Politics Magazine takes an early look on where the winners and losers will be after the census is completed:
According to an unofficial short-term calculation, only Texas, adding four seats, and Arizona, adding two, will gain more than one seat. Florida, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon, South Carolina and Utah will all increase the size of their federal delegations by one district.
Ohio, likely to relinquish two seats, appears to be the only state that will lose more than one. Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will all drop one.
What is interesting is that, with the expection of Oregon, all of the states that stand to gain seats are generally Republican-leaning whereas, excluding Louisiana, all the states that stand to lose seats are heavily Democratic. How that would impact the balance-of-power or, just as importantly, the Electoral College map in 2016 and beyond, remains to be seen.
H/T: Jason Pye
It’s sort of a local New England joke that Massachusetts has been bleeding population for years now. The politics are so bad that nobody can stand to live there.