How to Use congressional district in a Sentence

congressional district

noun
  • That is a lot of red congressional districts.
    — Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats hold four of the state’s eight congressional districts.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Maine is one of two states that have awarded electoral votes based on the congressional district.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state's three congressional districts.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Nebraska is one of just two states to award a share of its electoral votes by congressional district.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
  • The winner in each of the state's three congressional districts is awarded an electoral vote.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Eight states have redrawn their congressional districts over the past year in search of a political edge.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 12 May 2026
  • The central question in the case is to what extent race can, or must, be used when congressional districts are redrawn.
    — Sam D. Hayes, The Conversation, 13 Oct. 2025
  • All of them were aimed at creating new congressional district maps that favor their party.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • The implications of this case go far beyond one congressional district in one state.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The next highest congressional district in the state is $8 billion.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The state is one of two, along with Maine, allocates its electoral votes based on congressional district.
    — Haley Ott, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The new congressional districts were implemented at lightning speed a few weeks ago.
    — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 22 May 2026
  • The good news is the 16th congressional district’s long painful exercise counting the votes is over!
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • Who – how your congressional districts are put together.
    — CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • At the center of the case is one of the state's two majority-Black congressional districts.
    — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 8 Jan. 2026
  • In order to reach the ballot, the campaign needs to qualify in six congressional districts.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Trump won Maine’s second congressional district and Biden won the first, plus the state’s two at-large electoral votes.
    — Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Nebraska is one of two states, along with Maine, that award an electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district.
    — Mitch Smith, New York Times, 14 May 2025
  • Though there are may ways to slice the data, one interesting window is to look at the number of loans by congressional district.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 6 July 2020
  • Our former swing state now has become a red state through and through thanks largely to the new congressional districts which are stretched to inane proportions.
    — Ann Marie Luft, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
  • In the past, congressional district lines have been reviewed by federal judges and not the state Supreme Court.
    — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • Those congressional district lines were used in the 2024 elections.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • The new map would favor Republicans in all nine of the state's congressional districts.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Placer County, under the new map, will be split up into three congressional districts.
    — Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • An effort to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is still up in the air.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • But pressure is growing to bring lawmakers back to revise the state’s congressional districts.
    — David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • One way suggested is to eliminate congressional districts and elect members at-large.
    — Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2025

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