Report: Fla. adds 2 seats, N.Y. loses

[kpete]

Source: Politico

A new estimate of House reapportionment gains and losses resulting from this year’s Census reveals a larger-than-expected impact on Florida and New York. According to Washington-based Election Data Services, which reviewed new Census data from a private-sector demographic firm, Florida would gain two House seats and New York would lose two seats.

They would join two other states that already were projected to have multiple-seat changes. Based on the tentative Census data, Texas is expected to gain four House seats and Ohio likely will lose two seats.

According to the EDS estimate, six other states each would gain one seat: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington. Eight states would each lose one seat: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

In addition to the Florida and New York changes, the other major switch in the projected reapportionment is that Missouri will lose a House seat instead of Minnesota, according to EDS President Kimball Brace. He released the study for a redistricting seminar of the National Conference of State Legislature in Providence, Rhode Island, this weekend.




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[napi21]

1. I can only hope this means that a ot of Dems have moved to those

Pub states & help change them in the right direction.

[thunder rising]

2. FL has had a lot of counties shrink (Atlantic side) ... so, I'd wait for the census

[JerseygirlCT]

3. Oh great

Please tell me that's in the sane part of the state!

[Lochloosa]

5. Show me one....*S*

[DFLforever]

4. Too bad MN won't lose a seat- the one lost would likely

have been Michelle Bachmann's.

[wellstone dem]

6. Unless Tarryl Clark beats Michele, then it's a good thing to keep the seat

www.tarrylclark.com

donate! please!

[Scruffy1]

10. One way or another she'll be gone in 2012

Redistricting will change this gerrymandered district.

[DFLforever]

11. I have donated to Tarryl, More than to any other candidate

running this year.

[HockeyMom]

7. My daughter left Florida last year (after only 4 months)

and moved back to NY. I am hoping to move back to NY at the end of this year. Three years in this place is ENOUGH for me.

[The Northerner]

8. I have an aunt who lives in FL and has also had enough of the place

She said that although Maryland has plenty of problems and cold weather, there are at least plenty of good liberals there.

[unblock]

9. at some point, texas will flip to the dems. that will be a watershed moment in federal politics

texas has been gradually becoming less and less solidly red, and it will soon be winnable. not in 2012, maybe not in 2016, but eventually it will be seriously in play and eventually it will flip.

even at the point where republicans need to spend time and money seriously in texas to keep it, that will be a big factor in presidential campaign strategy.

we have a few more presidential cycles with republicans as serious contenders, but the long-term demographics strongly favor democrats.