's legislative redistricting arm, came out with, that gerrymander the districts in such a way as to preserve the Republican majority in the Senate and the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

This process establishes congressional and legislative district lines in many states, which can influence the competitiveness of those elections in favor of one political party or another until the following census in 2030.

Both legislative leaders said yesterday that her proposals are a template from which to re-start negotiations, although there is a school of thought — one particularly of concern to black and Latino leaders in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan — that Mann's lines will end up standing, since they allow the majorities in both the Senate and Assembly to punt on hard decisions about whose district to eliminate and how.

COURTESY MAP This map shows the proposed county redistricting lines, which includes moving Shelter Island into the 2nd legislative district.

But that map — which would create the additional minority district by pushing Albany's existing 6th Legislative District closer to the city's southern end — was drafted with the assumption that black and Hispanic residents should be combined when redrawing thdistrict by pushing Albany's existing 6th Legislative District closer to the city's southern end — was drafted with the assumption that black and Hispanic residents should be combined when redrawing thDistrict closer to the city's southern end — was drafted with the assumption that black and Hispanic residents should be combined when redrawing the lines.

She said because the county has independent redistricting, which requires that new legislative district lines be drawn after every census, term limits are unnecessary.

The bill — which passed the House 87 - 51 and the Senate 30 - 16 — sought to establish an independent redistricting panel that would be responsible for drawing the boundary lines for congressional and state legislative districts in Maryland.

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.