How to Use congressional district in a Sentence

congressional district

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  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • All of these arguments are related to attempts to draw new state legislative maps, not new congressional district lines.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • For most of Tennessee's history, Nashville has been in one congressional district.
    — Kelly Mena, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Nebraska splits its electoral votes, giving Omaha’s congressional district a single electoral vote out of the state’s total of five.
    — Christina Elizabeth Dando, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Lewis, who suffered a fractured skill, went on to become a giant of the civil rights movement and represent Georgia’s 5th congressional district.
    — al, 6 Mar. 2022
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state's three congressional districts.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • His was the most pro-Trump congressional district in New York state in 2020.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the reason the outcome is up in the air is due to the state's losing a congressional district after the 2020 Census.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Jason strikes me as the type who, in ten or fifteen years, is running for the GOP seat in his congressional district.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • In the past, congressional district lines have been reviewed by federal judges and not the state Supreme Court.
    — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • The good news is the 16th congressional district’s long painful exercise counting the votes is over!
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • Maine is one of two states that have awarded electoral votes based on the congressional district.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The winner in each of the state's three congressional districts is awarded an electoral vote.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Caitlin Draper of Fayetteville filed as a Democrat in the 3rd congressional district last week.
    — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • For years, Democrats have avidly eyed a congressional district in central New York as ripe for the flipping.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The two congressmen were drawn into the same House seat after the state lost a congressional district after the 2020 Census.
    — CBS News, 11 May 2022
  • The congressional district includes the Charlottesville area and stretches south to Danville.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The seats are just two of seven congressional districts on the ballot for voters in Tarrant County.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If for some reason this turns into a red tsunami, keep an eye on the 10th congressional district in Virginia.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • That means the three of Nebraska's five electoral votes will go to the winner in each of the state's three congressional districts, and the two remaining votes will go to the winner of the state's popular vote.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Nebraska is one of two states, along with Maine, that splits its electoral votes based on congressional districts, awarding bonus votes to the overall winner of the state.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Nebraska gives three Electoral College votes to the statewide winner and one to the winner of each congressional district.
    — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Montana voters are heading to the polls Tuesday for the state's two House races, after the creation of a new congressional district, and state legislative races.
    — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • With that map, Republicans were able to flip congressional districts in 2022, a major blow to Democrats.
    — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, Maine and Nebraska award electoral votes to the winner of each congressional district — one per district — and give the other two votes to the statewide winner.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Last week, Chansley filed a statement of interest to run for a seat in Arizona’s 8th congressional district.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Speaking ahead of the president at an event in his congressional district last week, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden put it a bit more sharply.
    — Mike Memoli, NBC News, 31 July 2023
  • But Democrats representing swing congressional districts, or seeking to win one, could feel the pressure in those regions and across the country.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The big picture: McClellan is heavily favored to win the November election in the deep blue congressional district.
    — Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024

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