Redistricting in America

Redistricting, so the old saying goes, is when politicians get to choose their voters. Every ten years, following the national census, each state must redraw the constituency boundaries for both its members of Congress and its state legislators. In most states, the party in power controls both those processes...

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New U.S. Census numbers show Louisiana is the slowest-growing state in the South, which means the state will lose a seat in Congress.

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The nation’s population grew roughly 10 percent in the past decade, to more than 308 million, more than twice as fast as Iowa’s population, which grew 4.1 percent since 2000, U.S. Census officials announced today.

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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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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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New York will lose 2 of its 29 seats in the House, while New Jersey will lose 1 of its 13 seats, because of population shifts reported by the Census Bureau on Tuesday.

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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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Louisiana will lose a seat in Congress and therefore one of its nine electoral votes because of the results of the 2010 U.S. census, federal officials announced Tuesday in Washington.

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It's official: Louisiana will lose one congressional seat due to having one of the slowest population growth rates in the nation over the last decade, according to first numbers released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Iowa and two other states Tuesday were added to those that will have four U.S. House members after the 2012 elections.

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