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2030 Apportionment Forecast - 2023

2030 Apportionment Forecast - 2023

As of December 2023.

Congressional representation is reapportioned every decade following the completion of the decennial census. The Census Bureau's most recent Population and Housing Unit Estimates were released...

2030 Apportionment Forecast - 2022

2030 Apportionment Forecast - 2022

As of December 2022.

Congressional representation is reapportioned every decade following the completion of the decennial census. Each year the Census Bureau produces the Population and Housing Unit Estimates Program; ...

The Restoring Equal and Accountable Legislators in the House Act

Earl Blumenauer (D - Portland) introduced the REAL House Act, to expand the House of Representatives to 585 & create a mechanism to increase the house following each apportionment.

The Restoring Equal and Accountable Legislators in the House Act , REAL House Act , would remove the cap of 435 total seats in the US House of Representatives in order to reduce the average congre...

Shifting Seats

How population shifts since 1960 impacted Congressional Apportionment

2020 Census Count Errors & Congressional Apportionment

2020 Census Count Errors & Congressional Apportionment

Census Report On May 19, 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau released the 2020 Census estimated overcount and undercount rates by State derived from the 2020 Post-Enumeration Survey (PES) . The PES ...

Modern Congressional Reapportionment (1960 – 2020)

Reapportionment changes from 1960-2020 Over the past seven reapportionments, 66 seats shifted from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West. The Losers Northeast The Northeast regi...

2020 Congressional Apportionment - Total Citizen Population

2020 Congressional Apportionment - Total Citizen Population

Citizen Population from the 2019 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates

Total Non-Citizen Population The ACS 5-year Estimates from 2015-2019 peg the total resident population of the United States at 324,697,795 including 302,533,815 citizens (93.2% of the total po...

2020 Apportionment

2020 Apportionment

The U.S. Census Bureau announced the total population counts for the 2020 Census on April 26, 2021. Those counts are used to reapportion Congressional representation among the fifty states. All sta...

2020 Reapportionment Forecast - Total Population

Congressional representation is reapportioned every decade following the completion of the decennial census. Most reapportionment estimates released in December 2020 agreed ( EDS & PoliData )...

2020 Bubble Seat Projections

The 12 seats on the 2020 reapportionment bubble.

If there are any surprises with the 2020 reapportionment (not impossible given the uncertainty surrounding the Census this year) look no further than these twelve “Bubble Seats.” What Are Bu...

Apportioning Congressional Representation in the United States

How the Census Apportions Seats The method of reapportionment has changed four times in the 229 years following its inception, but the data for it has always come from a decennial national censu...

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