New York will lose two congressional seats after 2010 Census data released today shows stagnant population growth.
The government released the results of the latest Census earlier today in Washington, and announced the re-allocation of House seats for the 2012 election.
New York’s congressional delegation will drop from 29 to 27 – the smallest representation since 1823.
Numbers show the population of the country stands at just over 308,700,000 — that’s the slowest growth over the last decade since the Great Depression.
Other states also losing seats are: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Texas will gain four congressional seats as a result of the latest Census findings.
(Source: NY1)
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Bad for New York, good for the country (given the quality of New York’s politicians).
Good for the nation because the Akupermas of the world, and die velt, get relatively less voice in national affairs.
Yonason W – on the contrary, I’m a conservative Repubican, and I’m quite delighted. Actually it would be good if New York was prospering and growing, because that would mean it had given up its “nanny state” and “tax and spend” philosophy, which isn’t likely to happen (at least as long as frei Jews are prominent in New York – and let’s admit it, it’s our secular cousins who messed up the place).
I hate to bust your bubble”akuperma”, but the seats that are being cut, are coming from the heavily conservative upstate region. Having less Congressman is never a good thing. It means that NYS will be less heard in the government.
“I hate to bust your bubble”akuperma”, but the seats that are being cut, are coming from the heavily conservative upstate region”
in the last censes NY also lost two saets and a compromise was reached between the Democratic controlled assembly and the republicen controlled state senat that one seat will be lost in a republicen district (the seat held by Ben Gilman in rockland county) and a democratic seat in upstate will be lost as well.
#4 is right; parts of upstate actually lost population while New York City continued to grow. A fair redistricting might cost the Republicans six seats in the NY Senate.
#5,
Today most of the congressional districts outside of NYC are such that either a D or an R could win. The only exception is the 28th district which is heavily gerrymandered to be a D district. It would be a candidate to be eliminated, but that would put a lot of Democrats into marginal districts that elected Republicans last election.
In most of NYC (Staten Island is an exception) there is no way that a Republican can win a congressional election no matter how the lines are drawn.