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An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity.
Indiana's 10th congressional district, obsolete since the 2000 census; Indiana's 11th congressional district, obsolete since the 1980 census; Indiana's 12th congressional district, obsolete since the 1940 census; Indiana's 13th congressional district, obsolete since the 1930 census; Indiana's at-large congressional district (1816–1823; 1873 ...
Congressional districts in the United States are electoral divisions for the purpose of electing members of the United States House of Representatives. The number of voting seats within the House of Representatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the 2020 United States census . [ 1 ]
Electoral history Representative Party Electoral history 14th 15th 16th 17th: December 11, 1816 – July 25, 1822 William Hendricks : Democratic-Republican: Elected in August 1816. Re-elected August 4, 1817, after the term began but before the Congress convened. Re-elected August 3, 1818. Re-elected August 7, 1820. Resigned to become Governor ...
In the election of 1820, incumbent President James Monroe ran effectively unopposed, winning all three of Indiana’s electoral votes, and all electoral votes nationwide except one vote in New Hampshire. To the extent that a popular vote was held, it was primarily directed to filling the office of vice president.
Former governor and U.S. Senator Evan Bayh announced in 2006 his plans for a presidential exploratory committee. [3] His father was a three-term senator who was turned out of office in the 1980 Reagan Revolution by conservative Republican (and future Vice President) Dan Quayle, a native of Huntington in the northeastern portion of the state.
Indiana's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana.From 2003 to 2013 the district was based primarily in the central part of the state, and consisted of all of Boone, Clinton, Hendricks, Morgan, Lawrence, Montgomery, and Tippecanoe counties and parts of Fountain, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, and White counties.
Indiana's 2nd congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress in Northern Indiana.It includes South Bend, Elkhart, and Warsaw.. Prior to 2002, the 2nd congressional district covered east central Indiana, including most of the territory now in the 6th district.