Reapportionment math is more complicated than you think

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Today, we’ll find out which states will gain seats in the U.S. House (and thus the Electoral College), and which will lose seats. Roughly, if you gained population at a rate significantly greater than the whole country, you gain seats. If you lost population or gained at a rate significantly below the national gain, you lose seats.

But just how they parcel out the seats involves math much more complicated than you’d expect.

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