Does enumerating undocumented residents in the US census affect congressional apportionment?

ABSTRACT: In recent years, American political figures, media pundits, and others have argued that undocumented residents in the United States should not be included in census data used for congressional apportionment. They argue that including them unfairly benefits some states-especially politically Democratic-leaning (or "blue") states, according to most arguments-at the expense of others. Some people have speculated that many more House seats and Electoral College votes would have been apportioned to politically Republican-leaning (or "red") states and that many fewer would have been apportioned to politically "blue" states if undocumented residents were excluded from apportionment data. The only systematic empirical examinations of this question occurred prior to the 2020 census and projected-mo

SUBMITTER: Warren JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11811896 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature