---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 2b"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "2b"
heading: "Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/2b"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Election of Senators and Representatives"
---

# §2b. Number of Representatives from each State in 78th and subsequent Congresses


Each [State](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1) shall be entitled, in the Seventy-eighth and in each Congress thereafter until the taking effect of a reapportionment under a subsequent statute or [section 2a of this title](/usc/2/2a.md), to the number of Representatives shown in the statement transmitted to the Congress on January 8, 1941, based upon the method known as the method of equal proportions, no [State](/usc/2/4556.md?p=1) to receive less than one [Member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(a), 55 Stat. 762.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Certificates to Executives of States

Act Nov. 15, 1941, ch. 470, § 2(b), 55 Stat. 762, required Clerk of House of Representatives, within 15 days of Nov. 15, 1941, to send a new certificate of entitlement of a State to Representatives, if such a certificate had been sent prior to Nov. 15, 1941, under provisions of section 2a of this title.