The next, or 51st seat, went to the State with the highest priority value and thus became that State's second seat. This continued until all 435 seats had been assigned to a state. This is how it is done. Actual calculation of the apportionment is tedious but relatively simple. Then one sorts the priority numbers in descending order, and draws a line at the 435th seat.
States receive as many seats as they have priority numbers above the line.
To evaluate the claim that the correction of the computer error in the adjusted data would have shifted a seat in Congress, one must recalculate the priority numbers derived from the apportionment formula using the adjusted and corrected adjusted data. Table 2 lists the July 1991 adjusted state totals plus the overseas population from Table A . Contrary to the allegation, both sets of data shift seats to California and Arizona at the expense of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The apportionment of the House using the CAPE data would have moved one seat from Wisconsin to California. The changes in the CAPE adjusted census results derived from revision of the post strata used to calculate the adjusted population counts.