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The largest city in Texas, Houston has an election system that stands alone among the state’s major cities, which have all abandoned at-large voting. Other large U.S. cities, including New York City and Los Angeles, long ago abandoned at-large districts. The fight to rid the state of at-large districts goes back decades, when civil rights attorneys and Texans of color successfully challenged election systems across the state under the Voting Rights Act in hopes of giving voters of color more say in who represents them.
The federal lawsuit follows the City Council’s October vote to approve new boundaries for its 11 single-member districts to incorporate population growth captured in the 2020 census. In a city of 2.3 million, Latinos make up about 44% of the population and easily account for the largest demographic group.
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