He took the risk of running in a district drawn specifically to maximize Hispanic voting strength.

The potential voting strength of the university students is considerable.

Only 24 hours earlier conference delegates voted to reduce the unions' voting strength.

Others say the plan fails to enhance their ethnic group's voting strength.

In the past, the opposite tactic was often used to dilute the voting strength of certain groups.

Blacks argued that this plan illegally limits their voting strength to a single district.

He said in addition that the proposed map would "appear to minimize Hispanic voting strength."

The final challenge to immigrant voting strength also comes from within.

Only the Catholic Center retained its voting strength to the end.

On one side are many of the Christian conservatives who have supplied the party with much of its energy and voting strength in recent years.