How to Use reapportionment in a Sentence

reapportionment

noun
  • Biden is already down three electoral votes from reapportionment.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • That should be good news for Republicans the next time there is a reapportionment.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • This year Texas is a good case study to learn about reapportionment and redistricting.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Because of reapportionment, the state is dropping to 26 seats.
    — Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022
  • New York is poised to lose as many as two congressional seats in the upcoming post-census reapportionment.
    — Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Illinois lost one House seat in this year’s reapportionment, and Democrats blame snowbirds migrating south.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The two lawmakers ran for the same seat after the Mountain State lost a House seat in reapportionment.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Florida and Texas have been gaining seats for a few decades, while New York has been losing seats over each reapportionment cycle.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The largest state that doesn’t use a commission to draw its maps, Texas is expected to gain the most congressional seats after reapportionment.
    — USA Today, 17 Aug. 2020
  • DeSantis argued last week that the population has grown enough to require a mid-decade census and reapportionment.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The state gained a seat in reapportionment, and the Democrats who control the State Legislature decided to grab it.
    — New York Times, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This count is then used to determine how the 435 House seats are distributed among the 50 states, a process called reapportionment.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But the district lines changed under the new map approved by the Legislature last year as part of the reapportionment required after every census.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • The state lost a seat after the 2020 Census reapportionment of congressional seats.
    — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Twenty of the uncalled House races are held by Democrats, 10 are held by Republicans, and three are brand new seats due to reapportionment.
    — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2022
  • While in Congress, Issa lived in Vista and his district included a large swath of what is now the 50th before the last reapportionment.
    — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • Congressional reapportionment is a zero-sum game, with states divvying up the 435 House seats based on population.
    — Fox News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Democrats also captured a new 42nd House District created by reapportionment in Wilton.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 9 Nov. 2022
  • At Tuesday’s meeting, many members said that the finalization of reapportionment is a triumph and a successful compromise.
    — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Oregon gained one seat in reapportionment, but emerges from the redistricting process with fewer competitive seats, just one, according to 538.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • The legislature worked … The plaintiffs in this case deposed the co-chairs of the Legislature’s joint reapportionment committee.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The state lost a congressional seat during the once-in-a-decade congressional reapportionment and both Republican incumbents were drawn into the same district.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 6 May 2022
  • The state lost a congressional seat during the once-in-a-decade congressional reapportionment, and both Republican incumbents were drawn into the same district.
    — Paul Steinhauser, Fox News, 4 May 2022
  • The once-in-a-decade reapportionment helps reset the nation’s political balance of power closer to the states that are large and growing, and helps funnel hundreds of billions of federal dollars across the country.
    — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Each party currently holds nine House seats, but Pennsylvania will lose a seat next year because of reapportionment after the 2020 census.
    — New York Times, 7 Mar. 2022
  • In West Virginia, two House Republican incumbents are competing because the state lost a seat in reapportionment.
    — John McCormick, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Congressional reapportionment is a zero sum game, with states divvying up the 435 House seats based on population advantages that can be strikingly small.
    — Time, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The independent commission would remain intact for the reapportionment after the 2030 census, and a new map would only be used if Texas or another state redraws its lines first.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 9 Aug. 2025
  • But recall that progressives in autumn 2020 sued to kick the reapportionment into the Biden Administration.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • Neither the Census Bureau nor the Commerce Department, its overseer, responded to questions about the bureau’s role in the next reapportionment.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020

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