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236 candidates for House and Senate, including 130 Democrats, 45 Republicans and 61 third-party candidates. Here’s a full breakdown of how lawmakers responded. -- Sudiksha Kochi
Representative State District Date Congress Old party New party Notes Galusha A. Grow: Pennsylvania: 14th: February–June 1856 34th: Democratic: Republican
First elected as a Republican, became a Silver Republican in 1897, and a Democrat in 1903. [431] 1908 – Theodore A. Bell, former U.S. representative from California (1903–1905). He ran in several elections under different party's banners. 1912 – Edward P. Costigan, later a U.S. senator from Colorado (1931–1937).
The first two major parties in the United States were the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party. The Federalists experienced success in the 1790s but lost power in the 1800 elections and collapsed after the War of 1812. Many former Federalists, including John Quincy Adams, became members
The 119th Congress convenes with new members being sworn in. Republicans hold a narrow majority of 219-215 in the House. The Senate majority is 53-47, well below the 60-vote threshold needed to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a slim 220-215 majority when the next Congress gets underway next month after Democrats picked up a seat in ...
The House assumed a 220–215 Republican majority, the narrowest controlling majority in House history with the 65th Congress. [10] Mike Johnson was re-elected as speaker on the first ballot after initially not receiving enough votes on the roll call, with the vote remaining open until enough members changed votes to support him.
Jan 3, 2:33 PM Two GOP defectors change their vote to Johnson. Reps. Ralph Norman and Keith Self changed their votes to Johnson, which would bring him to the 218 needed to be speaker.