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Louisiana's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district contains nearly all of the city of New Orleans and stretches west and north to Baton Rouge. The district is currently represented by Democrat Cedric Richmond. ==History== Louisiana gained the 2nd Congressional District in 1823 as part of the 18th United States Congress. At first it comprised New Orleans and significant populations from surrounding areas, but it has incrementally been compacted into being mostly within the city of New Orleans ''per se.'' It has also historically been among the most safely Democratic seats in the country. It remained in Democratic hands from 1891 until Republican nominee Joseph Cao upset Democratic incumbent Bill Jefferson in 2008 for the term beginning in January 2009. Like most congressional seats in the South, this district consistently voted Democratic from the time of Reconstruction until the 1960s. Since then, its position as an unassailable Democratic seat is due to its configuration as a "Majority-Minority" district created as a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure minority voters have a chance to elect representatives of their own choice to Congress, and to guard against adverse racially-motivated gerrymandering. It has been drawn as a black-majority district since 1983. It is currently the only black-majority district containing any territory west of the Mississippi River. The district's previous incumbent, Joseph Cao, became not only the first Republican to represent the 2nd Congressional District and most of New Orleans in over a century, but also America's first Vietnamese-American U.S. Representative. He was the only Republican in the 111th Congress representing a predominantly African American district. For most of the time from 1983 to 2013, the district contained nearly all of the city of New Orleans (except for a small portion is located in the neighboring ), and some of its suburbs. From 2003 to 2013, it also included the West Bank portion of Jefferson Parish and South South Kenner.〔(Political Graveyard )〕 After the 2010 census, it was pushed slightly to the west, picking up a portion of Baton Rouge. 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 2nd congressional district」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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