Texas to Gain Four U.S. House Seats Under Reapportionment, Analysis Shows

[Purveyor]

By Jonathan D. Salant

Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Texas congressional delegation would increase by four members for the 2012 elections while Ohio would lose two seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to an independent analysis of new Census Bureau data.

Seven other states would gain one new representative, all of them in the South and West, according to the analysis by Polidata LLC, a demographic and political research firm based in Corinth, Vermont.

Nine states, including New York and New Jersey, would each lose one seat under projections by Polidata. Except for Louisiana, the states that would shed lawmakers are all in the Northeast and Midwest, continuing a decades-long trend.

“People like to live where the jobs are, and until they get jobs in the Midwest or Northeast, that’s going to be a problem,” said Clark Bensen, chief consultant for Polidata.

States that would gain one representative, based on the Census Bureau estimates, are Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. The other states that would lose one seat are Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.

The Texas delegation in the U.S. House would grow to 36 members from 32, trailing only California’s 53-person contingent. Ohio’s representation would shrink to 16 House districts from 18. New York would have 28 representatives if it loses one seat.

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[Deep13]

1. That sucks. nt

[Jane Austin]

2. Not if the new seats are in cities.

We have good liberal Dem Congressfolk in our cities.

[Deep13]

3. Are they in cities or in suburbs?

Or do we know yet?

[stevenleser]

5. I think the state legislatures have to redistrict their own states. Which is a major problem in the

south as the Republican dominated state legislatures in the south will seek to carve up Democratic strongholds to ensure that Democratic congressional candidates cannot get elected or hold the fewest seats.

[LiberalFighter]

4. They need to get 2.4 million Texans to go on vacation during the Census.

[martymar64]

6. An interesting development for MN

If they lose a representative, the MN state legislature could redraw the districts and cause Michelle Bachmann's district to no longer exist.

Oh, the possibilities!