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Nesting
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Nesting refers the practice of using the voting districts of one body to define the voting districts of another body. For example, a state may require that each district of its upper chamber comprise two or three complete lower chamber districts. There may be instances in which the boundaries of a state House district correspond to those of a state Senate district by coincidence; this is not an example of nesting, as nesting must be deliberate.[1]
A total of 18 states use nesting when creating some or all of their state legislative voting districts: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.[1][2][3][4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 All About Redistricting, "Overview," accessed June 21, 2017
- ↑ Illinois General Assembly, "Article IV of the Illinois Constitution," accessed June 27, 2017
- ↑ Wyoming Legislature, " H.B. 0032," accessed June 27, 2017
- ↑ Nevada Legislature, "Facts About the Nevada Legislature," accessed October 13, 2021
