How to Use congressional district in a Sentence

congressional district

noun
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state's three congressional districts.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The other three go to the winners of each of the state’s three congressional districts.
    — Maya Marchel Hoff, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
  • His was the most pro-Trump congressional district in New York state in 2020.
    — Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the reason the outcome is up in the air is due to the state's losing a congressional district after the 2020 Census.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Trump won Maine’s second congressional district and Biden won the first, plus the state’s two at-large electoral votes.
    — Josh Wingrove, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Jason strikes me as the type who, in ten or fifteen years, is running for the GOP seat in his congressional district.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • In the past, congressional district lines have been reviewed by federal judges and not the state Supreme Court.
    — John Hanna, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • The good news is the 16th congressional district’s long painful exercise counting the votes is over!
    — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
  • Maine is one of two states that have awarded electoral votes based on the congressional district.
    — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The winner in each of the state's three congressional districts is awarded an electoral vote.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The next highest congressional district in the state is $8 billion.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Caitlin Draper of Fayetteville filed as a Democrat in the 3rd congressional district last week.
    — Michael R. Wickline, arkansasonline.com, 14 Nov. 2023
  • For years, Democrats have avidly eyed a congressional district in central New York as ripe for the flipping.
    — Grace Ashford, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Nebraska is one of just two states to award a share of its electoral votes by congressional district.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
  • It was pushed back from Feb. 22 by the Maryland Court of Appeals because of a legal challenge to the state’s new congressional district map.
    — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The state is one of two, along with Maine, allocates its electoral votes based on congressional district.
    — Haley Ott, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The mayor in one of the towns in my congressional district and in my state Senate district was decided by drawing the name out of the hat because it was tied.
    — Salena Zito, Washington Examiner, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The two congressmen were drawn into the same House seat after the state lost a congressional district after the 2020 Census.
    — CBS News, 11 May 2022
  • The congressional district includes the Charlottesville area and stretches south to Danville.
    — Antonio Olivo, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023
  • AP McCarthy, 56, is known for his detailed knowledge of the congressional district map, his quick smile and his fundraising.
    — Lissandra Villa, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
  • At the same time, Trump has to maintain small margins in the Nebraska 1st congressional district, Montana and Iowa.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The seats are just two of seven congressional districts on the ballot for voters in Tarrant County.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If for some reason this turns into a red tsunami, keep an eye on the 10th congressional district in Virginia.
    — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Lieu said the effects of the last spill in Refugio could be felt 125 miles south, in his congressional district, which includes coastal areas in the Los Angeles area.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Two years later, the congressional district that includes San Clemente elected a Democrat for the first time since its creation in 1972.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2021
  • That means the three of Nebraska's five electoral votes will go to the winner in each of the state's three congressional districts, and the two remaining votes will go to the winner of the state's popular vote.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Nebraska is one of two states, along with Maine, that splits its electoral votes based on congressional districts, awarding bonus votes to the overall winner of the state.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Republicans represent 14 of the top 20 congressional districts that are set to gain the most jobs.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2025
  • So my district is Colorado's third congressional district and nearly one-in-three people in that district rely on Medicaid.
    — Michel Martin , Obed Manuel, NPR, 2 May 2025

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