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California's 23rd congressional district covers parts of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. It is one of 53 California Congressional Districts. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1070x666, 73 KB)Format conversion and upload by User:Leonard G. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Ventura County . ...
Santa Barbara County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the southern portion of the U.S. state of California, just west of Ventura County. ...
San Luis Obispo County is a county located on the central Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California, between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. ...
Californias 38th congressional district The U.S. state of California is divided into political segments known as California Congressional Districts. ...
The current Representative for this district is Lois Capps, a Democrat. United States Capitol (2002) // The One Hundred Ninth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. ...
Lois Capps Lois G. Capps (born January 10, 1938), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing the 23rd District of California (map), which consists of a long thin strip of coastline in Southern California and includes the cities of San...
The district is moderately to heavily (in some places) Democratic with Capps winning the last election (2006) with 65% of the vote. John Kerry received 58% of the vote in this district in 2004; George W. Bush received 40%.[1] The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of D +9.
Proportionally, it is one of the narrowest districts in the United States and is barely noticeable on most maps. The lines of this district are controversial and are a result of California's bi-partisan incumbent gerrymandering. The district lines are used both as an outrageous example of Gerrymandering (since the district favors a Democrat and is over 200 miles long) and paradoxically as an outstanding example of the preservation of the common interests of voters. If the district was distributed among the adjacent inland districts there would be less effective representation of coastal interests, particularly with regards to fisheries, tourism, development, and offshore oil drilling. Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas Politics Portal Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic...
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ...
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...
The Cook Partisan Voting Index indicates how much more Democratic or Republican a district performs compared to the nation as a whole. ...
The recent and current politics of the U.S. state of California are complex and involve a number of entrenched interests. ...
Redrawing electoral districts in this example creates a guaranteed 3-to-1 advantage for Party 1. ...
However, to preserve Republican numbers representing California in the House of Representatives, the state Republican party has fought to avoid having any part of this district combined with the less-populous parts of either Ventura or Santa Barbara counties, as this would erode Republican majorities.
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