Q. What is a Senatorial district?
A. A portion of a county, a whole county, or several counties
combined for the purpose of electing a Senator; the amount of
territory depending upon population.
Q. What is a Congressional district?
A. A portion of a county, a whole county, or several counties
combined for the purpose of electing a "Representative in
Congress;" the amount of territory depending upon population.
Q. What is a Judicial district?
A. One county (as in the case of New York), or several counties
united for the purpose of electing Supreme Court Judges.
Q. Name the civil divisions in regular order and tell what a
combination of each forms?
A. Road and school districts form towns; towns when united form
counties; counties when united form a State; and also in many
instances, Senatorial, Congressional and Judicial districts.
States when united form a Union.
Q. How many States are there?
A. Thirty-eight.
Q. How many counties in New York State?
A. Sixty.
Q. How many towns in New York State?
A. Nine hundred and forty; the number is changing from year to
year; the exact number can be found by consulting the almanacs
that give the election returns.
Q. How many cities in the State of New York?
A. Twenty.
Q. How many School Commissioner districts in New York State?
A One hundred and twelve.
Q. How many Assembly districts?
A.
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