.FiveThirtyEight explores how apportionment works—and which states are over- and underrepresented as a result.
With all 435 House seats apportioned, we see significant discrepancies in district sizes across states. Montana and Rhode Island, for instance, will each have about 215,000 fewer people per district than the national average. Delaware, by contrast, will be the most underrepresented state in the union: Its 990,837 residents will have just one representative. But it’s not just the smaller — that is, less populous — states that get a raw deal.
To be sure, perfectly equal representation in the House isn’t actually attainable — the fact that each state is guaranteed at least one seat and that districts can’t cross state lines limits what’s possible. But we could getcloser to equal representation if we expanded the size of the House beyond our current cap of 435., where we’d divide the total U.S. population by that of the smallest state .
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