New York on Pace to Lose 1 Congressional Seat in 2022

 

ALBANY — It's likely that New York will lose one of its 27 congressional seats in the 2022 reapportionment because its small growth in population hasn't kept pace with the nation as a whole.

According to Census Bureau estimates released Wednesday, New York’s population was 19.85 million as of July 1. That’s up by 471,297 from the last decennial census conducted in 2010.

But the gain — 2.4 percent — is less than the nation's growth of 5.5 percent.

POLITICO looked at the shifts of population in each state from 2010 through 2017, then assumed that they will continue unchanged for another three years. New York is on pace to top 20 million residents by the next reapportionment, but if trends continue as they have so far this decade, its share of the country’s population will dip from 6.29 percent to 6.03 percent. 

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Source: Politico (via The Empire Report)