Sentence examples for district to elect from inspiring English sources

The Democrats defended their plan by assuring to the court that minority voters no longer needed to predominate in a district to elect a minority candidate.

And Mr. Ramirez and other Democrats have long seen an opportunity, in tinkering with the boundaries of his overwhelmingly minority district, to elect a black or Latino representative.

District magnitude (i.e., the number of members per district) varies from country to country; for example, the Netherlands uses a single national district to elect the 150 members of its Tweede Kamer (Second Chamber), and Chile elects members of its legislature by using two-seat constituencies.

Had the elections been reorganized to allow districts to elect their own supervisors, he would have won.

A referendum that would create six districts to elect the Town Council won narrowly last night in the sprawling Long Island Town of Brookhaven, according to unofficial results.

He called the prosecution a political vendetta by Democrats in the local district attorney's office, and revenge for his role in orchestrating the 2003 redrawing of Congressional districts to elect more Republicans.

22nd District (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst in Brooklyn): Republicans in the State Senate crafted this district specifically to elect City Councilman Martin Golden, whose job expires next year because of term limits.

"If I can't return, my district deserves to elect a U.S. representative who can give 100 percent to the job now".

State Senator Wendy Davis, Democrat of Fort Worth, whose defeat would have brought Republicans one vote shy of an unbreakable two-thirds majority in that chamber, hung on in a district drawn to elect a Republican.

In addition, the Supreme Court recently upheld a district created to elect a black candidate in North Carolina in a 5-to-4 decision that said what mattered was the partisan political purpose behind redistricting.

This year, for instance, only two of the 36 Congressional districts will have competitive contests, and one of those — District 14 — will be competitive only if the Democrat, former United States Representative Nick Lampson of Beaumont, can overcome the normal pattern in a district drawn to elect a Republican.