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The U.S. Congress consists of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each state elects two senators, while seats in the House of Representatives are apportioned by state according to population, with each state receiving a minimum of one representative. After each decennial census, the House of Representatives used to increase in size, but in the 1910s overall membership was capped at 435 (it expanded temporarily to 437 after Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states in 1959). Now, after each census, legislative seats are reapportioned, with some states increasing their number of representatives while other states may lose seats. After the 2020 census, six states gained seats in the House: Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon each gained one, and Texas gained two. California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia each lost one seat.
The number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives by state is provided in the table.
U.S. congressional apportionment
state
representatives
Alabama
7
Alaska
1
Arizona
9
Arkansas
4
California
52
Colorado
8
Connecticut
5
Delaware
1
Florida
28
Georgia
14
Hawaii
2
Idaho
2
Illinois
17
Indiana
9
Iowa
4
Kansas
4
Kentucky
6
Louisiana
6
Maine
2
Maryland
8
Massachusetts
9
Michigan
13
Minnesota
8
Mississippi
4
Missouri
8
Montana
2
Nebraska
3
Nevada
4
New Hampshire
2
New Jersey
12
New Mexico
3
New York
26
North Carolina
14
North Dakota
1
Ohio
15
Oklahoma
5
Oregon
6
Pennsylvania
17
Rhode Island
2
South Carolina
7
South Dakota
1
Tennessee
9
Texas
38
Utah
4
Vermont
1
Virginia
11
Washington
10
West Virginia
2
Wisconsin
8
Wyoming
1
Total
435
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