section_path: Redistricting
section_name: Redistricting
paragraph_text: Redistricting
  
  In the Philippines, Congress has the power to create new congressional districts. Congress can either redistrict the entire country within three years after each Philippine census, or create new districts from existing ones piecemeal, although Congress has never redistricted the entire country wholesale since the approval of the 1987 constitution. Congress usually creates a new district once a place reaches the minimum 250,000 population mandated by the constitution.
  
  New districts can also be created by creating new provinces and cities; in this case, it also must be approved by the people in a plebiscite in the affected places.