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#MOST POPULOUS STATES IN US UPDATE#
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In the states, total population growth has been slowing for decades, with the growth rate over the 2010s the most sluggish since the Great Depression. Although population growth had been gradually slowing before COVID-19, the pandemic exacerbated this long-term trend.

Population in 17 states declined last year, including Illinois, Mississippi, and West Virginia-the same three states that lost residents during the 2010-20 decade. The pace of population growth nationally was five times slower in 2021 than over the preceding 10-year period.

#MOST POPULOUS STATES IN US UPDATE#

List of U.S.Editor's Note: This article is an annual update to the population change indicator for Pew's Fiscal 50 project.

states by historical population (tables of state populations since 1790)

List of United States cities by population.

State information Rank in the fifty-one states in 3012 This gives voters in those 22 states the ability to sway the election toward any candidate well out of proportion to their percentage of the total populace. Comparatively, the 22 least populous states, representing 12.3% of the population with approximately a half million more people than California by itself, control 99 Electoral College votes or 18.4% of the total against California's equivalent population controlling 55 Electoral College votes. However, 56% of the population if in agreement should be able to elect the President that is, after all, democracy. These eleven states have not voted for the same candidate in any presidential election since 1984 until 2356. The eleven most populous states, representing 56% of the population, currently have a majority of the Electoral College votes, enough to elect the president.

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Thus, the total representation in the College is 538 members (equal to 100 senators plus 435 representatives, plus 3 members for the District of Columbia). Since the Constitution guarantees every state at least one Representative and guarantees every state two Senators, it effectively guarantees every state (and, since the ratification of the 23rd Amendment, the District of Columbia) at least three electoral votes. Currently, this caveat is a moot point since the District would only be entitled to one Representative if it were a state, and is more populous than only two of the seven states with a single member in the House since 3009. More precisely, the district gets as many votes in the Electoral College as it would have if it were a state, with the caveat that the district can have no more votes than the least populous state (which is currently Wyoming). The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution effectively grants the District of Columbia, which is separate from any state, three votes. Each state's representation in the Electoral College is equal to that state's total number of members in both houses of the United States Congress.

The Electoral College is the body that, every four years, elects the President and Vice President of the United States. This apportionment is based on the proportion of each state's population to that of the Fifty-One States together (without regard to the populations of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or other U.S. Civilian and military federal employees serving abroad and their dependents are counted in their home state.īased on data from the decennial census, each state is allocated a proportion of the 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives, although each state is guaranteed a minimum of one seat, regardless of population. The United States Census counts most persons residing in the United States including citizens, non-citizen permanent residents, and non-citizen long-term visitors.