As the population grows...

[minionofmidas]

I'm not going to do the detailed calculation, but every state would have at least 2 Representatives, and DC would have 4 electors, so there would be 1103 electoral votes.

I've found a calculator for it on the net, tho' I had to manually enter the 2010 census populations (well, copy-and-paste them state-by-state which was only minimally quicker). It appears to have a bug...ooh feature... though, capping state's seat tallies at 60, so really this is for 759 seats outside of California, Texas, New York and Florida, or... whatever? 1100-odd? nationally.

Alabama 17, Alaska 3, Arizona 23, Arkansas 11, California 60*, Colorado 18, Connecticut 13, Delaware 3, Florida 60*, Georgia 35, Hawaii 5, Idaho 6, Illinois 47, Indiana 24, Iowa 11, Kansas 10, Kentucky 16, Louisiana 17, Maine 5, Maryland 21, Massachusetts 24, Michigan 36, Minnesota 19, Mississippi 11, Missouri 22, Montana 4, Nebraska 7, Nevada 10, New Hampshire 5, New Jersey 32, New Mexico 8, New York 60*, North Carolina 35, North Dakota 3, Ohio 42, Oklahoma 14, Oregon 14, Pennsylvania 46, Rhode Island 4, South Carolina 17, South Dakota 3, Tennessee 23, Texas 60*, Utah 10, Vermont 2, Virginia 29, Washington 24, West Virginia 7, Wisconsin 21, Wyoming 2.



*is this a bug? Is that

[minionofmidas]

I would imagine that they probably used the census departments calculations for seats, which only go up to 60 seats per state.

Seeing as I had to enter the populations, that makes little sense.
Maybe both sites use the same calculator program or something.

[minionofmidas]

They probably programmed it assuming people would want a 435 seat Congress and thus more than 60 seats per State would not be wanted.   They probably are generating the preference values for seats 2-60 for each State and then sorting that list.

Yeah. The ability to change the seat total may well have been added as an afterthought.