Sentence examples for being reapportioned from inspiring English sources

Legislative districts in every state are now being reapportioned strictly on the basis of population.

Another variant, the contingent vote system used in elections for president in Sri Lanka, allows voters to rank their top three candidates; if no candidate wins a majority, only the top two candidates go to a second round of counting, with the preference votes of eliminated candidates being reapportioned.

But Mr. Houghton also knew that if he retired, his absence would make his 31st Congressional District, a rural stretch across upstate New York's Southern Tier, significantly more vulnerable than it already was to being reapportioned out of existence in the next two years.

The Iowa legislature had, in fact, not been reapportioned since 1886.

Some shareholders, however, contend that the earnings pie should be reapportioned.

House seat apportionments are based on population and are reapportioned every decade after the census.

Asterisk denotes incumbent where appropriate (the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly have been reapportioned); dagger denotes incomplete result.

Twice before, Mr. Scheuer was reapportioned out of districts in the Bronx and southern Queens.

But then came 1972, and I was reapportioned out of that seat.

This means that new governors are chosen less frequently than the Legislature is reapportioned.

Fewer people also can mean less federal aid and political representation when Congressional and legislative districts are reapportioned.