MONTGOMERY – Alabama could lose one of its seven seats in Congress after the 2030 Census, according to State Rep. Chris Pringle (R-Mobile).
Pringle, co-chair of the state's reapportionment committee, said at a Senate Education Policy committee meeting on Wednesday, "We're going to probably lose a congressional seat in the next Census I think."
"It's going to be interesting to see how we deal with it," he added.
Pringle told 1819 News on Wednesday that losing a congressional seat is "always a possibility given the growth in other states."
"Plus the apportionment formula for the 385 available seats is very complicated," Pringle said. "We barely kept 7 this time."
Apportionment is the process of dividing the 435 seats in the House of Representatives among the 50 states. The Census Bureau conducts the Census every 10 years. The results are used to calculate the number of House memberships to which each state is entitled.
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