Minnesota may lose a congressional seat despite a conservatively estimated population growth of 216,000 people since the last US Census in 2010! Why is this? It’s because that population growth is primarily from births and international migrations, however we have not gained population from other states.
In 1929, the US House of Representatives passed our country’s last Apportionment Act, setting the number of House Reps at 435, and we use census data to portion those Representatives throughout the United States, with a minimum of one per state.
Since we are in competition with other states for representation, we need to make sure we get an accurate count! Remember you do not need to be native born or a naturalized United States citizen to count, the only requirement is you live here!
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