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The 2022 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2020 United States census. [ 3 ] Each state is responsible for the redistricting of districts within their state, while several states have one "at-large" division.
Representatives were elected from all 435 U.S. congressional districts across each of the 50 states to serve in the 118th United States Congress, as well as 5 non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited insular areas.
The commission submitted the final maps to the California Secretary of State on December 27, 2021. [3] These new districts are considered "enacted" as of December 27, 2021. However, there was a 90-day period that ended on March 27, 2022, for any referendum petition to be filed to prevent the maps from becoming effective.
Legislators drew the maps for the state from late 2021 through early 2022. [2] The maps that were eventually passed were widely criticized as partisan gerrymanders. [3] [4] In particular, the redistricting split up the House district which had represented Democrat-heavy Nashville as long as Tennessee had been a state. [5]
A highly competitive congressional district that includes southern Wake County, which elected Democratic U.S. Rep. Wiley Nickel in 2022, would become a likely Republican pickup under new electoral ...
The state was redistricted in 2022, following the 2020 U.S. census. It lost one seat in Congress. [2] According to CNN, unnamed census officials stated that if 89 more people had been counted in New York's census results, and all other states' population figures had remained the same, New York would not have lost a congressional seat. [3]
The 2-1 ruling forbids the use of a map drawn up in January by the Legislature after a different federal judge blocked a map from 2022. An appeal of Tuesday’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court is ...
The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional map in 2022 to account for population shifts reflected in the 2020 Census. ... The justices allowed both states to use the ...