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Virginia's 5th congressional district from January 3, 2023. Virginia's fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. The 5th district includes the majority of Southside Virginia, though it stretches as far as the Richmond suburbs. Within the district are the cities of Charlottesville ...
Virginia's congressional districts did not meet the "competitive" mark of a 5% margin of victory, but they averaged a margin of 35%, comparable to the national district statistical average of all 435 districts. Districts 10 and 11 in northern Virginia and the 2nd in the Hampton Roads ranged between 16 and 18%. Virginia, like the nation as a ...
District with the greatest area: Alaska at-large, same as in 2010. District with the greatest area that comprises less than an entire state: Montana's 2nd. In 2010: New Mexico's 2nd. District with the smallest area: New York's 12th. In 2010: New York's 13th.
Milligan, 599 U.S. 1 (2023), the Supreme Court of the United States held that the state's current map violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. § 10301) and needs to be redrawn with an additional black-majority district. The Alabama Legislature approved another map which also violated the law, but a federal court selected ...
New boundaries could mean a second Black Democratic candidate will represent the state in Congress
A panel of federal judges approved a new congressional map for Alabama on Thursday after versions drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature were struck down for diluting the power ...
A federal court Tuesday vowed to draw a new Alabama congressional map including a second Black-majority district after the Republican-dominated state refused to obey its previous order to rectify ...
English: The congressional district, highlighted in red, overlayed with other congressional districts and county boundaries, as well as municipality-equivalent places, major roads, water areas, urban areas, and publicly-owned land (eg. parks and forests) in Alabama, with neighbouring states coloured in gray.