31.   But when census figures were released last December the state learned that it would forfeit a congressional seat because other states grew more.

32.   Campbell is leaving his South Bay congressional seat to run against Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

33.   Calling his candidacy premature, they accused his father of using the congressional seat as a kind of graduation present.

34.   Carolyn McCarthy, a freshman Democrat, has been in demand since she entered the race for a Long Island congressional seat last year.

35.   Clinton will probably go to California, where the Democrats are eying five congressional seats that could help make them the majority party in the House.

36.   Closer to home, Republicans hope to win as many as three Texas congressional seats and capture a majority in the Texas Senate for the first time since Reconstruction.

37.   Control of additional congressional seats, assigned by proportional representation, will not be determined until all votes are tallied.

38.   Currently these include Hillary Clinton, running for Senate from New York, and Jon Gordon, seeking a congressional seat in California.

39.   Congressional seats open up rarely in New York City.

40.   Democrats are aiming to add a congressional seat for their party in Southern California based on new U.S. census figures that will determine political districts for the next decade.