There are 50 United States in America. Each state is represented in the both the Senate and the House in Congress. Each state gets two seats in the Senate, but the number of seats varies in the House of Representatives. The above graph shows how many seats each USA state has in the House of Representatives.
California has the most seats (53), because it has the biggest population. Followed but Texas (36), Florida (27), and New York (27). In contrast, there are 7 sates who only get 1 seat because their populations are so low. The distribution of seats follows the distribution of the USA population (the more populated states gets more seats), with all states getting at least on seat in the House.
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Alabama AL, Alaska AK, Arizona AZ, Arkansas AR, California CA, Colorado CO, Connecticut CT, Delaware DE, Florida FL, Georgia GA, Hawaii HI, Idaho ID, Illinois IL, Indiana IN, Iowa IA, Kansas KS, Kentucky KY, Louisiana LA, Maine ME, Maryland MD, Massachusetts MA, Michigan MI, Minnesota MN, Mississippi MS, Missouri MO, Montana MT, Nebraska NE, Nevada NV, New Hampshire NH, New Jersey NJ, New Mexico NM, New York NY, North Carolina NC, North Dakota ND, Ohio OH, Oklahoma OK, Oregon OR, Pennsylvania PA, Rhode Island RI, South Carolina SC, South Dakota SD, Tennessee TN, Texas TX, Utah UT, Vermont VT, Virginia VA, Washington WA, West Virginia WV, Wisconsin WI, Wyoming WY
USA House Representatives graph Graph Notes:
The x-axis (horizontal part of the graph) shows the state. The y-axis (vertical part of the graph) shows the the number of seats. Every bar represents the total number of seats in the USA House of Representatives for that state, and the bars are displayed from largest to smallest. USA House of Representatives: Makes and passes federal laws. The House is one of Congress’s two chambers, the other is the U.S. Senate, and part of the federal government’s legislative branch. The number of voting representatives in the House is fixed by law at no more than 435, proportionally representing the population of the 50 USA states.
