The Race for Power in the US House, 1910–2026 🇺🇸
The Race for Power in the US House, 1910–2026: seats in the US House, 1910–2026.
Top 5 in 2026: California 52, Texas 38, Florida 28, New York 26, Illinois 17
Top 5 in 1910: New York 43, Pennsylvania 36, Illinois 27, Ohio 22, Texas 18
What the number means: 52 seats = 52 of the 435 members of the House come from that state, so it has 52 votes there.
More people → more seats → more say in Congress and more electoral votes for president.
House seats = the number of seats a state has in the US House of Representatives. After every census (every 10 years) the 435 seats are divided between the 50 states by population; every state gets at least one. Seats from a census are used from the elections two years later.
Terms used:
- House: the US House of Representatives, 435 members, elected every 2 years
- census: the count of all people living in the USA, every 10 years
Data: US Census Bureau, Historical Apportionment Data 1910-2020 (census.gov). 2026 = the seats in force now, from the 2020 census.
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