Late Monday evening, Utah’s legislature passed a controversial redistricting plan, Ben Winslow reported on Google+. According to FOX News:
Passage of the map came after House Republicans went into a closed caucus multiples times throughout the day, spending more than six hours working privately on a final map. Lawmakers spent less than four hours debating the map on the House and Senate floors, despite being at the Capitol for nearly 14 hours…. The Senate, which passed a similar map last week, agreed to changes and passed the map referred to as “Ipson 19” before adjourning late Monday night.
The new district map cuts Utah County in half — basically along the line created by US I-15. It divides Salt Lake County into three parts. Salt Lake City is the county seat and the state capitol; the county is the most populous in the state, with 1+ million people. The population of Utah is 2.8 million.
Apportionment is the process using data from the decennial census to allocate the 435 seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states; the result is called redistricting. Utah gained one Congressional seat (from three to four).
Nationally, the 2010 Census resulted in relocation of 12 Congressional seats. Gaining seats, 10: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington. Losing seats, 12: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. No change: 32 states. (2010 Census Redistricting Data – pdf)
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