senate district

collocation in English

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senate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsen.ət/us
/ˈsen.ət/
one of the two groups of politicians who make laws in some political systems such as in the US, Australia, and France, often having different powers from the other group and different rules for members, for example being elected for a ...
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district
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/us
/ˈdɪs.trɪkt/
an area of a country or town that has fixed borders that are used for official purposes, or that has a particular feature that makes it different from ...
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(Definition ofsenateanddistrictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Detractors, however, claimed that his suburbansenatedistrictwas insufficiently served with so much legislative time spent on environment and outdoors issues.
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His statesenatedistrictwas virtually co-extensive with the southern portion of the congressional district.
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However, his statesenatedistrictincludes much of the southeastern portion of the congressional district.
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The 85th and 86th districts are made up of the same area as the forty-thirdsenatedistrict.
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The district shares the same western boundaries as the forty-firstsenatedistrict.
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It is unclear from the sources what thesenatedistrictwas, and whether he ended up running for the office in the wake of the party split.
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The constitution required that the 54 senate districts rotate among their counties every two years.
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He opted to not run for re-election in 2012 in the newly drawn district and instead mounted an unsuccessful run in, which includes almost all of his statesenatedistrict.
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Senate districts corresponded exactly to county boundaries, thus yielding one senator for each of the state's 46 counties.
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Each of the 33 senate districts is formed by combining three house districts.
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She did not run for reelection after reapportionment altered the senate district's boundaries.
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At the time state senate districts were not numbered, as there was no one-man, one-vote requirement.
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Each of the 33 senate districts is composed of three contiguous of the 99 house of representatives district.
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Senate districts were entitled to be represented by no more than one member.
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The city is split between two state senate districts (29 and 31) and two state house districts (91 and 93).
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In some cases state senate districts were based partly on county lines; in the vast majority of states the senate districts provided proportionately greater representation to rural areas.
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In 1965, the assembly and senate districts were re-apportioned and both houses were renewed, the members being elected for an exceptional one-year term (session of 1966).
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