reapportionment
重新分配,重新摊派,重新分配名额,改选
Definitions
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- : the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
- : the redistribution of representation in a legislative body.
Examples
The law, the Apportionment Act of 1929, created what we know as the “automatic” reapportionment process today.
So even though the average House district will have just over 760,000 people after this round of reapportionment, each state’s average district will vary quite a bit, especially as states get smaller in size.
This left Congress at an impasse, and over the next few years, reapportionment stalled.
So based on population patterns and local political considerations, here’s our best judgment about which party will benefit from reapportionment in each state.
The reapportionment data “almost always masks significant over-counting and undercounting at the local and community level,” she said.
The Constitution requires that reapportionment or redistricting take place every ten years to offset population changes.
In this reapportionment Sangamon County's delegation had been enlarged to seven representatives and two senators.
There is a new reapportionment every ten years, counting from 1821.
In the dawn Parr hobbled down the line of yawning porters, checking the reapportionment of burdens.
A reapportionment act was therefore to be expected from the next legislature.