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Redistricting Cases: the 2000s

The court enjoined use of the districtsb> for the 2002 election, but stayed its order unless and until the stay was removed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals or North Carolina Supreme Court, and also until the order was precleared under § 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
District in Baltimore City, on the ground that the redrawing of the boundaries of District 44 by the Maryland Court of Appeals rendered the case moot.
The district court held that HB 309 was in conflict with the Constitution and void, that the Secretary of State’s refusal to file the plan was in violation of the Constitution, and that the Secretary of State had no standing to seek a declaratory judgment on the constitutionality of the plan.

http://www.senate.leg.state.mn.us/departments/scr/redist/redsum2000/redsum2000.htm



FIPS 9-1 - Congressional Districtsb> of the United States

Congressional districtsb> are legislatively defined subdivisions of a State for the purpose of electing representatives or delegates to the House of Representatives of the United States Congress.
The congressional districtsb> in different States have the same code; e.g., the First Congressional District of Alabama and of Arizona are both coded "01".
This standard provides the structure of numeric codes for representing congressional districtsb> and similar areas defined for the various Congresses of the United States.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip9-1.htm



Congressional Districtsb> of the United States

The Congressional Districtsb> of the United States - 109th Congress map layer portrays the congressional district boundaries for the 109th Congress (2005-2006).
Each of these representatives is elected by the voters of a congressional district, defined as an area established by law for the election of representatives to the U.S. Congress.
Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districtsb> in the State as practicable, based on the decennial census counts.

http://nationalatlas.com/mld/cgd109p.html



Shaw v. Hunt, 116 S.Ct. 1894, 135 L.Ed.2d 207 (1996)

The remaining appellants do not reside in District 1, however, and they have not provided specific evidence that they personally were assigned to their voting districtsb> on the basis of race.
District 12 would not address the professed interest of relieving the vote dilution, much less be narrowly tailored to accomplish the goal.
To accept that the district may be placed anywhere implies that the claim, and hence the coordinate right to an undiluted vote (to cast a ballot equal among voters), belongs to the minority as a group and not to its individual members.

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-923.ZO.html



Districtsb> for 104th Congress

The 103rd Congress was the first Congress that reflected the reapportionment and delineation of congressional districtsb> based on the 1990 census.
After the Federal apportionment of congressional seats among the States based on the decennial census population counts, State officials are responsible for establishing CDs for the purpose of electing representatives; occasionally, the courts are called upon to delineate the CDs.
CD is the congressional district: 01 to 52...individual district codes 00.........at-large seat 98.........nonvoting delegate 99.........no representation in Congress FULLCODE is a combination of state and congressional district codes.

http://water.usgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?cd104



Summary Description of California's 1990s Congressional Districtsb>

In the 1980s redistricting, the northern half of this district (Inyo County) was lumped together with most of Kern and San Luis Obispo counties and a sliver of Republican Los Angeles County to form a wildly gerrymandered district (the 20th) meant to concentrate Republicans.
The district covers the mostly white (82 percent) neighborhoods on the eastern side of the East Bay Hills of Contra Costa and Alameda counties, as well as the unincorporated Castro Valley area to the west.
In the 1980s redistricting, this district was part of a desperate gerrymander meant to preserve at least one Democratic congressional seat from Orange County.

http://swdb.berkeley.edu/info/caljournallinks/congress.html



WVSOS - Elections - Political Districtsb> in West Virginia

The districtsb> currently range in geographical size from one county to parts of nine counties in order to achieve the right population distribution to assure equal representation.
County executive committee members for the political parties are elected from these districtsb>, and this alignment also affects the election of county commission members and board of education members.
The minimum number of magisterial districtsb> per county is three, and most of West Virginia's 55 counties have three magisterial districtsb>.

http://www.wvsos.com/elections/offices/districts.htm



Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions, Secretary of State, Maine (USA)

On July 2, 2003, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a Final Order establishing the apportionment of the U.S. Congressional Districtsb> and the Maine State Senate Districtsb>.
This link connects to Chapter 289 of the Public Laws of 2003, which was enacted by the 121st Legislature and signed by the Governor on May 23, 2003, and became effective on September 13, 2003.
This link connects to Chapter 291 of the Public Laws of 2003, which was enacted by the 121st Legislature and signed by the Governor on May 23, 2003, and became effective on September 13, 2003.

http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/apport/apport.htm



FedStats: MapStats

To view a profile of your State, county, city, congressional district, or Federal judicial district, select the name of the State from the menu or use the map of the United States below.

