Editing Apportionment paradox (section)

===Population paradox===
{{See also|State-population monotonicity}}
The '''population paradox''' is a counterintuitive result of some procedures for apportionment. When two states have populations increasing at different rates, a small state with rapid growth can lose a legislative seat to a big state with slower growth.

Some of the earlier Congressional apportionment methods, such as Hamilton, could exhibit the population paradox. In 1900, Virginia lost a seat to Maine, even though Virginia's population was growing more rapidly.<ref name=Stein2008/>{{rp|231–232}} However, divisor methods such as the current method do not.{{cn|date=March 2024}}