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Census finds 4 million new Texans, enough for 2 extra U.S. House seats, though we expected more Todd J. Gillman, The Dallas Morning News Updated at 4:50 p.m. with new information throughout. WASHINGTON — Texas gained a modest two congressional seats in the 2020 Census, the Census Bureau announced Monday, making it the big winner nationwide but dashing expectations that torrid growth in the last decade would yield at least three more seats. Texas’ official population now stands at 29,145,505, up 15.9% since the last census. That’s 3,999,944 new Texans — more people than...

Perhaps the three biggest surprises in Monday’s census reapportionment announcement were heavily Hispanic states missing out on adding seats — and all are controlled by Republicans. But it’s not quite so simple.

PHOENIX -- Arizona is not going to get more representation in Washington. And one political demographer said it may be because some Hispanics chose not to respond to the decennial survey. The Census Bureau announced Monday that Arizona had not gained enough population in the past decade, at least not in the official count, to merit another congressional seat. That keeps it at nine members of the U.S. House. This is the first time since the 1960 census that Arizona has not picked up a seat. According to the announced tally, Arizona added 746,223 new residents between April 1, 2010 and the same...

Detroit Free Press For the fifth consecutive Census, Michigan will lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as the Midwest and Northeast continued to see modest population gains outstripped by those in the South and West.  While it's not yet known what Michigan's 13 congressional districts will look like, the announcement by Census officials Monday will lessen at least somewhat the state's standing in the U.S. House and means that at least two current members of Congress will be put into one district. It also means Michigan will lose a vote in the Electoral College, which decides the...

The Census is expected to release apportionment data on Monday and Michigan is among the states expected to lose at least one seat.