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Elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2013. This off-year election cycle featured several special elections to the United States Congress; two gubernatorial races; state legislative elections in a few states; and numerous citizen initiatives, mayoral races, and a variety of other local offices on the ballot.
Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to serve in the 116th United States Congress. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U.S. territories [f] were also elected. On Election Day, Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011. [4]
On June 25, 2013, 20-term incumbent Democrat Ed Markey defeated Republican Gabriel Gomez [22] in the special election to fill the remaining 18-months of the unexpired term of the Class II United States Senate seat caused by senator John Kerry's confirmation as Secretary of State. Markey resigned from the House of Representatives on July 15, 2013.
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state legislatures.
Elections were held in the United States on November 6, 2018. [c] These midterm elections occurred during Incumbent Republican President Donald Trump's first term.Although the Republican Party increased its majority in the Senate, unified Republican control of Congress and the White House was brought to an end when the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives in what was ...
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 2020, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to the 117th United States Congress, as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories.
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States [67] Kathleen Sebelius, former Governor of Kansas and former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [68] U.S. Representatives. Raul Ruiz, US Representative (D-CA-25) State legislators. Cindy Holscher, state representative [54] Laura Kelly, state senator and 2018 nominee for ...
The elections coincided with the gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. The state congressional delegation flipped from a 3–1 Republican majority to a 3–1 Democratic majority.