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Epic redistricting battles loom in states poised to gain, lose House seats
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Dec 30, 2019 09:39pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Ally Mutnick |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 31, 2019 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The U.S. population continues to shift south and west, according to new Census Bureau data that offers the clearest picture yet of how the 435 congressional seats will be distributed among the 50 states.
The latest numbers, released Monday, represent the final estimates from the government before next year's decennial Census, which will determine how many House seats and Electoral College votes each state will have for the next decade. That reapportionment, expected in December 2020, will kick off the year-and-a-half-long process of redrawing congressional-district maps — still in many states a brazen partisan battle that makes strange bedfellows, unplanned retirements and intense member-versus-member races, especially in states poised to lose seats.
“The first two years of any decade when districts are drawn produce the whitest knuckles in Congress,” said former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who led House Democrats’ campaign arm in the 2012 cycle. “People are trying to hold onto their seats at all costs.” |
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