Illinois loses congressional seat because of latest Census population
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It’s become a decennial tradition in the state, which has forfeited 10 U.S. House seats in the last nine censuses, leaving it with 17.
The census reported that Illinois’ population in 2020 was 12,822,739, a drop of 0.32% from a decade earlier. The number reported was the one the census uses for determining congressional apportionment, which includes 10,231 Illinoisans living overseas.
The decrease will likely spell a loss of federal funding while at the same time strengthening Democrats’ political grip on the state. Most people who build a statistical model on how much federal money does a state get will find that more seats means more money, said Brian Gaines, political scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Census figures cost Illinois a congressional seat Associated press, March 2020
Updated 4/26/2021 5:44 PM
SPRINGFIELD Illinois will lose a seat in Congress because of stagnating population, continuing a long slide that has cost it political influence nationally, according to the 2020 census results announced Monday.
It s become a decennial tradition in the state, which has forfeited 10 U.S. House seats in the last nine censuses, leaving it with 17.
The census reported that Illinois population in 2020 was 12,822,739, a drop of 0.32% from a decade earlier. The number reported was the one the census uses for determining congressional apportionment, which includes 10,231 Illinoisans living overseas.
The decrease will likely spell a loss of federal funding while at the same time strengthening Democrats political grip on the state.
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Census population figures cost Illinois a congressional seat
JOHN O CONNOR, AP Political Writer
April 26, 2021
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) Illinois will lose a seat in Congress because of stagnating population, continuing a long slide that has cost it political influence nationally, according to the 2020 Census results announced Monday.
It’s become a decennial tradition in the state, which has forfeited 10 U.S. House seats in the last nine censuses, leaving it with 17.
The census reported that Illinois population in 2020 was 12,822,739, a drop of 0.32% from a decade earlier. The number reported was the one the census uses for determining congressional apportionment, which includes 10,231 Illinoisans living overseas.
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