U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 2018-present
Ballotpedia tracked U.S. House races without a Democratic or Republican candidate in each election since 2018. This page provides links to and summaries of each yearly analysis.
Click on a year below to read analysis from that year.
2024
Races without Democratic candidates
- Alabama's 3rd Congressional District
- Alabama's 4th Congressional District
- Alabama's 5th Congressional District
- California's 20th Congressional District
- Illinois' 15th Congressional District
- Illinois' 16th Congressional District
- Kentucky's 4th Congressional District
- Kentucky's 5th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 4th Congressional District
- Mississippi's 3rd Congressional District
- Nevada's 2nd Congressional District
- North Carolina's 3rd Congressional District
- North Carolina's 6th Congressional District
- Texas' 1st Congressional District
- Texas' 11th Congressional District
- Texas' 13th Congressional District
- Texas' 19th Congressional District
- Texas' 25th Congressional District
- Washington's 4th Congressional District
Races without Republican candidates
- California's 12th Congressional District
- California's 16th Congressional District
- California's 34th Congressional District
- California's 37th Congressional District
- Florida's 20th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 2nd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District
- Texas' 9th Congressional District
- Texas' 20th Congressional District
- Texas' 30th Congressional District
- Washington's 2nd Congressional District
- Washington's 9th Congressional District
2022
Races without Democratic candidates
- Alabama's 1st Congressional District
- Alabama's 6th Congressional District
- Arizona's 8th Congressional District
- Arizona's 9th Congressional District
- Florida's 18th Congressional District
- Florida's 5th Congressional District
- Florida's 6th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 4th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 6th Congressional District
- North Dakota's At-Large Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 14th Congressional District
- South Carolina's 3rd Congressional District
- South Carolina's 4th Congressional District
- South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District
- Texas' 6th Congressional District
- Texas' 11th Congressional District
- Texas' 19th Congressional District
- Texas' 25th Congressional District
- Texas' 26th Congressional District
- Texas' 31st Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District
Races without Republican candidates
- California's 10th Congressional District
- California's 15th Congressional District
- California's 16th Congressional District
- California's 29th Congressional District
- California's 30th Congressional District
- California's 34th Congressional District
- California's 37th Congressional District
- Illinois' 7th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District
- New York's 9th Congressional District
- New York's 13th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 3rd Congressional District
2020
Races without Democratic candidates
- Alabama's 5th Congressional District
- Alabama's 6th Congressional District
- Arkansas' 1st Congressional District
- Florida's 2nd Congressional District
- Florida's 25th Congressional District
- Mississippi's 4th Congressional District
- South Dakota's At-Large Congressional District
- Virginia's 9th Congressional District
Races without Republican candidates
- Alabama's 7th Congressional District
- California's 12th Congressional District
- California's 18th Congressional District
- California's 29th Congressional District
- California's 34th Congressional District
- California's 38th Congressional District
- California's 44th Congressional District
- California's 53rd Congressional District
- Illinois' 8th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District
- New York's 5th Congressional District
- New York's 16th Congressional District
- North Carolina's 12th Congressional District
- Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District
- Tennessee's 5th Congressional District
- Washington's 10th Congressional District
2018
Races without Democratic candidates
Races without Republican candidates
- Alabama's 7th Congressional District
- Arizona's 7th Congressional District
- California's 5th Congressional District
- California's 6th Congressional District
- California's 13th Congressional District
- California's 20th Congressional District
- California's 27th Congressional District
- California's 34th Congressional District
- California's 40th Congressional District
- California's 44th Congressional District
- Florida's 10th Congressional District
- Florida's 14th Congressional District
- Florida's 20th Congressional District
- Florida's 21st Congressional District
- Florida's 24th Congressional District
- Georgia's 5th Congressional District
- Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 1st Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 4th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 7th Congressional District
- Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District
- Michigan's 13th Congressional District
- Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District
- New York's 5th Congressional District
- New York's 6th Congressional District
- New York's 7th Congressional District
- New York's 8th Congressional District
- New York's 16th Congressional District
- New York's 17th Congressional District
- Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District
- Texas' 9th Congressional District
- Texas' 20th Congressional District
- Texas' 28th Congressional District
- Texas' 30th Congressional District
- Virginia's 3rd Congressional District
- Washington's 2nd Congressional District
- Washington's 9th Congressional District
- Wisconsin's 2nd Congressional District
Methodology
There are several methodological choices that Ballotpedia made in calculating the number of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate on this page:
- Write-in candidates were not counted as candidates for the purpose of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate. However, if a write-in candidate advanced from a primary to a general election and became a regular candidate on the general election ballot, that candidate was counted for the purpose of races without a Democratic or Republican candidate.
- Candidates who officially withdrew from a race were not counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis.
- Candidates who unofficially withdrew from a race but still appeared on the ballot were counted as candidates for the purpose of this analysis. This meant that a race did not count as a race without a Democratic or Republican candidate if an unofficially withdrawn candidate still appeared on the ballot.
- In California and Washington state, which have top-two primary systems, a race was counted as not having a Democratic or Republican candidate if no candidate from a major party advanced from the primary election to the general election.
- This analysis included races in states where the candidate filing deadline had not passed. However, Ballotpedia's 2024 analyses of state legislative and state executive races without a major party candidate included only elections in states whose filing deadlines had passed.
See also
- U.S. House elections without a Democratic or Republican candidate, 1920-2018
- Congressional Analysis Archive
- Ballotpedia's Election Analysis Hub, 2024
Footnotes