An Act To Reapportion the Districts for Representatives to the United States Congress
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1556
Sponsors: DUNLAP
Amends: 21-A MRSA §1205

Legislative Document 
No. 1556 
H.P.1139 
House of Representatives, April 10, 2003 
An Act To Reapportion the Districts for Representatives to the 
United States Congress 
Submitted by the Apportionment Commission pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
21-A, section 1206. 
Presented by Representative DUNLAP of Old Town. 
Printed on recycled paper 
/J1~ 
'fr}. 7l/dC~ 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. I. 21-A MRSA §1205, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 628, §2, 
is repealed. 
Sec. 2. Apportionment of congressional districts; legislative intent. 
The State is divided into 
districts for 
the election of 
Representatives 
to 
the 
United 
States 
Congress, 
with 
one 
Representative elected from each of the districts established in 
the plan for the apportionment of the congressional districts 
submitted by a majority of the apportionment commission to the 
Clerk of the House on April 3, 2003. 
Notwithstanding the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 21-A, 
the Legislature intends by the 
passage of this Act to 
implement the plan establishing the 
districts and to make the apportionment as described in Appendix 
A of this Act. 
SUMMARY 
This 
bill 
repeals 
the 
current 
statutory 
congressional 
districts and enacts the districts to the United States Congress 
as described in the report submitted by 
a 
majority of the 
apportionment commission to the Clerk of the House. 
Plan: 
Plan Type: 
Administrator: 
User: 
APPENDIX A OF LR 2084 
USHOUSE 
Congress 
Maj ority Report 
Plan Components Report 
Cumberland County 
Kennebec County 
MCD: Augusta 
MCD: Belgrade 
MCD: Chelsea 
MCD: Fanningdale 
MCD: Fayette 
MCD: Gardiner 
MCJ): Hallowell 
MCD: Litchfield 
MCD: Manchester 
:M:CD: Mount Vernon 
MCD: Pittston 
MCD: Randolph 
MCD: Readfield 
MCD:Rome 
MCD: Sidney 
MCD: Vassalboro 
MCD:Wayne 
MCD: West Gardiner 
MCD: Windsor 
MCD: Winthrop 
Kennebec County Subtotal 
Knox County 
Lincoln CoUnty 
Sagadahoc CoUnty 
Waldo County 
MCD: Belmont 
MCD: Liberty 
MCD: Montville 
MCD: Palermo 
MCD: Searsmont 
Waldo County Subtotal 
York County 
District 1 Subtotal 
Androscoggin County 
Aroostook County 
Franklin County 
Hancock County 
Kennebec County 
MCD: AJbion 
MCD: Benton 
MCD: China 
MCD: Clinton 
MCD: Monmouth 
Population 
265,612 
18,560 
2,978 
2,559 
2,804 
1,040 
6,198 
2,467 
3,110 
2,465 
1,524 
2,548 
1,911 
2,360 
3,514 
4,047 
1,112 
2,902 
2,204 
6,232 
71,515 
39,618 
33,616 
35,214 
1,002 
1,220 
1,174 
5,144 
186,742 
637,461 
103,793 
73,938 
29,467 
51,791 
1,946 
2,557 
4,106 
3,340 
1/2 
3,785 
MCD: Oakland 
5,959 
MCD: Unity (2301178190) 
MCD: Vienna 
MCD: Watervil1e 
15,605 
MCD: Winslow 
7,743 
Kennebec County Subtotal 
45,599 
Oxford County 
54,755 
Penobscot County 
144,919 
Piscataquis County 
17,235 
Somerset County 
50,888 
Waldo County 
MCD: Belfast 
6,381 
MCD:Brooks 
1,022 
MCD: Burnham 
1,142 
MCD: Frankfort 
1,041 
MCD: Freedom 
MCD: Islesboro 
MCD: Jackson 
MCD:Knox 
MCD: Lincolnville 
2,042 
MCD:MoJ..lToe 
MCD: Morrill 
MCD: Northport 
1,331 
MCD: Prospect 
MCD: Searsport 
2,641 
MCD: Stockton Springs 
1,481 
MCD: Swanville 
1,357 
MCD: Thorndike 
MCD: Troy 
MCD:Unity 
1,8S9 
MCD: Waldo 
MCD: Winterport 
3,602 
Waldo County Subtotal 
31,136 
Washington County 
33,941 
District 2 Subtotal 
637,462 
State totals 
1,274,923 
2/2