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| x Hawaiis 2nd congressional district |
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Hawaii | 2 | Mazie Hirono |
The Second Congressional District of Hawaii is a Congressional district in the State of Hawaii, officially established in 1977, created when Hawaii started using two representative districts instead of electing two at-large Representatives. From...
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| x Missouri's 6th congressional district |
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Missouri | 6 | Sam Graves |
Missouri's 6th congressional district takes in a large swath of land in rural northwest Missouri. Its largest voting population is centered in the Kansas City metropolitan area and the town of St. Joseph. The district includes all of Kansas City...
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| x Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district |
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Pennsylvania | 6 | Jim Gerlach |
Pennsylvania's 6th congressional district was substantially redrawn in 2002. Its strange shape brought charges of gerrymandering by Democrats who argued it "looms like a dragon descending on Philadelphia from the west, splitting up towns and...
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| x Kentucky's 5th congressional district |
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Kentucky | 5 | Hal Rogers |
United States House of Representatives, Kentucky District 5 is a district of the United States Congress in eastern Kentucky. The district is represented in the 111th United States Congress by Hal Rogers (R).
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| x Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district |
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Oklahoma | 2 | Dan Boren |
Oklahoma's Second Congressional District covers approximately the eastern one-fourth of the state. The district borders Kansas (to the north), Missouri and Arkansas (to the east), and Texas (along the Red River, to the south). Altogether, the...
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| x Indiana's 8th congressional district |
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Indiana | 8 | Brad Ellsworth |
United States House of Representatives, Indiana District 8 or The Bloody Eighth as it is it locally referred, is a district of the United States Congress in southwestern and west central Indiana. Based in Evansville, it was widened when Indiana lost...
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| x California’s 13th congressional district |
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California | 13 | Pete Stark |
California's 13th congressional district is a California congressional district that includes portions of Alameda and Santa Clara counties. The current Representative for this district is Democrat Fortney "Pete" Stark.
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| x California’s 40th congressional district |
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California | 40 | Ed Royce |
California's 40th congressional district covers parts of northern Orange County and is currently represented by Republican Ed Royce.
The seat was originally one of five reapportioned to California after the 1970 census, but its borders have shifted...
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| x North Carolina's 12th congressional district |
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North Carolina | 12 | Mel Watt |
North Carolina's 12th congressional district is located in central North Carolina and comprises portions of Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Lexington, Salisbury, and High Point.
Before its current creation, North Carolina had a twelfth seat in...
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| x Minnesota's 8th congressional district |
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Minnesota | 8 | Jim Oberstar |
Minnesota's 8th congressional district covers the northeastern part of Minnesota. The district is best-known for its mining, agriculture, and shipping industries; it leans Democratic with a CPVI of D + 3. The district has been represented by Jim...
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| x Illinois' 10th congressional district |
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Illinois | 10 | Mark Kirk |
The 10th congressional district of Illinois lies in the northeast corner of the state and mostly comprises northern suburbs of Chicago. It was created after the 1860 census. It is a Republican-leaning swing district and has been represented by...
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| x Nevada's 2nd congressional district |
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Nevada | 2 | Dean Heller |
The 2nd Congressional District of Nevada is a congressional district occupying all of Nevada outside of Clark County, and some parts of Clark County. The largest city in the district, Reno, along with surrounding Washoe County casts about 70% of the...
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| x Minnesota's 6th congressional district |
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Minnesota | 6 | Michele Bachmann |
Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District includes most or all of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, Wright, Anoka, and Washington counties. The district is Republican-leaning with a CPVI of R + 7. It is currently represented by Michele Bachmann (Republican...
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| x Texas's 28th congressional district |
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Texas | 28 | Henry Cuellar |
Texas District 28 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip in deep south Texas starting south of San Antonio and ending at the U.S.-Mexico border. The current Representative from District 28 is...
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| x Virginia's 5th congressional district |
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Virginia | 5 | Virgil Goode |
Virginia's fifth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia. It covers all or part of Greene, Campbell, Bedford, Albermarle, Nelson, Fluvanna, Buckingham, Cumberland, Appomattox, Prince Edward,...
