Title 2 — The CongressRelease 119-73
§2c Number of Congressional Districts; number of Representatives from each District
Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - ELECTION OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES › § 2c
Summary
If a State is given more than one Representative for the Ninety-first Congress or any later Congress under the apportionment in section 2a(a), the State must create by law the same number of congressional districts as Representatives it gets. Members of the House must be elected only from those districts, and each district may elect only one Representative. One exception: a State that has always elected its Representatives at-large (statewide) may use at-large elections for the Ninety-first Congress.
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Title 2, §2c
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In each State entitled in the Ninety-first Congress or in any subsequent Congress thereafter to more than one Representative under an apportionment made pursuant to the provisions of section 2a(a) of this title, there shall be established by law a number of districts equal to the number of Representatives to which such State is so entitled, and Representatives shall be elected only from districts so established, no district to elect more than one Representative (except that a State which is entitled to more than one Representative and which has in all previous elections elected its Representatives at Large may elect its Representatives at Large to the Ninety-first Congress).
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2 U.S.C. § 2c
Title 2 — The Congress
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73