In a minimum of two well-written paragraphs, describe the process of apportionment and the way in which the process affects Congressional elections.

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United States congressional apportionment is the process[1] by which seats in the United States House of Representatives are distributed among the 50 states according to the most recent decennial census mandated by the United States Constitution. Each state is apportioned a number of seats which approximately corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of the 50 states.[2] However, every state is constitutionally guaranteed at least one seat.

The number of voting seats in the House of Representatives has been 435 since 1913, capped at that number by the Reapportionment Act of 1929—except for a temporary (1959–1962) increase to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union.[3]

The size of a state's total congressional delegation also determines the size of its representation in the U.S. Electoral College, which elects the U.S. president.