ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants state Attorney General Letitia James to “review all legal options available” regarding news that New York will lose one seat in the House of Representatives, following reports that the state was just 89 people short of holding steady.

The U.S. Census Bureau announced Monday that the Empire State’s delegation will fall from 27 to 26 seats as the result of the 2020 count. 

Census officials conceded that if an additional 89 New Yorkers had filled out the census forms, the state’s representation would not have changed. 

When asked to respond during an open press event in Binghamton Tuesday, Cuomo blamed the pandemic and former President Donald Trump.

“Look, you had a lot going on. You had people who were nervous to come forward, right? You have undocumented people who are nervous to come forward. I do believe the federal government had a chilling effect,” he told reporters.

Cuomo released a statement later in the afternoon citing the count was low due to  “unprecedented challenges” over the last year, including “the pandemic’s effect on the mail system to the Trump Administration’s xenophobic, flagrant, and illegal efforts to hurt blue states by discouraging non-citizens and people of color from being counted.”

“So much of our state’s recovery, revitalization, and resilience is dependent on having our voice heard in Washington, and we won’t allow Trump and his cronies to use one of our greatest attributes — our diversity — as an impediment,” he continued. 

“I’m calling on the attorney general to review all legal options available to ensure the voice of every New Yorker is fairly and wholly represented in the halls of Congress.”

A representative for Attorney General Letitia James was not available for immediate comment. 

But New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed Cuomo for New York’s loss.

“For God’s sake, if the state had invested in the Census, could you have found 89 more people to count? Sure, easily,” Hizzoner said Monday evening on NY1, echoing complaints from critics arguing the state refused to release millions in funding for census outreach until the summer of 2020 — months after the count was already underway.

“This was a lost opportunity by the state government to get the count right,” he continued. 

“What’s troubling to me is the State of New York clearly did not go that extra mile. They did not put the resources in, they held back money they should have devoted” to the census.

Overall, the state did see its population grow by 4 percent, with the analysis showing around 20.2 million individuals are living in the state — a boost from 19.4 million recorded in 2010 during the last census count. 

But the Empire State did see more “negative net domestic migration,” or a trend showing that individuals were leaving the state more frequently than moving in over the last 10 years.