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What impact does reapportionment of congressional seats have on a states number of electoral votes?
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Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the House of Representatives. Every 10 years the U.S. Census Bureau takes a census of the population in each state. The 435 representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives is then reapportioned among the 50 states based on the population in each state. The number of electoral votes for individual states may increase or decrease each 10 years based on the results of the updated census results.
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How does reapportionment reflect the population of a given state?
The reapportionment of the United States House of Representatives gives the number of congressmen in each state. The congressional districts are based on population. So states with more congressmen have larger populations.
How many electoral votes does Maine's second congressional district have?
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 2 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine. Therefore, Maine has 4 electoral votes. Maine use the "congressional district method", selecting one elector within each congressional district by popular vote and awarding two electors by a statewide popular vote. Maine's First congressional district and Second congressional district have 1 electoral vote each. Maine's remaining 2 electoral votes are awarded on a winner-take-all basis to whichever candidate receives a majority of the popular vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate).
How do you figure out the number of people in the electoral collage for each state?
Number of congressional representatives plus 2. and the guy who asked this is a really gay guy
What is the difference reapportionment and redistricting?
Reapportionment, which happens every ten years when there is a census, is the apportioning (or proportional division) of congressional seats (435 for the U.S. Congress since 1911) among the 50 states according to their relative population. Redistricting is the re-drawing of congressional districts within each state, according to the number of seats they were apportioned, again based on the new census data. Reapportionment causes redistricting. Reapportionment is objective data (though how the Census Bureau counts population does involve some political disputes, specifically dealing with how low-income citizens are fairly counted). Redistricting is the part where all of the political battles happen.
What is the difference between Redistricting and Reapportionment?
Reapportionment, which happens every ten years when there is a census, is the apportioning (or proportional division) of congressional seats (435 for the U.S. Congress since 1911) among the 50 states according to their relative population. Redistricting is the re-drawing of congressional districts within each state, according to the number of seats they were apportioned, again based on the new census data. Reapportionment causes redistricting. Reapportionment is objective data (though how the Census Bureau counts population does involve some political disputes, specifically dealing with how low-income citizens are fairly counted). Redistricting is the part where all of the political battles happen.
Why does the number of electoral votes not match the number of congressional members?
Besides the Congressional representatives each state has two senators and so get two votes in addition to the number of its congressman. Since every state has at least one congressman , it follows that every state gets at least three electoral votes, as does DC.The total is electoral votes is thus 435 for Congress plus 100 for the Senate plus 3 for Dc = 538.
How is it determined how many electors each state have?
every 500,000 people is one goes by number of Congressional members a state has to go to Electoral College
What is the Total Number of Electors in Illinois Electoral College?
The number of electoral votes for each state is equal to the sum of its number of Senators and its number of Representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Based on the 2010 Census, there are 9 members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Therefore, Massachusetts has 11 electoral votes.
What can happen to a state's electoral votes after each census?
The number of electoral votes is adjusted after each census to reflect changes in state populations. States that have gained more population that the average can be given more votes and and states that have lost population or failed to gain as much as most states can lose votes. The number of electoral votes is tied to the number of congressional districts .
Are a state's electoral votes based on a state's congressional representation?
Yes. Each state has electoral votes equal to the total of the 2 representative the state has in the U.S. Senate plus the number of representative the state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. The District of Columbia gets 3 electoral votes. Therefore, the total number of electoral votes is 538 - 100 (senators) + 435 (representatives) +3 (for DC).
Every state has at least 2 electoral votes?
Actually, every state has at least 3 electoral votes. That is because the number of electoral votes that each state gets is the same as the number of congressional representatives that it has. Since every state has 2 senators, and every state has at least 1 representative, then every state has at least 3 congressional representatives, and thus has at least 3 electoral votes.
How often does congressional reapportionment occur in the US?
Reapportionment occurs every 10 years, following the constitutionally-mandated US census. The last census was in 2000. Reapportionment is done on a state-by-state basis; most states redrew their maps in 2001, while Georgia and Texas (famously) redrew their maps twice, in 2001 and again in 2003 after control of the legislature had switched from the Democrats to the Republicans. The next reapportionment will be after the 2010 census; for most states this means in 2011.
