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Colorado's 7th Congressional district
The 7th Congressional district of Colorado is located in central Colorado, encompassing much of the northern parts of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area, including the cities of Lakewood, Arvada, and Aurora. It is represented in the 109th Congress by Republican Bob Beauprez, who gave up his seat to run for Governor of Colorado in 2006. Democrat Ed Perlmutter was elected to replace him.
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The 7th Congressional district was created following the 2000 U.S. census and associated realignment and reapportionment of Colorado congressional districts. It consists of portions of Adams, Arapahoe, and Jefferson counties. The boundaries were drawn by a court after the state legislature failed to agree on a redistricting plan. It has been described as the most competitive congressional district in the United States, being almost equally split three ways between registered Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters. In 2003 state Republicans, who at that time controlled both houses of the legislature, redrew the district's boundaries to make it more favorable to them, removing much of the western suburbs and adding much of Arapahoe and Elbert counties. Democrats sued to block the plan and won, with the state Supreme Court ruling that redistricting could not be done more than once every ten years, so the legislature could not redistrict after failing to do so before the first post-census election.
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