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cal officials on how to conduct local redistricting.” He noted it is imperative that local redistricting be completed rapidly once official figures become available “because the legislature can’t redraw the boundaries of House and Senate districts without knowing where the precinct lines are going to be in the localities.”
Del. Dickinson said his feeling is that the General Assembly will tackle only reapportionment of its own seats this year and that it won’t act on congressional redistricting until next January.
“There aren’t any congressional elections until 1992 so I don’t see any reason to go to the considerable ex-. pense of a special session to. draw those lines when we can wait until the regular 1992 session.”
Though Democrats will be in complete charge of the process since they control both the legislative and executive branches, Republicans are nevertheless heartened by preliminary population estimates that confirm the state’s heaviest growth has been in those regions where they should run strongest.
Of 100 House of Delegates seats, ^ for example, 35 contain more than the ideal population of 61,349 and they are located in the Richmond suburbs, in Prince William and outer areas of Fairfax, in the ChesapeakeVirginia Beach area and in a band running from Frederick-Winchester southeast across the Upper Piedmont and Central Virginia to the
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