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| x Florida's 22nd congressional district |
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Florida | 22 | Ron Klein |
Florida's 22nd congressional district is a congressional district in Florida. The residents of the 22nd district are represented in the United States House of Representatives by Democrat Ron Klein. The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score...
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| x Wisconsin's 8th congressional district |
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Wisconsin | 8 | Steve Kagen |
Wisconsin's 8th congressional district is a congressional district of the United States House of Representatives in northeastern Wisconsin. The district includes Green Bay. It is currently represented by Steve Kagen, a Democrat.
It is considered a...
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| x Maryland's 2nd congressional district |
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Maryland | 2 | Dutch Ruppersberger |
The Second Congressional District of Maryland elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives every two years. The district comprises parts of Harford, Baltimore, and Anne Arundel Counties, as well as small portions of the City...
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| x Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district |
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Massachusetts | 3 | Jim McGovern |
Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in central and southeastern Massachusetts. It contains Worcester, the state's second-biggest city. It has been based out of Worcester County since the 1890s. Previously the...
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| x Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district |
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Pennsylvania | 8 | Patrick Murphy |
The 8th Pennsylvania Congressional District serves Bucks County, along with a small portion of Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania. The current Representative is Democrat Patrick Murphy.
District created in 1791 from...
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| x Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district |
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Pennsylvania | 13 | Allyson Schwartz |
The 13th Congressional District of Pennsylvania is located in Southeastern Pennsylvania, covering eastern Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia. The district traditionally included most of Montgomery County, but was redrawn in 2002. Democrat...
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| x Texas's 7th congressional district |
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Texas | 7 | John Culberson |
Texas District 7 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a small area of western Harris County. As of the 2000 census, District 7 comprises 651,620 people.
The district is one of the wealthiest in the...
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| x Texas's 16th congressional district |
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Texas | 16 | Silvestre Reyes |
Texas District 16 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves El Paso and the surrounding area in the state of Texas. The current Representative from District 16 is Silvestre Reyes.
At one time, the 16th...
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| x New Jersey's 3rd congressional district |
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New Jersey | 3 | Jim Saxton |
New Jersey's Third Congressional District is currently represented by Democrat John Adler. It is a swing district, with a CPVI of R+1. Former NFL player Jon Runyan announced he will be running as a Republican against Adler.
For the 108th and...
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| x Virginia's 10th congressional district |
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Virginia | 10 | Frank Rudolph Wolf |
Virginia's Tenth Congressional District is a U.S. congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The residents of the 10th District are currently represented by Republican Congressman Frank Wolf, first elected to the 10th's seat in the U.S....
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| x New York's 14th congressional district |
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New York | 14 | Carolyn B. Maloney |
New York's 14th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in New York City. It includes most of the East Side of Manhattan, all of Roosevelt Island and the neighborhoods of Astoria,...
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| x Virginia's 9th congressional district |
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Virginia | 9 | Rick Boucher |
Virginia's ninth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the commonwealth of Virginia, covering much of the southwestern part of the state. The 9th is Virginia's second-largest district in area, covering 8800.24 square...
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| x New Jersey's 4th congressional district |
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New Jersey | 4 | Chris Smith |
New Jersey's 4th Congressional District is currently represented by Republican Chris Smith. He has represented the district since 1981.
Smith comfortably won re-election in the 2008 election against challenger Joshua M. Zeitz.
For the 108th and...
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| x Missouri's 8th congressional district |
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Missouri | 8 | Jo Ann Emerson |
Missouri's 8th Congressional District encompasses rural Southeast Missouri and South Central Missouri. The district is anchored in the college town of Cape Girardeau. The district also includes the Ozark Plateau, the Lead Belt, and the Bootheel. A...
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| x Georgia's 4th congressional district |
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Georgia | 4 | Hank Johnson |
The Fourth Congressional District of the U.S. State of Georgia includes parts of Dekalb, Rockdale, and Gwinnett Counties in the metro Atlanta area. The district is currently represented in the 111th Congress by Democrat Hank Johnson. In its current...
