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A congressional district is an electoral constituency that elects a single member of a congress. Countries with congressional districts include the United States, the Philippines, and Japan. A congressional district is based on population, which, in the United States, is taken using a census every ten years.

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Japan [edit]

Main article: List of Districts of the House of Representatives of Japan.

Philippines [edit]

Main article: Legislative districts of the Philippines.

United States [edit]

Main article: List of United States congressional districts.

There are 435 congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives,^[1] with each one representing approximately 700,000 people.^[2] The Census Bureau within the United States Department of Commerce conducts a decennial census whose figures are used to determine the number of congressional districts within each state.

References [edit]

^ See Public Law 62-5 of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 capped the size of the House at 435.
^ http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-08.pdf

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