The Orange Senate District is one of 13 Vermont Senate districts included in the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. The plan applies to legislatures elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. A new plan will be developed in 2012 following the 2010 U.S. Census.
The Orange District includes all of Orange County except the towns of Bradford, Fairlee, Newbury, Orange, Topsham, and West Fairlee, which are in the Caledonia district.
As of the 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 30 Senators, there were 20,294 residents per senator. The Orange District had a population of 19,852 in that same census. The district is apportioned one senator. The district's 19,852 residents per senator is 2.18% below the state average.
District Senator
- Mark MacDonald, Democrat
Towns and cities in the Orange District
Orange County
- Braintree
- Brookfield
- Chelsea
- Corinth
- Randolph
- Strafford
- Thetford
- Tunbridge
- Vershire
- Washington
- Williamstown
- Orange
See also
External links
- Map of Vermont Senate districts and statistics (PDF)
- Vermont Act 151 (2002), which created the districts. Note comprehensive act, redistricting section begins on page 67. (PDF)