Congressional representation is reapportioned every decade following the completion of the decennial census. Each year the Census Bureau produces the Population and Housing Unit Estimates Program; ...
Recent Redistricting News
National News Census The Biden Administration is moving forward with revising the way the Census Bureau asks about race and ethnicity . The proposed changes would combine race and ethnicity ...
Earl Blumenauer (D - Portland) introduced the REAL House Act, to expand the House of Representatives to 585 & create a mechanism to increase the house following each apportionment.
The Restoring Equal and Accountable Legislators in the House Act , REAL House Act , would remove the cap of 435 total seats in the US House of Representatives in order to reduce the average congre...
Redistricting terms related specifically to geography and drawing maps.
Block Assignment File The file format for many of the geographic products that the Census Bureau provides to states and other data users containing the small area census data necessary for leg...
Redistricting terms related specifically to the Decennial Census and U.S. Census Bureau.
Alaska Native Self-identification among people of Alaska Native descent. There were six main Alaska Native groups in the 2020 Census: Alaska Athabaskan Aleut Inupiat Tlingit-Haida Tsimsh...
Redistricting terms related specifically to the redistricting and electoral process.
Alternative Population Base A count other than total population from the federal decennial census that is used for redistricting. Apportionment After each Decennial Census, the populat...
Redistricting control as of January 18, 2023.
Congressional Redistricting Republican Control (20 States - 187 Seats): Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas**, Kentucky**, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska...
This month's top redistricting news.
SIGNIFICANT MAPPING DEVELOPMENTS SOUTH CAROLINA A federal district court struck down South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District as racially gerrymandered and ordered the state to enact...
In the United States, the responsibility for redistricting (the redrawing of election districts) is given to the state legislatures under Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution. After each dece...
In August 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau published a notice in the Federal Register seeking input and suggestions from the public on the operational design of the 2030 Census. The 2020 Census was p...
A constitutional amendment heralded as the gold-standard of redistricting reform leads to nothing but confusion and chaos
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