The losses set up a potential fight over the makeup of congressional districts, and point to diminished power among Midwest states over a host of federal policies.
“It’s really significant as we think about the promotion of manufacturing policies, from the manufacturers that are key in all of our states in this area,” said Eric Lupher, president of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan.
The Great Lakes states which also include Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin now have 118 of 435 seats in the U.S. House, but the number will decline to 113 in 2022.
Ron Jarmin, the acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, said a net of 84 seats in Congress have shifted from the Midwest, North and Northeast to the South and the West since 1940.
Associated Press
Michigan’s slow population growth over the past decade will cost the state a U.S. House seat, continuing a decades-long trend as job-seekers and retirees have fled to other states.
The U.S. Census Bureau listed the state’s 2020 apportionment population at 10,084,442 and increase of about 1.7% over the 2010 figure and leaving Michigan with 13 congressional seats.
Apportionment population also includes overseas military and civilian government employees and their dependents. Michigan’s resident population for 2020 how many people physically live in the state was 10,077,331, according to the census.
“While expected, it is disappointing that Michigan will lose a seat in Congress,” said U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Flint. “Even though Michigan’s population is growing, it is not growing as fast as other states.”
Associated Press
Michigan’s slow population growth over the past decade will cost the state a U.S. House seat, continuing a decades-long trend as job-seekers and retirees have fled to other states.
The U.S. Census Bureau listed the state’s 2020 apportionment population at 10,084,442 and increase of about 1.7% over the 2010 figure and leaving Michigan with 13 congressional seats.
Apportionment population also includes overseas military and civilian government employees and their dependents. Michigan’s resident population for 2020 how many people physically live in the state was 10,077,331, according to the census.
“While expected, it is disappointing that Michigan will lose a seat in Congress,” said U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat from Flint. “Even though Michigan’s population is growing, it is not growing as fast as other states.”
Michigan expected to lose congressional seat when Census apportionment data gets released
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FILE - This March 19, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident. The U.S. Census Bureau has denied any attempts to systemically falsify information during the 2020 head count used to determine the allocation of congressional seats and federal spending. The Census Bureau statement was issued Monday night, Nov. 9, in response to reports by The Associated Press of census workers who said they were told by supervisors to enter fake answers on the head-count forms in order to close cases in the waning days of the census. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Steven Lett, a member of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, speaks during a League of Women Voters of the Copper Country (LWVCC) forum on the redistricting process Tuesday.
HOUGHTON One of the members of Michigan’s new nonpartisan redistricting commission explained his role during a League of Women Voters of the Copper Country presentation on the redistricting process Tuesday.
Steven Lett of Interlochen is one of 13 members of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is tasked with redrawing lines for districts in the state House of Representatives, state Senate and U.S. House. Michigan voters approved a proposal in 2018 moving redistricting from the legislature to an independent commission.