How to Use reapportionment in a Sentence

reapportionment

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  • The state gained a district in a once-in-a-decade reapportionment after the 2020 U.S. Census.
    — Gillian Flaccus, ajc, 13 May 2022
  • The two lawmakers ran for the same seat after the Mountain State lost a House seat in reapportionment.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Because of reapportionment, the state is dropping to 26 seats.
    — Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That should be good news for Republicans the next time there is a reapportionment.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The state gained a seat in reapportionment, and the Democrats who control the State Legislature decided to grab it.
    — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This year Texas is a good case study to learn about reapportionment and redistricting.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • While in Congress, Issa lived in Vista and his district included a large swath of what is now the 50th before the last reapportionment.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The Democrats control Congress, but just barely, and the task of holding on to the House in the midterm elections became harder, last week, after the reapportionment of seats following the 2020 census.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 May 2021
  • The state lost a seat after the 2020 Census reapportionment of congressional seats.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Illinois lost one House seat in this year’s reapportionment, and Democrats blame snowbirds migrating south.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The largest state that doesn’t use a commission to draw its maps, Texas is expected to gain the most congressional seats after reapportionment.
    — USA Today, 17 Aug. 2020
  • New York is poised to lose as many as two congressional seats in the upcoming post-census reapportionment.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Biden is already down three electoral votes from reapportionment.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • But the district lines changed under the new map approved by the Legislature last year as part of the reapportionment required after every census.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • In addition to intrastate shifts, 13 states are set to gain or lose seats in the House of Representatives next year through the once-a-decade reapportionment required by the Constitution.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Alabama on Monday agreed to drop a lawsuit against the U.S. government that had sought to change the way census population counts were used for reapportionment.
    — Washington Post, 3 May 2021
  • The legislature worked … The plaintiffs in this case deposed the co-chairs of the Legislature’s joint reapportionment committee.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Neither the Census Bureau nor the Commerce Department, its overseer, responded to questions about the bureau’s role in the next reapportionment.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Two questions linger with me: is this system of House reapportionment fair and how will the loss of a congressional seat affect responsiveness by members of Congress?
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Each party currently holds nine House seats, but Pennsylvania will lose a seat next year because of reapportionment after the 2020 census.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The reapportionment committee passed the map 14-6, The Birmingham News reported.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Democrats also captured a new 42nd House District created by reapportionment in Wilton.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The once-in-a-decade reapportionment helps reset the nation’s political balance of power closer to the states that are large and growing, and helps funnel hundreds of billions of federal dollars across the country.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Congressional reapportionment is a zero-sum game, with states divvying up the 435 House seats based on population.
    — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The 2020 census undercounted the population of six states and overcounted in eight, but that won’t change the number of House seats allotted to each state during reapportionment, Michael Wines reports.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Oregon gained one seat in reapportionment, but emerges from the redistricting process with fewer competitive seats, just one, according to 538.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • But recall that progressives in autumn 2020 sued to kick the reapportionment into the Biden Administration.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • The state lost a congressional seat during the once-in-a-decade congressional reapportionment and both Republican incumbents were drawn into the same district.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 6 May 2022
  • The state lost a congressional seat during the once-in-a-decade congressional reapportionment, and both Republican incumbents were drawn into the same district.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 4 May 2022
  • Courts overturned congressional and state Senate maps drawn during the 2012 reapportionment process for failing to meet requirements of the Fair Districts amendments, forcing districts to be redrawn.
    — Jim Turner, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021

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