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| x Iowa's 1st congressional district |
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Iowa | 1 | Bruce Braley |
The 1st Iowan congressional district generally covers the northeastern part of the state. The district is considered Democratic-leaning, because it contains Democratic-leaning cities such as Dubuque, Clinton, Davenport and Waterloo. Democrat;...
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| x Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district |
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Pennsylvania | 9 | Bill Shuster |
Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district is a relatively safe seat for the Republicans. In 2004, for example, the Republican candidate, former businessman Bill Shuster, won a convincing majority over his Democratic opponent winning 70% of the vote....
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| x Georgia’s 7th congressional district |
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Georgia | 7 | John Linder |
Georgia's 7th congressional district includes all of Barrow and Walton Counties and portions of Forsyth, Gwinnett, and Newton Counties. The district has been represented by Republican John Linder since January 2003. Linder defeated Democratic...
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| x New York's 10th congressional district |
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New York | 10 | Ed Towns |
New York's 10th Congressional District is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives located in Brooklyn, New York City. It includes the neighborhoods of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie, East...
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| x Tennessee's 9th congressional district |
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Tennessee | 9 | Steve Cohen |
The 9th Congressional District of Tennessee is a Congressional district in southwestern Tennessee. The district is located entirely within Shelby County, and includes most of the city of Memphis. It is the state's only district located entirely in...
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| x New York's 22nd congressional district |
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New York | 22 | Maurice Hinchey |
The 22nd Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives that includes all or parts of Broome, Delaware, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, and Ulster counties. It includes the...
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| x California’s 34th congressional district |
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California | 34 | Lucille Roybal-Allard |
California's 34th congressional district covers part of Los Angeles County and is California's most heavily Hispanic district. Its current representative is Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard. Rep. Roybal-Allard ran against Republican challenger...
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| x Florida's 5th congressional district |
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Florida | 5 | Ginny Brown-Waite |
Florida's 5th Congressional District comprises all of Citrus County, Hernando County, and Sumter County, most of Lake County, Levy County, and Pasco County, and portions of Marion County and Polk County. The district includes northern exurbs of...
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| x Maine's 2nd congressional district |
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Maine | 2 | Mike Michaud |
Maine's second congressional district is one of Maine's two Congressional districts and at 27,326 square miles comprises nearly 80% of the state. Also in terms of area, it's the largest east of the Mississippi River and 24th largest overall.
The...
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| x Texas's 26th congressional district |
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Texas | 26 | Michael C. Burgess |
Texas District 26 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district in the state of Texas that serves an area in the northern portion of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex centering around Denton County. The current...
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| x Georgia's 8th congressional district |
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Georgia | 8 | Jim Marshall |
Georgia's 8th congressional district is a United States political division, currently represented by Democrat Jim Marshall.
The district was redrawn in 2006 and has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of R+10. In 2006, Marshall, who then represented...
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| x Texas's 10th congressional district |
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Texas | 10 | Michael McCaul |
Texas District 10 of the United States House of Representatives is a congressional district that serves the northwestern portion of the Greater Houston region stretching to the Austin area of Texas. The current representative is Michael McCaul.
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| x Nebraska's 3rd congressional district |
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Nebraska | 3 | Adrian M. Smith |
The 3rd Nebraska Congressional District seat encompasses the western three-fourths of the state; it is one of the largest non-at-large Congressional districts in the country, covering nearly 65,000 square miles, two time zones and 68.5 counties. It...
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| x Iowa's 4th congressional district |
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Iowa | 4 | Tom Latham |
The 4th Iowan Congressional District covers most of northern Iowa, and extending into central Iowa (map); including the college town of Ames, and Fort Dodge. It is currently represented by Republican Tom Latham.
June 22nd, 2001, Iowa Legislature...
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| x New York's 27th congressional district |
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New York | 27 | Brian Higgins |
The 27th Congressional District of New York is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in Western New York. It includes all of Chautauqua County and the southern part of Erie County. The district contains much of the...
