Sentence examples for was reapportioned from inspiring English sources
verb
To apportion again; to redistribute or reallocate.
- The court intervened to reapportion the voting districts that had been unfairly laid out under the controlling party's regime.
But then came 1972, and I was reapportioned out of that seat.
Twice before, Mr. Scheuer was reapportioned out of districts in the Bronx and southern Queens.
Ms. Johnson, 70, was elected 10 times from the Sixth District, which was reapportioned in 2001 and no longer exists.
As a result, virtually every state legislature was reapportioned, ultimately causing the political power in most state legislatures to shift from rural to urban areas.
When the New York Legislature was reapportioned in 1953, on the basis of 1950 census figures, assemblymen representing 37.1% of the State's citizens constituted a majority in that body, and senators representing 40.9% of the citizens comprised a majority in the Senate.
When the State was reapportioned in 1953 on the basis of the 1950 census, the most populous Assembly district had 11.9 times as many citizens as the least populous one, and a similar ratio in the Senate was about 2.4-to-1.
Legislative districts in every state are now being reapportioned strictly on the basis of population.
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.