http://www.fedstats.gov/qf



Georgia's proposed congressional districtsb>... : PrisonersoftheCensus

State legislators in Georgia are currently redrawing the districtsb> of Georgia's Congressional delegation, but by relying on Census data that counts prisoners as residents of the prison location, they are unwittingly diluting the votes of Georgia residents who do not live near prisons.
In order to comply with the Supreme Court's One Person One Vote rule and to ensure that each resident has the same access to government, congressional districtsb> much each contain the same number of residents Unlike state legislative districtsb>, Congressional districtsb> must be exactly equal in size.
If Georgia's legislators really want to draw districtsb> that truly weigh all parts of the state equally, they need better data.

http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/news/fact-7-3-2005.shtml



Title 21-A - §1205. Congressional districtsb>

The State is divided into 2 districtsb> for the election of Representatives to the United States Congress as follows.
The Second District consists of the counties of Androscoggin, Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo and Washington and the municipalities of Albion, China, Monmouth, Unity Township and Wayne in Kennebec County.
The First District consists of the counties of Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc and York and the municipalities of Augusta, Belgrade, Benton, Chelsea, Clinton, Farmingdale, Fayette, Gardiner, Hallowell, Litchfield, Manchester, Mount Vernon, Oakland, Pittston, Randolph, Readfield, Rome, Sidney, Vassalboro, Vienna, Waterville, West Gardiner, Windsor, Winslow and Winthrop in Kennebec County.

http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes/21-A/title21-Asec1205.html



2004 Local Congressional Districtsb>

This law significantly alters the geographic boundaries of districtsb> for Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas.
This means that even though the old city hall and new city hall buildings are within spitting distance of one another, they're in different congressional districtsb>.
This district also includes parts of Burleson and Limestone counties as well as all of Brazos, Grimes, Madison, Grimes, McLennan, Hill, Bosque, Somervell, Hood, and Johnson counties.

http://www.rtis.com/reg/Hearne/2004CongressionalDistricts.htm



District Maps

Download and print maps for the congressional, councilmanic, and state legislative districtsb> for Baltimore County.

http://www.baltimorecountyonline.info/Agencies/elections/district_maps.html



23-15-1037. Division of state into five congressional districtsb>.

(1) The State of Mississippi is hereby divided into five (5) congressional districtsb> as follows:
(2) The boundaries of the congressional districtsb> described in subsection (1) of this section shall be the boundaries of the counties and precincts listed in subsection (1) as such boundaries existed on October 1, 1990.
The Fourth Congressional District shall be composed of the following counties and portions of counties: Adams, Amite, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Marion, Pike, Simpson, Walthall, Wilkinson; that portion of Hinds County not included in the Second Congressional District; and that portion of Jones county not included in the Third Congressional District.

http://www.mscode.com/free/statutes/23/015/1037.htm



IllinoisAtlas.com - Illinois Political Maps

Description: Illinois state house and senate districtsb> with county boundaries.
Description: Chicago area state house and senate district with county boundaries.

http://www.illinoisatlas.com/illinois/political/political.htm



Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment

The number of Senate Districtsb> (35) and House Districtsb> (105) constituting the Alabama Legislature is established by Article IV, Section 50, Constitution of Alabama.
Redistricting: The process by which the boundaries of state legislative districtsb> and United States House districtsb> are drawn to reflect population shifts.
Following the 2000 Census, and receipt of the final data (by April 1, 2001), the congressional, legislative and state school board redistricting plans were drafted and subsequently taken up by the Legislature.

http://www.legislature.state.al.us/reapportionment/reap.html



HoustonChronicle.com - House to stay shut, absentees vow

Bell would be forced out of office as his district moved to South Texas, and Jackson Lee would lose much of her district's historical territory.
When the Legislature failed to redraw congressional boundaries, a three-judge federal court stepped in and drew the current districtsb>.
Raymond said there is no reason to draw new congressional maps now because the court-ordered map has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as acceptable under the federal Voting Rights Act.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory/1908893



THE CHRONICLE RECOMMENDS: PROP. 77 / A fairer way to draw lines

The notion of allowing elected officials to artfully design their district boundaries was unfair back in 1812, when Gov. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts signed off on a redistricting plan that was so skewed to keep his party in power that one of the districtsb> resembled the shape of a salamander.
Their marching orders would be to keep the districtsb> as compact as practicable and to follow city and county boundaries as much as possible -- as opposed to the find-your-voters games that produced the bizarre lines of 2001.
Rest assured, your elected "representatives" in Sacramento are not about to change a system that allows them to select their pool of voters, especially with one party in firm control of the state Senate and Assembly.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/12/EDGQIF6HBC1.DTL



Redistricting

Redistricting Local Governments - Statutes and cases on redistricting counties, cities, and school districtsb> in Minnesota
Redistricting Cases: the 2000s - A list of cases on congressional and legislative redistricting following the 2000 census.
Redistricting Cases: the 1990s - A list of cases on congressional and legislative redistricting following the 1990 census.

http://www.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/gis/html/redis-list.html



