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Louisiana's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district comprises land from the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain south to the Mississippi River delta. The district is currently represented by Republican Steve Scalise. ==History== Prior to 1974, the 1st Congressional District was entirely south of Lake Pontchartrain. As a result of population changes reflected n the 1970 U.S. Census and a concern to ensure that the 2nd Congressional District was majority African American. This was to comply with the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965 to enforce constitutional rights of minorities in voting, including the opportunity to elect a representative and to redistrict after censuses. In 1974, the state legislature redefined the 1st Congressional District, dropping its precincts south of the lake and adding St. Tammany Parish, which borders Lake Pontchartrain on the north, from the 6th Congressional District. Subsequently, the 1st Congressional District has acquired Tangipahoa and Washington parishes, both north of the lake, from the 6th Congressional District. Correspondingly, the 1st Congressional District has shed conservative St. Bernard Parish and other areas south of the lake to the 3rd Congressional District. Overall, the 1st Congressional District has become a very safe district for the Republican Party.〔Cook Partisan Voting Index〕 Before the 1960s, it was controlled by Democrats, but conservative whites realigned with the Republican Party. The number of registered voters north of the lake is, as of 2008, slightly higher than south of the lake; however, the 1st Congressional District has yet to be represented by a resident from north of Lake Pontchartrain.〔Several residents of the northlake area (eastern Florida Parishes) served in Congress to represent the 6th Congressional District before it ceded territory to the 1st Congressional District.〕 The reformulation of the 1st Congressional District so that it virtually surrounds "the nation's second-largest saltwater lake" has generated a local joke that in the 1st Congressional District of Louisiana, the voters are outnumbered by the fish. The seat was held by current Governor Bobby Jindal. Republicans have held the seat since 1977. That year Bob Livingston won a special election after Richard Alvin Tonry, who won the seat in 1976, was forced to resign the seat and lost the Democratic primary in the special election. From 2003 to 2013, the district comprised mostly land on the North Shore and South Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, although it also contained areas west of Lake Pontchartrain. The district included some or all of the following parishes: Washington, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Jefferson, Orleans and St. Charles. It also included the cities of Hammond and Slidell and most of the western suburbs of New Orleans, including Metairie and Kenner, along with a small portion of the city itself. The district had the lowest percentage of African-American residents among the state's six-district Congressional delegation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louisiana's 1st congressional district」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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