How to Use congressional district in a Sentence

congressional district

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  • Gomez, whose congressional district overlaps with the city council districts of De León and Cedillo, invoked his newborn son.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Click the buttons below to explore data by gender, party affiliation, age, race, and congressional district.
    — Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Part of the reason the outcome is up in the air is due to the state's losing a congressional district after the 2020 Census.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The good news is the 16th congressional district’s long painful exercise counting the votes is over!
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • Walz is an avuncular former high-school teacher and veteran who represented a red congressional district as a relative moderate.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Caitlin Draper of Fayetteville filed as a Democrat in the 3rd congressional district last week.
    — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • For years, Democrats have avidly eyed a congressional district in central New York as ripe for the flipping.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The congressional district includes the Charlottesville area and stretches south to Danville.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The seats are just two of seven congressional districts on the ballot for voters in Tarrant County.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If for some reason this turns into a red tsunami, keep an eye on the 10th congressional district in Virginia.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Montana voters are heading to the polls Tuesday for the state's two House races, after the creation of a new congressional district, and state legislative races.
    — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • With that map, Republicans were able to flip congressional districts in 2022, a major blow to Democrats.
    — Brian Bushard, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, Maine and Nebraska award electoral votes to the winner of each congressional district — one per district — and give the other two votes to the statewide winner.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Last week, Chansley filed a statement of interest to run for a seat in Arizona’s 8th congressional district.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Speaking ahead of the president at an event in his congressional district last week, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden put it a bit more sharply.
    — Mike Memoli, NBC News, 31 July 2023
  • But Democrats representing swing congressional districts, or seeking to win one, could feel the pressure in those regions and across the country.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
  • So why does this matter beyond one congressional district in New York?
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Each of the state’s 28 congressional districts gets three delegates.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • The judge ordered the state legislature to draw new congressional district boundaries by Dec. 8.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In Mesa, twenty-six per cent of the housing stock is mobile homes, which translates into the largest raw number and the second highest proportion in any congressional district in the U.S.
    — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The latest House rating changes switched California’s 47th congressional district from one that leans Democrat to a toss up.
    — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The partisan voter index, or PVI, compares the vote in each congressional district with that of the nation, based on the past two presidential elections.
    — Stephanie Stamm, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Here's more on the suspect television ads going around a key congressional district.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2024
  • Every decade, the boundaries of congressional districts are adjusted based on the U.S. Census.
    — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
  • Haley lives on Kiawah Island, in the first congressional district, just outside of Charleston.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The makeup of those boards and commissions must change because Oregon was granted a sixth congressional district after the 2020 census.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That would have a dramatic impact on just how many constituents are grouped into each congressional district.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The poll found that 50% of likely voters in Colorado’s third congressional district would vote for opponent Adam Frisch, versus 48% for Boebert.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Winning those three states plus one congressional district in Nebraska would put Biden at exactly 270 electoral votes, the minimum needed to be elected.
    — Dan Balz, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • Six Democrats are vying for the chance to challenge a longtime Republican incumbent and flip what might be Arizona's most competitive congressional district from red to blue.
    — Jeremy Duda, Axios, 25 July 2024

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