Chapter 188 — Congressional and Legislative Districtsb>; Reapportionment

The Legislative Assembly or the Secretary of State, whichever is applicable, shall consider the following criteria when apportioning the state into congressional and legislative districtsb>:
The State of Oregon is portioned into five congressional districtsb> composed, respectively, of the following counties or parts thereof:
One Representative to the Congress of the United States shall be elected in each congressional district at the general election every two years.

http://landru.leg.state.or.us/ors/188.html



Oklahoma Government State Capital Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Oklahoma State Motto

From 1803 to 1819, Oklahoma was part of several territorial districtsb> as the United States reorganized its land holdings due to boundary disputes and treaties.
Alaska is divided into boroughs and census districtsb> and Louisiana is divided into parishes where governing responsibilities are similar to counties.
Traditionally, counties performed tasks mandated by the state, such as property assessment, property and vital statistic record keeping, maintenance of rural roads, administration of local election and judicial functions, and support of the poor.

http://www.netstate.com/states/government/ok_government.htm



WVSOS - Elections - West Virginia Congressional Districtsb>

The counties from which representatives will be elected to West Virginia's three congressional districtsb> from 2002-2010 are listed below.
WVSOS - Elections - West Virginia Congressional Districtsb>
In 2001, the Legislature adopted the redistricting plan that moved Gilmer County from the Second to the First District, and Nicholas County from the Second to the Third District.

http://www.wvsos.com/elections/offices/congressional.htm



Kansas congressional district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Following the 2000 Census, the State of Kansas retained its four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the redistricting of Kansas's congressional districtsb> by the state legislature was completed in 2002.
It was suggested that the core of the existing districtsb> should be preserved, and, because of their importance as political or socioeconomic units, whole counties should be in the same district to the extent possible.
The number of congressional seats decreased from five to four with the apportionment following the 1990 census and beginning at the start of the 103rd Congress (in 1993).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_congressional_district



1992 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTSb>

However, for the 15 percent of counties which include multiple congressional districtsb>, the address of the farm operation was used to assign the farm to the appropriate district.
In the majority of cases where counties fall entirely within a congressional district, farms were assigned to the district based on the census county.
This report marks the first time that statistics from the census of agriculture have been published by congressional district.

http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census92/ag1300.htm



HoustonChronicle.com - Texas lawmakers finalize congressional map

The conference committee agreement still must be approved by the majority of the Texas House and Senate.
Another bill to be considered Friday would push back the Texas primary election to March 9, to allow time for new congressional districtsb> to be incorporated on the ballot.
Under the new map, the mostly minority district of U.S. Rep. Martin Frost, in the Arlington area, would probably be decimated.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2147115



District

Only voters within each district are allowed to vote in the election for the member of the House from that district.
The District of Columbia is the only part of the United States, excluding territories, that is not a located within any of the fifty states.
A district ("amphoe") is a subdivision of a Province ("changwat") in Thailand.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/d/di/district.html (529 words)



USATODAY.com - In most congressional districtsb>, it's no contest

"I think that it would be much healthier for the electoral process if there were competitive districtsb>," says Chabot, a former teacher and lawyer who chairs the House Constitution Subcommittee.
Democrats had held it for nearly two decades before he won the seat in the "Republican Revolution" of 1994.
It's a district where an incumbent is retiring or one that includes even numbers of Democrats or Republicans.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/ushouse/2004-10-10-no-contest_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA (529 words)



India

India's bicameral parliament consists of the upper house called 'The Council of States' (Rajya Sabha) and the lower House called 'The House of the People' (Lok Sabha), both of which were established by the Constitution of India.
Main articles: States and Territories of India, Population by State India is subdivided into 28 states, 6 Union Territories and the National Capital Territory of Delhi: The second-level subdivision is the district.
India became a formal crown colony of the United Kingdom in 1876, and the successive British monarchs assumed the title of "Emperor of India." The British rulers practised racial discrimination and exploited the country economically.

http://www.nebulasearch.com/encyclopedia/article/India.html (3213 words)



Wisconsin Legislative Redistricting Information

The legislature is required to redraw legislative and congressional districtsb> every ten years based upon the results of the decennial federal census.
Despite changes in redistricting technology and uncertainty about judicial standards, the purpose of redistricting and the end result remain unchanged -- that is, the establishment of election districtsb> which provide representational equality for all potential voters.
In Wisconsin, responsibility for redrawing legislative and congressional district lines rests with the legislature.

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/ltsb/redistricting (3213 words)



Printable Maps - Congressional Districtsb>

Congressional Districtsb> of the United States - 109th Congress
They include Congressional Districtsb> boundaries overlaid on top of state and county boundaries.
There is also a map of the United States showing all the districtsb> in the nation.

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/printable/congress.html (3213 words)

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