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Q. What is redistricting?<\/strong><\/p>\n A<\/strong>. Redistricting refers to the process of redrawing political boundaries.\u00a0Illinois\u2019 legislative and congressional districts are required to be redrawn every ten years to reflect changes in population, and ensure every resident has an equal voice.\u00a0Redistricting does not affect the number of legislators per district or state \u2013 but how those lines are divided based on the latest reapportionment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Q. What is reapportionment?<\/strong><\/p>\n A<\/strong>.\u00a0Reapportionment is the process of reassigning the number of seats within a legislative body.\u00a0The best example of reapportionment can be seen in the congressional reapportionment that takes place every ten years to reflect changes in population.\u00a0The U.S. Census Bureau determines how the 435 congressional seats will be divided among 50 states.\u00a0States that gain population will likely gain seats.\u00a0States whose population has decreased since the 2010 census may lose a number of seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Q. Who determines the political boundaries?<\/strong><\/p>\n A.\u00a0<\/strong>The Illinois State Constitution gives the General Assembly the responsibility for redrawing the congressional and legislative political boundaries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Q. When do the lines change?<\/strong><\/p>\n A.\u00a0<\/strong>In Illinois the new congressional, state senate, and state representative lines will be in place for the 2022 primary elections.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_sidebar admin_label=”2011 Sidebar” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”12px” body_line_height=”0.6em” background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.69)” max_width=”100%” max_height=”1250px” custom_padding=”8px|8px|8px|8px|true|true” hover_enabled=”0″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_sidebar][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FAQ Q. What is redistricting? A. Redistricting refers to the process of redrawing political boundaries.\u00a0Illinois\u2019 legislative and congressional districts are required to be redrawn every ten years to reflect changes in population, and ensure every resident has an equal voice.\u00a0Redistricting does not affect the number of legislators per district or state \u2013 but how those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilhousedems.com\/redistricting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}