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| x Wisconsin's 7th congressional district |
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Wisconsin | 7 | Dave Obey |
Wisconsin's 7th congressional district is a congressional district of the United State House of Representatives in northwestern and central Wisconsin; it is the largest congressional district in the state geographically, covering 20 counties (in...
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| x Ohio's 10th congressional district |
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Ohio | 10 | Dennis Kucinich |
The 10th Congressional District of Ohio is currently represented by Representative Dennis J. Kucinich (D). This district is in northern Ohio, bordering Lake Erie, and includes much of Cuyahoga County. Cook PVI rates this district as D+8.
The...
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| x Ohio's 18th congressional district |
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Ohio | 18 | Zack Space |
The 18th congressional district of Ohio is currently represented by Democrat Zack Space. On November 3, 2006, Republican Representative Robert W. Ney, who had represented the district since 1995, resigned the seat in the wake of his involvement in...
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| x Ohio's 9th congressional district |
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Ohio | 9 | Marcy Kaptur |
The 9th congressional district of Ohio has been represented by Representative Marcia C. Kaptur (D) since 1983.
This district is in the northern part of the state, bordering Michigan and Ontario, Canada (via Lake Erie), and includes the counties of...
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| x Tennessee's 3rd congressional district |
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Tennessee | 3 | Zach Wamp |
The 3rd Congressional District of Tennessee is a congressional district in Tennessee. It currently includes a north-south strip in the eastern part of the state.
Cities in the district include Chattanooga, Oak Ridge, and Cleveland. Its configuration...
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| x Texas's 24th congressional district |
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Texas | 24 | Kenny Marchant |
Texas District 24 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a suburban area in between Fort Worth and Dallas in the state of Texas. The district centers along the Dallas-Tarrant county line, and includes...
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| x Maryland's 6th congressional district |
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Maryland | 6 | Roscoe Bartlett |
Maryland's Sixth Congressional District elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state. Today the district comprises all of Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll Counties, as...
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| x Texas's 31st congressional district |
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Texas | 31 | John Carter |
Texas District 31 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves a strip of central Texas from north Austin up to Stephenville. The district includes most of the fast-growing northern suburbs of Austin, the...
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| x Arkansas's 3rd congressional district |
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Arkansas | 3 | John Boozman |
Arkansas's 3rd congressional district covers Northwest Arkansas and takes in Bentonville, Fayetteville, Springdale and Fort Smith. The district is currently represented by John Boozman, a Republican.
George W. Bush received 62% of the vote in this...
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| x Florida's 13th congressional district |
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Florida | 13 | Vern Buchanan |
Florida's 13th congressional district encompasses all of Sarasota, DeSoto, and Hardee County, and most of Manatee County, except for a small northern coastal portion in District 11. It also includes a small section of Charlotte County. It is...
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| x Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district |
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Wisconsin | 2 | Tammy Baldwin |
Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district of the United States House of Representatives in southern Wisconsin, covering Dane County, Green County and Columbia County, as well as portions of Jefferson County, Sauk County,...
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| x Alabama's 6th congressional district |
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Alabama | 6 | Spencer Bachus |
Alabama's Sixth Congressional District is a U.S. congressional district in Alabama, which elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives. It encompasses the counties of Chilton, Bibb and Shelby. It also includes parts of St....
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| x California’s 44th congressional district |
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California | 44 | Ken Calvert |
California's 44th congressional district currently covers an area of Southern California from San Clemente in Orange County on the coast, north-by-northeast inland to Riverside County, including the cities of Corona, Norco, Rubidoux, and Riverside....
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| x Indiana's 2nd congressional district |
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Indiana | 2 | Joe Donnelly |
The Second Congressional District of Indiana is centered on South Bend, Indiana and the Indiana portion of the Michiana region. Its current representative is Joe Donnelly (D).
Prior to 2002, District 2 covered east central Indiana. However,...
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| x Nevada's 1st congressional district |
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Nevada | 1 | Shelley Berkley |
The 1st Congressional District of Nevada occupies most of the Las Vegas, as well as parts of North Las Vegas and parts of unincorporated Clark County. The district now leans Democratic. Prior to the 2000 census it was slightly less Democratic...
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