Redistricting, the redistribution of political borders in the United States
Redistricting following the 2010 census left Sherman and fellow Democratic U.S. Congressman Howard Berman in the same district.
Buerck was mired in controversy after being caught on tape in March 2002 in conversation with Doug Mink, when he said "because of the changes that we've made in redistricting to help Jim Raussen, we essentially took 13,000 African Americans out of the Raussen district and put 14,000 Republicans in." The tape was aired by news station WCPO-TV (Channel 9).
Under Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Joe Straus of San Antonio, he was chairman of the powerful State Affairs and Redistricting committees, respectively, in the 2009 and 2011 sessions.
After the 2000 census, the California State Legislature was obliged to complete redistricting for House of Representatives districts as well as California State Assembly and California State Senate districts.
Elliott Stonecipher, a political consultant and pollster from Shreveport, noted that redistricting may have strengthened the slim Republican majorities in the legislature.
In the 2004 general election Suslovic was defeated for re-election by Green Independent and fellow incumbent John Eder following a controversial redistricting process which involved a lawsuit by the Green Independent Party claiming the Democrats sought to gerrymander Eder out of office.
This was a deliberate result of the redistricting, and it followed the 1979 Revolution in Iran.
However, redistricting in the 1980s brought more Republican voters into Levitas' territory, and he succumbed in 1984 to Pat Swindall, who was later convicted of felony perjury charges.
O'Neill was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses, but he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952, when redistricting forced him into an election with fellow incumbent Congressman Joseph L. Carrigg.
Atkinson was to serve a total of three terms in the Tennessee House, serving Davidson and Williamson Counties as a "floterial representative", part of an arcane system which was then in use in Tennessee to avoid the constitutionally-mandated redistricting of the House according to population every ten years following the census (and which was eventually invalidated by the United States Supreme Court in its landmark Baker v. Carr ruling).
His district was renumbered as the 1st District as a result of the 2000s (decade) round of redistricting, and became even more Democratic with the addition of much of Iowa's share of the Quad Cities.
In an interesting dynamic to the race, the only other county in the district, added in the most recent redistricting, Haywood County, is Tennessee's only black-majority county.
In the Spring of 2011, Adams resigned from office to announce that he would run in 2012 for Congress in Arizona's 5th congressional district, after redistricting, the seat left open by Jeff Flake.
The prison was initially incorporated within the borders of the Kraków Ghetto when that district was created by the Nazis in March 1941; however, in the redistricting of June 1942 (following mass deportations of Ghetto population) the whole street was placed outside the confines of the Ghetto.
The Committee challenged Mississippi congressional districts in Brooks v. Winter, which helped Mike Espy to become the first black congressmen from Mississippi in 100 years; it also challenged municipal and county redistricting in Greenville, Jackson, Mississippi; Annapolis, Maryland; and Petersburg, Virginia.
In 2000, Bragman ran a disastrous and failed coup attempt against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, after which he and his supporters were stripped of their leadership positions and stipends and many removed via redistricting in 2001 and defeated in primaries by candidates backed by Silver.
Children from the area attend Green Valley or Kemptown Elementary School, Windsor Knolls Middle School, and Urbana High School, or Linganore High School, due to redistricting in the Fall of 2010.
Thomas C. Sawyer (OH-14), charter member, lost re-election following redistricting
The 10th congressional district (together with the 9th) was created starting with the 58th United States Congress in 1903, based on redistricting predicated on the results of the 1900 census.
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For the 113th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2010 Census), the district will contain portions of 3 counties and all or portions of 18 municipalities.
The 12th congressional district (together with the 11th district) was created starting with the 63rd United States Congress in 1913, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1910.
New Jersey's Thirteenth Congressional District is an obsolete congressional district and was created for the 73rd United States Congress in 1933, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1930.
The 14th congressional district (together with the 13th district) was created starting with the 73rd United States Congress in 1933, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1930.
The 15th congressional district was created starting with the 88th United States Congress in 1963, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1960.
For the 108th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2000 Census), this congressional district contains all or portions of three counties and 52 municipalities in New Jersey.
For the 108th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2000 Census), the district contains all or portions of 4 counties and 40 municipalities.
For the 108th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2000 Census), the district contains all or portions of four counties and 84 municipalities.
For the 113th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2010 Census), the congressional district contains all or portions of two counties and 32 municipalities of New Jersey.
For the 108th and successive Congresses (based on redistricting following the 2010 Census), the congressional district contains portions of 4 counties and 15 municipalities.
As a candidate for reelection to a second full term in the reconfigured District 94 in the October 22 primary election, Lorusso defeated legislative colleague John LaBruzzo, who was moved from District 81.
The addition of Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia, has led to redistricting, thus Stone's population dipped under the 1,000 mark.
After redistricting, he decided to run in the newly redrawn 50th house district, which had a southern portion of Butler County, a northern portion of Hardin County, and all of Grundy County.
He was elected in 1964 to the 89th United States Congress, but he did not run for reelection in 1966, after his seat was eliminated in redistricting.
He announced in 2011 that he would not run again in 2012 after the legislature passed a redistricting bill that put him in the same district with Rep. Mitch Gillespie.
In 1971, within the framework of a redistricting act in Hesse, Rhina was incorporated into the community of Haunetal.
Former Reagan Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis had pushed his son Andy for the seat and the 24th district was shifted northward into the Lehigh Valley in the 2001 redistricting.
In 1983, as a casualty of redistricting, Dykes bowed out of contention in a race which would have pitted him against long-term Senate President Sixty Rayburn of Bogalusa, Louisiana.
After redistricting, Adams ran in the newly redrawn Florida's 7th congressional district against fellow U.S. Congressman John Mica in the Republican primary.
Savick announced her intention to run for the Minnesota House of Representatives in August 2011 and challenge incumbent Rep. Tony Cornish, but redistricting following the 2012 Census put her in the district represented by Republican Rich Murray.
In 2012, due to redistricting, he ran for and won re-election in Florida's 21st district.
Redistribution of electoral boundaries forced Lupusella to run against fellow NDP Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Ross McClellan for the party's nomination in Dovercourt after McClellan's Bellwoods riding was eliminated.
Following redistricting as a result of the 2000 Census, this district, based in southeastern Georgia, maintained its strongly conservative bent, pulling from the conservative suburbs of Savannah, the social conservatives along the coastline, and stretching into the highly conservative Warner Robins, where an air force base is located.
Republicans hoped to take the seat in the 2006 elections after redistricting made the 7th slightly more Republican, though Democrats still held the advantage.
Vermont's state House of Representatives consists of 150 members elected from 108 single or two-member districts as provided for in the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census.
It is one the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census.
In 1912, with his Senate district had been redistricted out of existence (it had been split between new Fifth and Sixth districts, which were taken by Republican George Weigel and Democrat George Weissleder respectively), he was again the Socialist nominee for the Fourth Congressional District, coming in second again to William Joseph Cary.