Census count leaves
New York 89 people short
New York will lose one Congressional seat and one vote in the electoral college, as a result of population shifts counted in the 2020 United States Census, according to census data released Monday, April 26.
New York's loss will decrease its representation to 26 from 27. It is unknown at this time how or when the state will redistrict for the 2022 elections, but in 2014 state voters passed a ballot to allow redistricting to be done by a 10-member bipartisan commission.
The loss of representation comes with a horrifying statistic: if 89 more New Yorkers had responded or been counted, the state would have kept its current representation and Minnesota would have lost a representative and EC vote instead. The margin of change was the lowest in the history of the Census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The next smallest margin of change was in 1970 when Oregon needed 231 more people to gain a seat.
