Utah’s increasing population has led to some growing pains, including a housing shortage, but it may also mean a little more 'clout' in Congress.
Utah’s increasing population has led to some growing pains, including a housing shortage, but may lead to more power in Washington, D.C.
“But of course that might happen in other states as well,” Biele said. “So it’s not like Utah’s going to suddenly become an important state.” It also predicts California, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania will lose between one and four seats, with California among the states to lose the most seats., based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Arizona, Florida and Texas are also major destinations for people moving out of California.
The remaining counties with growth will add a total of 223,915 people, with most of that population gain coming in Cache, Davis, Iron, Tooele, Washington and Weber counties. Yet there’s no guarantee how that voice will sway, he said, because new congressional boundaries would depend on who controls the redistricting process. If the Legislature drives the process, Coleman said, lawmakers could draw five Republican seats., Coleman drew five districts that all included part of Salt Lake County. Three stretched from the Greater Salt Lake area to Utah’s borders.
The Republican supermajority in the Legislature rewrote the law and ignored those maps, instead splitting Salt Lake County into four different congressional districts.
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