reapportionment

1. How will the reapportionment following the2000 census affect the distribution of seats around the country and the partisan balance of Congress after the2002 election?
   2000年选举后的重新任命将如何影响2002年选举后国家和和党派间的制衡的席位分配？
2. Reapportionment and merger reduced the number of military area commands from eleven to seven.
   大军区由11个撤并为7个。

noun

1. a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results)

   Synonym:    reallotmentreallocation