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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.
Republican representative-elect Luke Letlow died on December 29, 2020, before taking office. [5] His seat was left vacant at the start of the next session of Congress.A special nonpartisan election was called by Governor John Bel Edwards for March 20, 2021. [6]
Republicans picked up 14 seats in the House elections, defeating thirteen incumbent House Democrats. [59] Nationally, Democratic House candidates won by a margin of about 3%, as many Democrats ran behind Biden. [60] The election results left Democrats with a narrow majority of 222 seats at the start of the 117th Congress.
The election for speaker took place on January 3, 2021, at the start of the 117th Congress. In a break with tradition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all House members-elect did not gather in the chamber to vote and record their presence, but rather, were summoned to the chambers in 7 groups of about 72 people. [10]
The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primaries were held on April 28, 2020.
Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States [80] U.S. senators. Tammy Duckworth, US Senator from Illinois [81] Dick Durbin, US Senator from Illinois [81] Elizabeth Warren, US Senator from Massachusetts and former US presidential candidate in 2020 [81] Organizations. 314 Action [82] End Citizens United [83] J Street PAC [84]
Gov. Greg Gianforte has served as governor of Montana since early 2021. As a member of the US House of Representatives in December 2020, he was one of 126 House Republicans who signed on to a ...
The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate, and various state and local elections. Following the 2020 elections, no seats changed hands, leaving the Tennessee delegation at a 7-2 Republican majority.