California Could Lose Four Seats in Next Redistricting

“California could lose as many as four congressional seats in the 2030 apportionment,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

“A recent report from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee choes earlier forecasts of the state’s declining political clout, including from the non-partisan American Redistricting Project and from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. All three reports found the state could lose at least three seats; the Brennan Center projected four.”

“California isn’t alone. Other Democratic-leaning states like New York, Illinois and Minnesota are also expected to lose one or two seats due to population declines. Meanwhile, Republican-leaning Florida and Texas could each gain as many as four new seats.”