Redistricting in America

In a sort of legislative miracle, Texas lawmakers actually finished their redistricting work this year, drawing new political maps for Congress, the Texas House and Senate, and for the State Board of Education. But the fight is just starting, and could last beyond next year’s elections.

Nobody, including a fair number of lawmakers, thought the legislative part would be that easy. It helped to have a Republican supermajority. Still, the five-member state board that draws maps when lawmakers fail — the lieutenant governor, the House speaker, the attorney general, the comptroller and the land commissioner — was all ready to go. But the Legislature left them nothing to do.

Minnesota will keep all eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, squeaking by with an increase in population to 5,303,925 in the 2010 Census, according to census figures released December 21. Both Iowa...

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Washington will soon gain a 10th seat in the U.S. Congress, as revealed by recently released Census figures, but just who will be represented is still up in the air. A five-member, bipartisan redistricting...

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Washington will gain a 10th U.S. House seat in 2012 thanks to strong population growth over the past decade, making it one of the few Democratic-leaning states to see its political clout...

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Maryland will keep its eight congressional seats based on figures from the 2010 Census. Maryland is one of 32 states that won't gain on lose any seats in Congress.

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Now that Utah is officially getting a fourth seat in the U.S. House, there's no stopping the speculation surrounding the race. The boundaries of the new district reapportioned to the state Tuesday as a result of...

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With Democrats in South Carolina already at perhaps their lowest point as a political party in state history, the looming prospect of the once-a-decade redrawing of the state’s electoral map could squeeze them even further...

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Rep.-elect Tim Scott hasn't even taken office, yet the North Charleston Republican knows that he's already a marked man. It's not his political foes who are targeting him.

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Rhode Island’s population grew just 0.4 percent from 2000 to 2010, making it the slowest growing of all the states except Michigan, the only state to lose population during the decade, according to census numbers...

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Georgia will get a 14th seat in the U.S. House and an extra vote in the Electoral College in 2012 based on U.S. Census Bureau figures released Tuesday. The census numbers show that the state's population...

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Despite increasing its population by 18.5 percent over the last decade, North Carolina came up 15,000 people short of adding a 14th congressional seat, according to Census Bureau state population figures released Tuesday.

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New Jersey will lose one of its 13 congressional seats, new Census data for 2010 released today shows and it's up to a bi-partisan congressional commission to decide whose district will be on the chopping block.

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New Jersey is set to lose one of its 13 seats in the House of Representatives, according to preliminary results released by the U.S. Census Bureau, setting off a political brawl over how the state’s districts will be redrawn.

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U.S. Representative-elect Steve Womack, R-Rogers, wants to see Sebastian County remain in the 3rd Congressional District when the Arkansas General Assembly redraws boundaries for congressional districts this year.

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Despite a dramatic slowdown in Nevada’s population growth, and even some net out-migration for the first time in recent memory, the U.S. Census Bureau report today shows the state will gain a fourth congressional seat...

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The political jockeying over how to draw new Congressional districts began in earnest this week after new census data showed almost a dozen seats shifting to the South and West...

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Ohio will lose two of its 18 congressional seats to rapidly expanding sun belt states in two years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced on Tuesday. The news set off a political scramble in Columbus...

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The question now is who goes?

The U.S. Census for 2010 shows that New Jersey is the 11th most populated state in the nation with 8.8 million people but it still fell two states behind...

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Slow population growth will reduce national political influence in both Missouri and Illinois starting in 2012, as Census Bureau figures released Tuesday cut each state’s congressional delegations by one.

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It’s “Survivor: Massachusetts,” where an unlucky member of the Democratic congressional tribe faces being voted off the island after the Census Bureau announced yesterday the Bay State is losing a coveted seat on Capitol Hill.

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