Us midterm elections

*Special election Note: House districts have been redrawn since the 2020 election. Reuters compiled congressional race ratings from University of Virginia Center for Politics, Cook Political Report and Inside Elections. When there was consensus among the three sources, the race was categorized with that rating. When there was no consensus, the race was placed in a “Lean” category. “Share of expected votes counted” reflects recorded votes and the best estimate of the total number of votes cast according to Edison Research. Sources: Edison Research for the National Election Pool; Solid, lean and competitive ratings are aggregated from the University of Virginia Center for Politics, Cook Political Report and Inside Elections. Note: Flipped seats in the U.S. House represent all losses by the incumbent party and do not include 9 seats where the incumbent party could not be determined by Edison Research due to redistricting. Data development by Minami Funakoshi. Design by Ally J. Levine. Development by Sam Hart.

Background While The elections for many state and local government offices are held during the midterms so they are not overshadowed or influenced by the presidential election. [ citation needed] Still, a number of state and local governments instead prefer to avoid presidential and midterm years altogether and schedule their local races during odd-numbered " See also: Midterm elections are regarded as a referendum on the sitting president's and/or The party of the incumbent president tends to lose ground during midterm elections: Moreover, since direct public midterm elections were introduced, in only eight of those (under presidents both houses. The losses suffered during a president's second midterm tend to be more pronounced than during their first midterm, Year Sitting president President's party Net gain/loss of president's party House seats Senate seats None Federalist Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic Democratic None Democratic Whig Democratic Democratic Republican Democratic Republican Republican Republican Democratic Republican Democratic Republican Republican Republican Democratic Republican Republican Republican Democratic Democratic Republican Democratic Democratic Republican Republican Democratic Republican Republican Democratic Republican Democratic Republican Democratic See also: Basic rotation of Year Type a Presidential year b Midterm No No No No House No No 10 states 2 states 10 states 26 s...

The 2022 United States elections were held on November 8, 2022, with the exception of 2022 United States elections ← 2022 Election day November 8 Incumbent president Democratic) Next Congress Overall control Democratic hold Seats contested 35 of 100 seats (34 seats of Class III + special elections) Net seat change Democratic +1 Map of the 2022 Senate races Democratic gain Democratic hold Republican hold No election Rectangular inset (Oklahoma): both seats were up for election Overall control Republican gain Seats contested All 435 voting seats +5 of 6 non-voting seats Popular vote margin Republican +2.8% Net seat change Republican +9 Map of the 2022 House races Democratic gain Republican gain Democratic hold Republican hold Seats contested 39 (36 states, 3 territories) Net seat change Democratic +2 Map of the 2022 gubernatorial elections Democratic gain Republican gain Democratic hold Republican hold Independent gain No election While midterm elections typically see the incumbent president's party lose a substantial number of seats, The Democratic Party's strength in state-level and senatorial elections was historic, Six referendums to preserve or expand abortion access uniformly won, Issues that favored Democrats included significant concern over extremism and a lack of respect for democratic norms among certain Republican candidates, along with the American public's wide disapproval of the Contents • 1 Background • 2 Campaign • 2.1 Primaries • 2.2 Issues • 2.2.1 Economy ...

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Seat changed hands Many seats in United States elections always go to the same party. So control of the Senate and House of Representatives depends on a relatively small number of competitive seats, or "battlegrounds". Election experts rank the competitive seats as more or less likely to return a Republican or Democrat. This gives a clue to how the election is evolving overall; if Democrats are winning seats that were thought likely to go Republican, it may be an indication they will do well overall. Simplistically, blue shapes on the right of the following charts signal a good night for Biden and the Democrats, and red shapes on the left signal the opposite. All 435 seats in the lower chamber of the federal congress, the The upper chamber, the Senate, has 100 seats; two for each state, however populous. In every even-numbered year, roughly one-third of senators are elected for a six-year term. Legislation has to pass both chambers to become law. Senators have some additional responsibilities compared with their colleagues in the House; chiefly these have to do with confirming (or not) presidential appointments. Governors are not part of Congress. Their impact is mostly local to their own state, but because they can affect electoral law or practice, they can affect future federal elections. Going into the election the Democratic party of the president, Joe Biden, controlled both chambers of Congress, but by very narrow margins. In the Senate, a 50-50 split would mean a cas...