The chart tracks vacancies, open seats and potentially open seats in the House. Currently, Republicans hold the majority with 220 seats, while Democrats hold 212 seats. There are three vacancies. Click the districts in the table below to learn more about each race. Current House Makeup ...
All134 House seatswere on the ballot this year, and Republicans needed to take control of four seats in order to gain a majority and end the DFL "trifecta" — control of the House, Senate and governor's office which had been in place the last two years. They were able to pick up se...
“When we walk into 2026, it’d be much easier to defend these seats versus having to flip them. And that’ll give Democrats nationally just a little bit of an extra advantage from a starting point,” said Gomez Daly, a senior political strategist with California Donor Table and chair...
Republicans have won enough seats to control the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump is continuing to flesh out his administration, nominating Matt Gaetz, Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard to top roles.
Though Republicans lost a tranche of statewide elections in Arizona last cycle, they eked out victories in two purple House seats: Rep. David Schweikert held on to the 1st District in the rapidly growing northern Phoenix suburbs, and Juan Ciscomani flipped the open 6th District, which in...
Democrats won 80 of the 180 seats in the lower chamber of the General Assembly. That's up from the 78 they held before, but Democrats had hoped to make larger gains. One Democratic incumbent, Farooq Mughal of Dacula, lost, while several other Democratic candidate...
Kathy Hochul’s term is up in 2026 — a not-so-secret aspiration for the Republican — and one that made the race in the Hudson Valley even more of a priority for Democrats. Lead Art: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) speaks with reporters outside the...
“I'm confident we’re going to rebuild in 2026 and we’ll win back the White House in 2028. We’ve got to listen, we’ve got to go on some of these podcasts,” he said. Lead Art: Rep. Ro Khanna arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting at...
“We are on pace to potentially pick up seats, which I think we will in New York,” Stefanik said in the interview. “But [Trump's] pulling within single digits in New York.” Lead Art: Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 16, 2024, in Milwaukee....
When I was a senior in high school, that same Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq,” he continued. Vance painted politicians in Washington as the “ruling class” and reflected on how addiction had devastated the community he grew up in. At one point he introduced his mot...