Redistricting
CLEP American Government, Chapter 7 Redistricting Redistricting redraws electoral district boundaries, usually after reapportionment and population change. Districts must satisfy population equality and other federal requirements, while state law and institutions determine many procedural details. Congressional districts within a state must contain nearly equal populations, and maps must comply with federal voting-rights and equal-protection rules. […]
Apportionment and reapportionment
CLEP American Government, Chapter 7 Apportionment and reapportionment Apportionment distributes the 435 House seats among states according to population after each decennial census. Reapportionment changes state seat totals; redistricting then draws district boundaries within states. The census supplies the population basis, and a statutory formula reallocates a fixed House size among the states, each of […]
