Template:Infobox U.S. congressional district/doc

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This template is used to include lots of statistical information about a United States congressional district in a neat table.

Usage

California's {{{district number}}}th congressional district
[[File:{{{image name}}}|{{{image width}}}|alt={{{image alt}}}]]
{{{image caption}}}
Member
  {{{representative}}}
AreaTemplate:Convinfobox/prisec2
Population ({{{population year}}}){{{population}}}
Median household
income
{{{median income}}}
Cook PVI{{{cpvi}}}
Created{{{created}}}
Eliminated{{{eliminated}}}
Years active{{{years}}}

Copy and paste the template below:

{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
| state                      = 
| district number            = 
| image name                 = 
| image width                = 
| image caption              = 
| member type                =
      <!-- if delegate or resident commissioner -->

| representative             =
      <!-- Must be current; otherwise empty. -->

| party                      = 
| residence                  =
      <!-- City only (without the state) -->

| disamb                     =
      <!-- County or other portion of residence article name -->

| english area               =
| metric area                = 
| percent urban              = 
| percent rural              = 
| population                 = 
| population year            = 
| median income              = 
| ethnicity ref              = 
| percent white              = 
| percent black              = 
| percent asian              = 
| percent native american    = 
| percent native hawaiian    = 
| percent hispanic           = 
| percent other race         = 
| percent more than one race = 
| percent blue collar        = 
| percent white collar       = 
| percent gray collar        = 
| cpvi                       = 
}}

Usage for obsolete congressional districts

Add the following fields to use this template in articles for obsolete congressional districts.

| obsolete                   = yes
      <!--required for other fields to display properly. All other fields are optional.-->
      
| created                    = 
| eliminated                 = 
| years                      =

Notes

  • Only the state and district number fields are required. All other fields are optional, and the table has logic to display the data correctly even when some fields are missing. (However, if the first field in a category is missing, all fields in that category will be assumed empty. For example, if percent blue collar is missing, any value in percent white collar will be ignored.)
  • You should not include units, percent signs (%), or dollar signs ($) in your fields. These are provided for you.
  • For obsolete districts, the field obsolete is required, and must be yes in order for the remainder of the fields to display. This ensures that fields unique to obsolete districts will not be displayed on existing congressional districts.

Examples

Below are three examples, and what they look like.


Alabama's 1st congressional district
File:Alabama1st.JPG
District map as of 2002
Representative
  {{{representative}}}
AreaTemplate:Convinfobox/prisec2
Distribution
  • 64.4% urban
  • 35.6% rural
Population (2000)635,300
Median household
income
34,739
Ethnicity
Occupation
Cook PVIR+12

An example with all fields filled in:

{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
| state                      = Alabama
| district number            = 1
| image name                 = Alabama1st.JPG
| image width                = 250
| image caption              = District map as of 2002
| english area               = 7,182
| metric area                = 2,322
| percent urban              = 64.4
| percent rural              = 35.6
| population                 = 635,300
| population year            = 2000
| median income              = 34,739
| percent white              = 67.8
| percent black              = 28
| percent asian              = 1
| percent native american    = 1
| percent native hawaiian    = 0.05
| percent hispanic           = 1.3
| percent other race         = 1
| percent more than one race = 1.91
| percent blue collar        = 29.7
| percent white collar       = 54.5
| percent gray collar        = 15.6
| cpvi                       = R+12
}}
Alabama's 1st congressional district
File:Alabama1st.JPG
Representative
  {{{representative}}}
Area7,182 sq mi (18,600 km2)
Population ()635,300
Median household
income
34,739

An example with few fields filled in:

{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
| state                      = Alabama
| district number            = 1
| image name                 = Alabama1st.JPG
| english area               = 7,182
| population                 = 635,300
| median income              = 34,739
}}
Alabama's 10th congressional district
Obsolete district
Population (1920)170,857
Created1913, as a result of
1910 census
Eliminated1933, as a result of
1930 census
Years active1913–1933

An example for an obsolete congressional district:

{{Infobox U.S. congressional district
| state                      = Alabama
| district number            = 10
| obsolete                   = yes
| created                    = 1913
| census created             = 1910
| eliminated                 = 1933
| census eliminated          = 1930
| years                      = 1913–1933
| population                 = 170,857
| population year            = 1920
}}

TemplateData

Extended content
This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Infobox U.S. congressional district

An Infobox for Congressional districts represented in the United States House of Representatives.

