2020 Census: Minnesota keeping all 8 US House seats
The long-awaited 2020 U.S. Census results are in, and Minnesota will not lose a congressional district as was previously expected. Written By: Sarah Mearhoff | ×
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ST. PAUL Minnesota will retain all eight of its congressional districts for the next 10 years, barely snagging the final U.S. House seat in the U.S. Census Bureau s apportionment of 435 districts across the country.
The U.S. Census Bureau released its long-awaited 2020 Census results on Monday, April 26. Experts had for months predicted Minnesota would lose one of its eight districts, but the North Star state barely snagged the final congressional seat.
In fact, some political experts thought we’d lose two.
“We’ve lost two or more seats every Census since 1950,” said Dan Lamb, lecturer in Cornell’s Institute for Public Affairs. “This is a break in the trend line that’s positive for New York. We’re not losing as much clout as we have in prior cycles.”
Losing only one representative seemed to be good news for the Empire State, until we heard that the difference between losing one seat and keeping our 27 representatives came down to fewer than 100 people filling out the census last year.
Yes. If 89 more people had responded to the once-a-decade nationwide count, we would have kept our seat in the House.
Minnesota now has 5,709,752, residents, compared to 5,314,879 counted in 2010.
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A sign is seen during a promotional event for the U.S. Census in Times Square in New York City on Sept. 23, 2020. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid / file photo
ST. PAUL How close did Minnesota come to losing one of its eight seats in the U.S. House?
Eighty-nine New Yorkers.
89.
Well, technically, 89 New York residents who, in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau, don’t exist.
In other words, if New York state whose 2020 population is now officially listed as 20,215,751 had 89 more people, then Minnesota would have lost one of its seats. Instead, we kept all eight.
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The impending loss of a New York House seat was welcome news in New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo is exploring legal options to keep the state s congressional representation.
The Democrat said New York s loss of one House seat as a result of population shifts recorded by the 2020 census was not desirable, adding that the last thing we want to do is lose representation in Washington. Do I think [the census] was accurate to within 89? No, and we re looking at legal options, he said during a press conference on Tuesday, alluding to the assessment that New York would not have lost its seat had it only counted 89 more people.