Commentary The results of the 2020 census are in, and California is going to lose a congressional seat. The state will only be sending 52 members to the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2022 elections, down from the 53 it sent following the 2020 elections. For the first time since it gained statehood, California is losing an electoral vote and member in congress because this is the first time California has grown more slowly than the rest of the country. Electoral votes are the sum of senators and members in the House of Representatives the state sends to congress. Every state has two senators. Reapportionment, or apportioning the fixed number of 435 representatives every 10 years based on the U.S. census results, follows a mathematical formula which first allocates at least one representative to each state and then apportions each subsequent representative based on equal representation. Following this formula, …