Six States To Gain House Seats As Population Growth Slows

Six states will see their congressional delegations grow in the next Congress, according to the first results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial survey of America’s population, in what the Bureau’s director said was the smallest shift in any decade in almost a century.

Texas is set to add two U.S. House seats to its delegation after a decade in which the state added more than 4 million new residents.

Colorado, North Carolina, Florida and Oregon will all add one more seat. Montana will add a second district, 30 years after it lost that second seat in a previous round of apportionment.

States losing seats are almost all in the Rust Belt. Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia continued to bleed seats as residents move to other states. West Virginia’s population dropped by a larger share than any other state over the last decade, shrinking by 3.2 percentage points.

And for the first time since it joined the Union, California’s congressional delegation will shrink by one seat.

Read more at The Hill.

{Matzav.com}