George H. W. Bush carried the new 6th with a staggering 71 percent of the vote, proving just how Republican this reconfigured district was.

Mr. Colon is trying to connect with the new voters in the reconfigured district.

Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer will run in the reconfigured 3rd district, which includes most of the 9th district he has represented since 2009.

While the reconfigured district contains half of Biggert's former territory, it was made significantly more Democratic than before.

He was handily reelected from this reconfigured district in 2002.

In this reconfigured district, Schisler won reelection along with fellow Republican Adelaide C. Eckardt, one of the candidates he defeated in 1990.

The vastly reconfigured district in 2012 will include only Tangipahoa Parish.

Nowlin was unseated in a reconfigured district in 2011 but elected in 2012 as the first Natchitoches Parish president.

While still living in Vernon, Hightower served from 1965 to 1974 in two reconfigured districts in the Texas Senate.

If it is ruled unconstitutional, a white Republican would probably stand a good chance of winning the reconfigured district.