United States congressional apportionment | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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United States congressional apportionment


00:00:57 1 Constitutional context
00:02:30 2 Reapportionment
00:04:09 3 Number of members
00:04:52 3.1 Controversy and history
00:07:35 3.2 Membership cap
00:09:34 3.2.1 Clemons v. Department of Commerce
00:10:23 3.3 Proposed expansion
00:13:27 4 Apportionment methods
00:15:15 4.1 The method of equal proportions
00:19:14 5 Past apportionments
00:19:35 6 Changes following the 2010 census
00:19:59 7 Past increases
00:20:13 7.1 1789–1800
00:20:23 7.2 1801–1850
00:20:33 7.3 1851–1900
00:20:43 7.4 1901–1950
00:20:54 7.5 1951–2000
00:21:03 7.6 2001–present
00:21:12 8 See also
00:21:48 9 Notes



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United States congressional apportionment is the process by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states according to the most recent decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution. Each state is apportioned a number of seats which approximately corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of the 50 states. However, every state is constitutionally guaranteed at least one seat.
The number of voting seats in the House of Representatives has since 1913 been 435, capped at that number by the Reapportionment Act of 1929—except for a temporary (1959–1962) increase to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union.The size of a state's total congressional delegation also determines the size of its representation in the U.S. Electoral College, which also affects the U.S. presidential election process.