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United States House of Representatives elections, 2022
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November 8, 2022 |
Elections to the U.S. House were held on November 8, 2022. All 435 seats were up for election. Special elections were also held to fill vacancies that occurred in the 117th Congress.
Partisan breakdown
Following the 2020 general elections, the Democratic Party held the majority in the U.S. House. Democrats gained control of the chamber in the 2018 elections.
The Republican Party would have needed to pick up 21 seats in November 2020 to win the chamber. They gained a net total of 12 seats.
| U.S. House Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 3, 2020 | After the 2020 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 232 | 222 | |
| Republican Party | 197 | 213 | |
| Libertarian Party | 1 | 0 | |
| Vacancies | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 435 | 435 | |
The chart below shows historical partisan breakdown information for the chamber.
Wave elections
- See also: Wave elections (1918-2016)
In a July 2018 report, Ballotpedia defined wave elections as the 20 percent of elections in the last 100 years resulting in the greatest seat swings against the president's party. U.S. House waves from 1918 to 2016 are listed in the table below.
| U.S. House wave elections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | President | Party | Election type | House seats change | House majority[1] | |
| 1932 | Hoover | R | Presidential | -97 | D | |
| 1922 | Harding | R | First midterm | -76 | R | |
| 1938 | Roosevelt | D | Second midterm | -70 | D | |
| 2010 | Obama | D | First midterm | -63 | R (flipped) | |
| 1920 | Wilson | D | Presidential | -59 | R | |
| 1946 | Truman | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1994 | Clinton | D | First midterm | -54 | R (flipped) | |
| 1930 | Hoover | R | First midterm | -53 | D (flipped) | |
| 1942 | Roosevelt | D | Third midterm | -50 | D | |
| 1966 | Johnson | D | First midterm[2] | -48 | D | |
| 1974 | Ford | R | Second midterm[3] | -48 | D | |
Incumbents not seeking re-election
Last updated January 20, 2020
Ballotpedia will add to this section as information becomes available.
Important dates and deadlines
This section will provide important dates throughout the 2022 congressional election cycle, including filing deadlines, primaries, and campaign finance reporting deadlines, when available.
See also
- United States Congress elections, 2022
- United States Senate elections, 2022
- United States Congress
- United States House of Representatives
- United States Senate
- 117th United States Congress
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Denotes the party that had more seats in the U.S. House following the election.
- ↑ Lyndon Johnson's (D) first term began in November 1963 after the death of President John F. Kennedy (D), who was first elected in 1960. Before Johnson had his first midterm in 1966, he was re-elected president in 1964.
- ↑ Gerald Ford's (R) first term began in August 1974 following the resignation of President Richard Nixon (R), who was first elected in 1968 and was re-elected in 1972. Because Ford only served for two full months before facing the electorate, this election is classified as Nixon's second midterm.
