Updated April 26, 2021 at 3:56 PM ET Texas has gained two more votes in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade, while Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon each gained one seat, based on the first set of results from the 2020 census, released Monday. The seven states losing one vote each are California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Loading... The scramble for the last of the 435 seats for voting members in the House was remarkably close. "If New York had had 89 more people, they would have received one more seat," said Kristin Koslap during the press conference. Koslap, senior technical expert on 2020 census congressional apportionment in the Census Bureau's Population Division, said instead that last seat went to Minnesota.