Word: redrawn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon voluntarily reapportioned both houses-but in 1961. Alaska, Hawaii and South Carolina have not reapportioned their lower houses, nor Massachusetts its senate. In all the others, the lines have been redrawn...
...national level, G.O.P. candidates won only 40% of the seats in the House of Representatives during the 1962 mid-term election, even though they collected 48% of the votes. Last year, after nearly two-thirds of the states had redrawn their congressional districts to make them more nearly equal in population, Republicans increased their share of House seats to 43% while increasing their share of the vote only to 48.3%. Roughly a dozen states are still at work reapportioning their congressional districts; only last week, a federal court threw out a 1966 redistricting plan adopted by New York and ordered...
Logue condemned as "irresponsible and misleading" a Massachusetts Board of Education proposal that the Boston School Committee alleviate racial imbalance by redrawing school district lines. He suggested that a shifting population pattern would require the district lines to be redrawn quite frequently...
First to Go. Judge Smith had a problem all his own in his contest with George C. Rawlings Jr. ,44, a Fredericksburg attorney and state legislator. The Eighth District was redrawn last year to include part of suburban Fairfax County in the north and some predominantly Negro areas in the south. Much of the territory between stayed loyal to Smith, but gave him smaller margins than he had expected. Suburban Fairfax went for Rawlings 2 to 1. With heavy Negro votes, Charles City County gave Rawlings a 7 to 2 margin, and New Kent County, 2 to 1. The result...
Eisenstadt's assistant, William G. Tobin, said that he found the tentative redistricting plan "full of mistakes" after checking with junior high and elementary school principle in the districts where lines will be redrawn...