Lumeria
Lumeria t1_ivodqnq wrote
Reply to comment by QueueWho in If we flip the State House, I will have hope for this state for the first time ever. by DoctorSteve
You see, the problem with that is if we did that we’d theoretically have nearly 3000 representatives for closest-to-proportional seat distribution. Cameron County has 4500 residents, making it the smallest county, and we have 13 million people, for reference.
It’s honestly be better to either eliminate the Senate and simply add those seats into the house pool (so 253 seats total) or eliminate the Senate and adhere to the Cube Root Rule (235 seats).
Lumeria t1_ivog5c4 wrote
Reply to comment by QueueWho in If we flip the State House, I will have hope for this state for the first time ever. by DoctorSteve
After Cameron, there’s Sullivan and Forest Counties that both under 10k population as well (6000 and 7000-ish respectively). If I’d had to guess, they probably roll some of their county operations in with their neighbors (or, at least, I know some counties do that).
As a fun fact, out of 67 counties, 27~ of them are smaller than the average state house seat currently.