Congressional district

A congressional district is an electoral constituency that elects a single member of a congress. Countries with congressional districts include the United States, the Philippines, and Japan. A congressional district is based on population, which, in the United States, is taken using a census every ten years.

Japan

Philippines
Main article: Congressional districts of the Philippines

United States
Main article: List of United States congressional districts

There are 435 voting congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives,[1], and the population of the districts ranges from 530,000 (Rhode Island's two districts) to 1,070,000 in Montana's state-wide district, with an average population of 710,000 people in 2010.[2] In addition to 435 congressional districts, the five inhabited U.S. territories and the federal district of Washington, D.C. each send a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. The Census Bureau within the United States Department of Commerce conducts a decennial census whose figures are used to determine the number of Representatives that each state sends to Congress, and therefore the number of congressional districts within each state. The borders of those districts are set by the states, and within each state all districts are required to have approximately equal populations (see Wesberry v. Sanders). The 2012 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2010 Census data.[3]

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See also

References
  1. See Public Law 62-5 of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 capped the size of the House at 435.
  2. Congressional Apportionment. 2010 Census Briefs U.S. Census.
  3. "zipcodedownload.com". Retrieved 12 June 2013.
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