New York was 89 people away from not losing a congressional seat
It once held 45 House seats, but New York will now drop to just 26
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New York was one of seven states that the U.S. Census Bureau announced on Monday would lose a seat in the House of Representatives through the once-in-a-decade congressional apportionment from the 2020 Census.
But according to the Census Bureau, the Empire State would not have lost a House seat if it had counted just 89 more people.
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Due to the decrease in the state’s population over the past decade, New York’s delegation in the House will edge down from 27 to 26 seats, a sign of diminishing clout on the federal level for a state that held 45 House seats from 1933-1953 and retained the largest state delegation in the chamber until 1973.
The latest 2020 Census figures continue a decades old trend of a net shift of population – and House seats – from the Northeast and the Midwest to the South and West.
Using the latest Census numbers as ammunition against embattled three-term Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York GOP Chair Nick Langworthy charged that the "news that New York will lose another congressional seat is a sad but unsurprising commentary on Andrew Cuomo’s failed leadership."
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"We have no future as a state when our federal representation continues to shrink, our jobs continue to be destroyed and our residents continue to flee to other states," he argued. "We are a state that is failing and in desperate need of a life-saving treatment — a Republican governor who will change course and reverse New York’s decline."
Fox News’ Mike Emanuel contributed to this report.