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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 ...
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]
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.
2018 United States Senate elections ← 2016 November 6, 2018 November 27 (Mississippi runoff) 2020 → ← 2017 (AL) 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Mitch McConnell Chuck Schumer Party Republican Democratic Leader since January 3, 2007 January 3, 2017 Leader's seat Kentucky New York Seats before 51 47 Seats ...
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 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.
In an October 2020 survey, 47% of respondents disagreed with the statement that the election "is likely to be fair and honest", 51% would not "generally agree on who is the legitimately elected president of the United States"; [220] 56% said that they expect "an increase in violence as a result of the election".
The elections coincided with the 2018 gubernatorial election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. In January 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state's congressional map, ruling it had been unfairly gerrymandered to favor ...