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So how “mathematically equal” are our House districts? To answer that question, the table below shows the House district size for each state (i.e., the total population divided by the number of House Representatives) for the year 2000. The states are ranked by the size of their House districts (from largest to smallest).
Clearly evident is the significant inequality in the size of the districts across the country. This is because the requirement for a “strict equality of population for each congressional district” has not been applied nationally to the House, resulting in an egregious violation of the one-person-one-vote rule.
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States are ranked according to the size of their
House districts, from largest to smallest.
The smaller the district, the greater the
Constituent Significance of its citizens. |
State*
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Population
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House Districts |
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Number of Districts |
Absolute
Size |
Relative
Size |
| Montana |
905,316 |
1 |
905,316 |
1.40 |
| Delaware |
785,068 |
1 |
785,068 |
1.21 |
| South Dakota |
756,874 |
1 |
756,874 |
1.17 |
| Utah |
2,236,714 |
3 |
745,571 |
1.15 |
| Mississippi |
2,852,927 |
4 |
713,232 |
1.10 |
| Oklahoma |
3,458,819 |
5 |
691,764 |
1.07 |
| Oregon |
3,428,543 |
5 |
685,709 |
1.06 |
| Connecticut |
3,409,535 |
5 |
681,907 |
1.05 |
| Indiana |
6,090,782 |
9 |
676,754 |
1.05 |
| Kentucky |
4,049,431 |
6 |
674,905 |
1.04 |
| Kansas |
2,693,824 |
4 |
673,456 |
1.04 |
| Wisconsin |
5,371,210 |
8 |
671,401 |
1.04 |
| South Carolina |
4,025,061 |
6 |
670,844 |
1.04 |
| Arkansas |
2,679,733 |
4 |
669,933 |
1.04 |
| Nevada |
2,002,032 |
3 |
667,344 |
1.03 |
| Michigan |
9,955,829 |
15 |
663,722 |
1.03 |
| Maryland |
5,307,886 |
8 |
663,486 |
1.03 |
| Washington |
5,908,684 |
9 |
656,520 |
1.01 |
| New York |
19,004,973 |
29 |
655,344 |
1.01 |
| Illinois |
12,439,042 |
19 |
654,686 |
1.01 |
| Texas |
20,903,994 |
32 |
653,250 |
1.01 |
| Idaho |
1,297,274 |
2 |
648,637 |
1.00 |
| New Jersey |
8,424,354 |
13 |
648,027 |
1.00 |
| Pennsylvania |
12,300,670 |
19 |
647,404 |
1.00 |
| Virginia |
7,100,702 |
11 |
645,518 |
1.00 |
| North Dakota |
643,756 |
1 |
643,756 |
1.00 |
| Arizona |
5,140,683 |
8 |
642,585 |
0.99 |
| Florida |
16,028,890 |
25 |
641,156 |
0.99 |
| California |
33,930,798 |
53 |
640,204 |
0.99 |
| Louisiana |
4,480,271 |
7 |
640,039 |
0.99 |
| Maine |
1,277,731 |
2 |
638,866 |
0.99 |
| Alabama |
4,461,130 |
7 |
637,304 |
0.99 |
| Massachusetts |
6,355,568 |
10 |
635,557 |
0.98 |
| Tennessee |
5,700,037 |
9 |
633,337 |
0.98 |
| Ohio |
11,374,540 |
18 |
631,919 |
0.98 |
| Georgia |
8,206,975 |
13 |
631,306 |
0.98 |
| Alaska |
628,933 |
1 |
628,933 |
0.97 |
| Missouri |
5,606,260 |
9 |
622,918 |
0.96 |
| North Carolina |
8,067,673 |
13 |
620,590 |
0.96 |
| New Hampshire |
1,238,415 |
2 |
619,208 |
0.96 |
| Colorado |
4,311,882 |
7 |
615,983 |
0.95 |
| Minnesota |
4,925,670 |
8 |
615,709 |
0.95 |
| Vermont |
609,890 |
1 |
609,890 |
0.94 |
| Hawaii |
1,216,642 |
2 |
608,321 |
0.94 |
| New Mexico |
1,823,821 |
3 |
607,940 |
0.94 |
| West Virginia |
1,813,077 |
3 |
604,359 |
0.93 |
| Iowa |
2,931,923 |
5 |
586,385 |
0.91 |
| Nebraska |
1,715,369 |
3 |
571,790 |
0.88 |
| Rhode Island |
1,049,662 |
2 |
524,831 |
0.81 |
| Wyoming |
495,304 |
1 |
495,304 |
0.77 |
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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ...
it expects what never was and never will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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| Created: 3DEC2004 |
Last updated: 3DEC2004 |
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