Template parameters

This template has custom formatting.

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Statestate

The state the district is part of

Example
Connecticut
Page namerequired
District numberdistrict number

The number of the district

Example
1
Stringsuggested
member typemember type

no description

Unknownoptional
Representativerepresentative

The name of the representative, optionally wikilinked

Example
'{{Representative|cacd|28|fmt=linked}}', '[[Adam Schiff]]'
Stringoptional
Representative's partyparty

The political party the district's current representative is a member of

Example
'{{Representative|cacd|28|fmt=party}}', 'Democratic'
Contentsuggested
Residenceresidence

The residence of the district's representative

Example
'{{Representative|cacd|28|fmt=residence}}', '[[Burbank]]'
Contentsuggested
Cook Partisan Voting Indexcpvi

The district's Cook Partisan Voting Index, a ranking of likely voting by party and margin of victory

Example
D+23<ref name=Cook>{{cite web|url=http://cookpolitical.com/file/Arranged_by_State_District.pdf|title=Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress|publisher=The Cook Political Report|date=April 7, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2017}}</ref>
Contentsuggested
Map imageimage name

a map of the region, or a map with the region highlighted within a parent region

Fileoptional
Image widthimage width

If used, 'px' must be specified; default is 250px.

Stringoptional
Map captionimage caption

Caption for the image displayed

Contentoptional
Map alternate textimage alt

Hover text for the image displayed

Stringoptional
Year establishedcreated

Year the district was created

Stringsuggested
Year eliminatedeliminated

Date the district stopped

Stringoptional
Years activeyears

Year range active

Stringoptional
Obsolete?obsolete

'yes' if the district is no longer active

Stringoptional
Total area (sq. mi)english area

Total area in square miles. Symbol: sq mi. Value must be entered in 'raw format', no commas or spaces. Auto-converted to display square kilometers if 'metric area' is empty.

Numberoptional
Total area (sq. km)metric area

Total area in square km. Symbol: sq km. Value must be entered in 'raw format', no commas or spaces. Auto-converted to display square miles if 'english area' is empty.

Numberoptional
Populationpopulation

Population, preferably consisting of digits only (without any commas)

Example
70000
Numbersuggested
Population total's yearpopulation year

The year for the population total (usually a census year)

Example
2000
Numberoptional
Median incomemedian income

The district's median income in dollars

Stringoptional
Disambiguationdisamb

no description

Unknownoptional
percent urbanpercent urban

no description

Example
60.4
Numberoptional
percent ruralpercent rural

no description

Example
10.1
Numberoptional
percent whitepercent white

no description

Example
63.2
Numberoptional
percent blackpercent black

no description

Example
6.9
Numberoptional
percent asianpercent asian

no description

Example
12.3
Numberoptional
percent hispanicpercent hispanic

no description

Example
25.7
Numberoptional
percent native americanpercent native american

no description

Example
1.0
Numberoptional
percent native hawaiianpercent native hawaiian

no description

Example
0.4
Numberoptional
percent more than one racepercent more than one race

no description

Numberoptional
percent other racepercent other race

no description

Numberoptional
percent blue collarpercent blue collar

no description

Numberoptional
percent white collarpercent white collar

no description

Numberoptional
percent gray collarpercent gray collar

no description

Numberoptional
percent grey collarpercent grey collar

no description

Numberoptional

Tracking category

See also