It all depends on the change in the population across all Districts. The total sum of those in the U.S. is divided by 435, excluding territories, and distributed as best as possible amongst the states. There are always issues due to states like Wyoming, which only has 1 Representative, so their population could decrease with no ramifications. Then there's New York, which recently had a population decline and lost a Representative. However, the simple answer is that when population increases/decreases comparative to other states, then their representation increases/decreases.
The Senate is the house of Congress that is based on equal representation. The House of Representatives is numbered based on the population of the state but the Senate has equal representation for even states with a lower population.
apportioned population of the states
The number of Senate seats a state has is based on the state's population size and historical representation agreements. Each state is guaranteed two Senate seats regardless of population size to ensure equal representation among states. While California has a high population size, its Senate representation remains fixed at two seats, while smaller states like Delaware have greater Senate representation per capita due to the equal representation framework.
With regard to representation in the House of Representatives, states are represented according to their populations. Representation in the Senate is based on 2 delegates per state, regardless of population.
The Representation Compromise gave both large states and small states the type of representation they asked for. This was done by changing the representation standards in the houses of Congress. Large states had wanted representation based on population. This standard was accepted in the House of Representatives, which allowed the number of representatives to be determined by state population. Smaller states wanted equal representation, despite population size. This was accepted by the Senate, in which all states have the same number of representatives.
Inequal in representation by population, but perfect in terms of equal representation by State. The big states are equal to the smaller sized states. Bicameral legislatures seem to balance things out quite well.
It proposed a bicameral legislative branch. The upper house, the senate, would have two representatives from each state. This satisfied the small states' plea for equal representation in Congress. The lower house, The House of Representatives, would please the large states in the way that state representation in the House was based off population. Larger states had more representation in the House, but representation was equal in the senate.
The physical size of states, small or large, was irrelevant. The size of their populations, however, determined their representation in the lower house of Congress. So states with smaller populations are better represented in the Senate, where each state is represented equally by two Senators.
There are two parts of Congress: the Senate and the House of Representatives. Representation in the Senate is independent of population; therefore all states get the same amount of representation (2 Senators per state). Representation in the House of Representatives is dependent on population, which means that there is a different amount of representatives representing each state.
The Senate.
Small states wanted representation in Congress to be equal for all states regardless of their size or population, because they felt each state was an equal partner in the new nation and feared that they would be outvoted in Congress by larger states if representation were based on population alone. The legislature would consist of two house : a House of Representatives, with membership based based on state population, and a Senate, with each state receiving two members. This agreement became known as the Connecticut Compromise.
The bicameral Congress of the United States is a compromise between large and small states. Large states have the advantage in the House because each state's representation is roughly proportional to its population, and small states have the advantage in the Senate because every state has the same representation no matter how large or small it is.