Sentence examples for majority districts from inspiring English sources

The Democrats seem on the surface to have the better of the argument when they point to senators like Wayne Bryant of Camden County and Shirley Turner of Mercer, both blacks who won in white majority districts.

"We have put in for 13 total Latino majority districts based on population, making the areas more similar to community board lines," and other factors, said Raquel Batista, the Latino voting rights policy analyst at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.

The adopted plan favors Republicans the most out of all the plans considered by the legislature or submitted by the public, with 17 Republican majority districts and 10 Democratic majority districts out of 27 total congressional districts.

There are eight plans with 13 or 14 Democratic majority districts that are more fair and compact than the adopted plan.

With 27 congressional districts, one might expect a fair plan in a battleground state to have 13.5 Democratic majority districts, or 13 or 14 such districts since it would be difficult to draw a district with an exact tie.

Earlier in the day, an explosion killed at least eight people in the Sunni majority district of Abu Ghraib, though reports of the attack were contradictory and unclear.

"We don't have a majority district," said Christopher Kui, director of Asian Americans for Equality, a housing group with offices in Flushing and Chinatown.

Rather than being a "Latino majority" district the new 1st Ward will be "Latino influence".

The Muslim majority district is a patriarchal society, with many communities considering the education of their children, girls in particular, to be immaterial and against social norms.

Honda, a labor-friendly progressive first elected to the House in 2001, argued that his experience would continue to benefit the Asian-American majority district's working families while accusing Khanna of siding with corporate interests.

Some advocates would tend to agree with a need for more Hispanic-majority districts.