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PHOTO: Rep. Mike Johnson leaves the floor after the House failed to elect a Speaker of the House in the first vote on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol, Jan ...
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 ...
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to a colleague as the House votes on a Speaker of the House on the first day of the 119th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 03, 2025.
Decision Desk HQ projected the House had won its 218th seat Monday, the number needed for a majority in the lower chamber. The result is a major… Republicans win House, delivering Trump a trifecta
[5] [6] Democrats made a net gain of 1 seat from the Republicans, which represents the smallest net change in US history in the House of Representatives. The majority was decided by just over 7,000 votes across three congressional districts (Iowa's 1st, Colorado's 8th, and Pennsylvania's 7th); [7] this was a roughly 2-point bias in favor of ...
Despite a large field of Republican candidates, the election was won by Letlow's widow, Julia Letlow, who won a majority of the vote outright, eliminating the need for a runoff. [ 7 ] 2021 Louisiana's 5th congressional district special election [ 1 ]
Republicans currently have majority control of the House of Representatives. The GOP took back the House by a slim marigin in the 2022 midterm elections. Of the 435 voting seats in the House, 220 ...
The House Republican Conference vote was held on November 15, 2022, and despite a challenge from Biggs, McCarthy won the majority of votes, becoming the Republican nominee for speaker of the House. As McCarthy won less than 218 votes, a majority of the seats in the House, the media started questioning his ability to be voted in as Speaker.