The actual number of seats in the house is fixed. The only number that changes is the number of Republicans or Democrats that win them come election time. More seats means a bigger majority for your party.
Congress decides the number of representatives the House of Representatives is to have. Every ten years a census is taken to establish the population of the country, then using that date, Congress apportions the number of Representatives each state will have. Congress also fixes the total number of members of the House. It is possible that some states could lose representatives and some states could acquire those depending on shifts in population if Congress does not increase the total number of members.
Many people think the answer is the state's population. That's close but not completely correct. We know it's wrong because of all the states that increased their population from 2000 to 2010 and yet lost House seats in the 2011 reallocation. To state it correctly, the number of U. S. Representatives per state is based on the ratio of each states population to the population of all of the states, with a minimum of one Representative per state. In other words, it's not the state's population but the state's relative population that determines the number of House seats they get. For example, about 12% of the population of the 50 states lives in California. That's why California controls about 12% of the seats in the House of Representatives (53 of them).
Population as reported in the US Census determines apportionment
The population of the state determines the number of Representatives.
Representatives are decided by state's population, so the number of representatives differs from state to state.
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According to the Constitution there should be one representative for every 30,000 people in a state. This determines how many representatives are sent for each state.
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Apportionment
Population determines the amount of representatives for a state in the House of Representatives
Apportionment
The population determines the number of representatives. A census is done every 10 years to determine the size of the population. Then, the number of representatives either goes up or down depending on the result.
The population of the state determines the number of Representatives.
determining the number of seats each state is entitled to in the U.S. House of Representatives
The state's delegation to the House of Representatives is determined by its population size. Each state is entitled to a certain number of seats in the House, which is based on the population count from the census conducted every ten years. The apportionment process allocates the seats among the states, with smaller states having at least one representative and larger states having more representatives.
the verb is to "apportion." The process is known as "apportionment."
A state's population determines the number of members in the House of Representatives.