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Texas to gain 2 congressional seats, others lose 1 seat, Census shows
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Census count reallocates 7 House seats that could affect 2022 midterm
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Texas will gain two more congressional seats and seven states will each lose a seat as a result of population shifts recorded in the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau said Monday in the release of its first round of data from the survey taken last year.
In total, seven seats shifted affecting 13 states. Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon each gained one seat in addition to Texas. California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia each lost one seat.
The shift could affect the 2022 midterm elections and whether Democrats can hold onto control of the House, where they hold a narrow majority. It s also part of a broader shift to the South and West of the U.S., with 84 seats shifting toward those states since 1940.
“You’re seeing that people are fleeing the Northeast and they’re now leaving California and they’re going to low-tax red states,” said Adam Kincaid, executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, an outside group that will coordinate GOP efforts to draw favorable maps.
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But the real consequences will reveal themselves in the coming months, when the Census Bureau gives states block-level population data that allows them to draw new district boundaries, even in states that did not gain or lose seats.
Though Democrats control the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans will have an edge when new maps are crafted. Republicans hold complete control of the redistricting process in 19 states that will send a combined 184 members to Congress. Democrats own complete control of the process in just eight states that send 75 members to Congress.
Census count reallocates 7 House seats that could affect 2022 midterm
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