Few arcane topics have broken through the public consciousness in recent years as well as redistricting, the once-a-decade process of redrawing political maps based on changes in population, race ...

Now that the numbers are out, the jockeying begins. The release of the 2000 census data officially inaugurates redistricting season--a mad scramble by political parties and pressure groups to ...

Consider the racial groups surveyed by contemporary political analysts. 1. Black turnout was only slightly down from 2012 to 2014 (from 13 percent to 12 percent of the electorate), and blacks ...

New maps are drawn to keep the population in each congressional district roughly even. 3. ... it refers to the intentional distortion of a map of political districts to give one party an advantage. 9.

Dirt doesn’t vote. This week, as President Donald Trump went on the offensive to bolster his case against impeachment, he tweeted a county-by-county map of the 2016 presidential race that showed ...

Sen. Jose Rodriguez, left, and Sen. Steve Ogden are shown in front of a map showing U.S. Congressional districts in Texas during debate on a redistricting bill in the Senate on Monday, June 6 ...

A Senate committee has already approved (on a straight party-line vote) a new map that has 12 districts with white majorities and another four where the majority of the voting age population ...

In terms of the percentage of population ruled by a political party, the BJP once again has seen no change while the Congress figures has dropped by 2 percentage points to 7%. With this win, the ...

Every 10 years Pennsylvania undergoes the redistricting process, during which legislative boundaries are redrawn to reflect our state’s ever-changing population. While this is supposed to be an ...

Not every change in the state’s political maps starts with party affiliation. Geography and population are giving Republican mapmakers new headaches.

Michigan’s redistricting commission wants to see your ideal political maps. Here’s how to make them. Published: ; May. 19, 2021, 7:00 a.m.