The change in congressional seats according to 2020 Census data

In the last 10 years, population growth slowed to its second slowest rate in the country's history, surpassed only by the slow growth of the 1930s, according to data released by the Census Bureau on Monday.

In terms of total population,

the census counted 331,449,281 people

, an increase of 7.4% over the 2010 census and the lowest rate of population increase since 1930. California remains the most populous state, while Wyoming maintains its position as the least .

As a result,

in the designation of seats in Congress

, which are distributed equally among each state according to the population reported by the census,

only seven seats were moved among 13 states.

Texas was the big winner

, adding two new lower house seats after a massive population growth of more than 4 million residents in the past decade, more than any other state in absolute numbers.

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People walking down a major street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2021.AP

Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Florida, and North Carolina won one seat respectively.

While the states that lost political representation were concentrated in the Midwest: Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio each lost one seat.

California and New York

, two Democratic strongholds,

also lost a seat each

.

Now Texas has 29 million residents, the second most populous state in the country after California, with nearly 40 million residents.

The decennial census, which is a constitutional obligation, not only determines the number of seats that each state obtains in the House of Representatives, but

also the number of delegates that each entity sends to the Electoral College to vote for the president

.

The data for fiscal 2020 were announced by Ron Jarmin, acting director of the Census Bureau, after months of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

However, the information has not been disaggregated to the demographic group level nor has the complete data been presented.

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Demographic data to be released later this year

will help determine how the federal budget

for spending on roads, schools and other public works projects

is distributed

across the country.

The Census Bureau's announcement comes after the controversy the Trump Administration sparked when it tried to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 Census. President Joe Biden reversed that directive shortly after taking office.

He also removed an order from Trump that required the Census Bureau to collect citizenship information

on every resident of the country, something the former president instituted after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to include a question on the citizenship census questionnaire.

Kendall Johnson, Executive Director of the 2020 Census.AP / AP

In addition to the legal battles,

the pandemic also pushed back the 2020 Census schedule

.

Last year, the deadline for completing the count was postponed from the end of July to the end of October.

Then, last summer, the agency announced that the deadline would be moved to the end of September, a month earlier.

The Census Bureau did not meet the December 31 deadline for submitting the data to carry out the designation of seats in Congress and continued to postpone the dates to release the information after irregularities in the data were found.

With information from NBC News and The Associated Press.