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The 10.6% popular vote advantage by the Democrats was the largest by either party since 1982, 26 years earlier, and as of 2024 remains the most recent time that either party won by a double-digit margin in the overall popular vote for the House of Representatives. [4] Turnout increased due to the concurrent presidential election.
This election marked the first time since 2016 where Republicans won a majority of the congressional delegation in Pennsylvania and Michigan. [8] [9] This election also marked the first time since 2008 in which Democrats won more than one seat in Alabama, and the first time since 2006 when Democrats won more than one seat in Louisiana.
All 435 U.S. House of Representatives seats were up for election this year, and as of Monday evening, neither party had claimed control. Democrats stood at 204 seats claimed and Republicans were ...
WASHINGTON - Control of the House of Representatives remains up for grabs as the vote counting heads into the weekend in two dozen pivotal U.S. House races, with both parties hoping to seize the ...
Read More: 2024 Election Results: Live Updates As of 9:00 a.m. ET, Republicans have taken control of the Senate, and have won 198 seats in the House. Control over the House is still up for grabs ...
Additionally, as the U.S. Constitution does not explicitly state that the speaker must be an incumbent member of the House, it is permissible for representatives to vote for someone who is not a member of the House at the time, and non-members have received a few votes in various speaker elections over the past several years. Nevertheless ...
Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...
The 2008 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2008, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states.