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Line 2: {{use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} [[File:2020 census reapportionment.svg|upright=1.6|thumb|[[United States congressional apportionment|Change in apportionment of congressional districts]], starting in 2023, as a result of the [[2020 United States census]]]] [[File:2020 census reapportionment.svg|upright=1.6|thumb|[[United States congressional apportionment|Change in apportionment of congressional districts]], starting in 2023, as a resueresentatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the [[2020 United States census]].<ref name=118thCongress>{{cite web |date=April 26, 2021 |title=2020 Census Apportionment Results Delivered to the President |url=https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/2020-census-apportionment-results.html |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=October 3, 2017 |publisher=US Census Bureau}}</ref> The number of voting seats has applied since 1913, excluding a temporary increase to 437 after the admissions of [[Alaska]] and [[Hawaii]]. The total number of state members is capped by the [[Reapportionment Act of 1929]].<ref name="USPL 62-5">[[Public Law 62-5]] of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number.</ref> In addition, each of the five inhabited [[Insular area|U.S. territories]] and the [[federal district]] of [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D. C.]], sends a [[Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives|non-voting delegate]] to the House of Representatives.▼ [[File:2010 census reapportionment.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[United States congressional apportionment|Change in apportionment of congressional districts]], starting in 2013, as a result of the [[2010 United States census]]]] [[File:2000 census reapportionment.svg|thumb|upright=1.6|[[United States congressional apportionment|Change in apportionment of congressional districts]], starting in 2003, as a result of the [[2000 United States census]]]] [[File:1990 census reapportionment map.png|thumb|upright=1.6|[[United States congressional apportionment|Change in apportionment of congressional districts]], starting in 1993, as a result of the [[1990 United States census]]]] ▲[[ The [[United States Census Bureau|Bureau of the Census]] conducts a constitutionally mandated [[United States census|decennial census]] whose figures are used to determine the number of congressional districts to which each [[U.S. state|state]] is entitled, in a process called "[[United States congressional apportionment|apportionment]]". The [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections|2022 elections]] were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the [[2020 United States census]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-california-race-and-ethnicity-legislature-sacramento-eb2bfb55e5f83327ca992beb3431bff8|title=Census, term limit change means big turnover for lawmakers|first=Don|last=Thompson|date=October 12, 2022|agency=Associated Press|website=APNews.com}}</ref> | |||