2026 United States House of Representatives Elections (Dark Brandon)

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2026 U.S. House of Representatives elections
All 440 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives 221 needed for a majority
November 3, 2026
		Majority party	Minority party
Leader		Hakeem Jeffries	Steve Scalise (resigned)
Party		Democratic	Republican
Leader since		January 3, 2023	January 3, 2025
Leader's seat		New York 8th	Louisiana 1st
Last election		232 seats, 52.0%	203 seats, 46.5%
Seats before		232	203
Seats after		224	216
Seat change		8	13
Popular vote		54,511,241	53,953,866
Percentage		48.9%	48.4%
Swing		3.1%	1.9%
Speaker before election Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Elected Speaker Hakeem Jeffries Democratic

The 2026 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3, 2026, as part of the 2026 United States elections during incumbent president Kamala Harris' first term. Representatives were elected from all 440 U.S. congressional districts across each of the 50 states to serve in the 120th United States Congress, as well as four non-voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives from four of the five inhabited insular areas. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the 2026 U.S. Senate elections and the 2026 U.S. gubernatorial elections, were also held on the same date.

The Democratic Party, led by Hakeem Jeffries, held onto control of the House, defeating Steve Scalise and the Republican Party, who had hoped to retake control of the House in Kamala Harris' first midterm election. For the second time in a row, Republicans underperformed the historical expectation of making major gains in a midterm election where a Democrat was in the White House. Observers attributed Democrats' over-performance to, among other factors, hyper-polarization of the electorate that decreased the number of competitive districts, the resurgence of the issue of abortion and the underperformance of multiple statewide and congressional Republican candidates who held extreme views, including refusal to accept the party's 2020 and 2024 electoral losses, and Donald Trump's incarceration for multiple felonies. Unlike the 2022 midterms, Democrats were not weighed down by the issue of the economy, with inflation near the historical mean, and unemployment below 4%. The elections marked the first participation of the District of Columbia (officially the Douglass Commonwealth) and Puerto Rico as states in the Union. Because of their admission, the House increased in size to 440, making 221 the threshold for a majority of seats.

The 2026 House elections were the first elections held after the For the People Act, which banned partisan gerrymandering at the federal level in all 52 states (although not applicable for those with one district). As a result, many newly drawn congressional districts in both red and blue states that had been previously gerrymandered were up for grabs. This was the first time since 2002 that an incumbent President's party held control of the House after a midterm election. This was also the first time since 1950 that the party of an incumbent President held control of the House of Representatives after their second midterm election since entering office. The 2022 midterms were the first midterm election since 1998 in which neither chamber of Congress changed hands, and the first midterm election since 1978 in which an incumbent President's party controlled both chambers going into a midterm election, and didn't lose either one.

After Democrats' historical over-performance, Hakeem Jeffries was unanimously re-elected as Leader of the House Democratic Caucus, and thus continued as Speaker of the House for a second term. On the other hand, a wave of Republican discontent with Minority Leader Steve Scalise for their failure to retake the House prompted him to resign shortly after the election; he was replaced by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, the first woman to become the leader of the Senate or House GOP caucus.

Results summary and analysis

The front page of the New York Times on November 4, 2026, the day after the election

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Democrats held onto their control of the House with 224 seats, 3 more than the necessary 221 to achieve a majority. Democrats lost a net of 4 seats, while the Republicans gained a net of 9 seats. Because of the addition of D.C. and Puerto Rico, Democrats picked up 4 newly created seats, 3 from Puerto Rico and 1 from D.C.'s at-large district. Republicans picked up 1 newly created district in Puerto Rico. Unlike the 2022 midterms, held halfway through President Biden's first term, Democrats managed to win the popular vote, albeit by a margin of 0.5%, or just over 500,000 votes. This was the closest margin in the generic ballot since the 2000 election. Turnout in the 2026 midterms was on par with that of the 2022 midterms.

The passage of the For the People Act in 2025 banned partisan gerrymandering, resulting in a slew of new districts in both red and blue states that offered opportunities for pickups by both parties. The new law was attributed to most flips in districts, including the following:

States with districts that flipped from Republican to Democratic likely due to redistricting:

1. Arkansas: Democrats gained one seat in a newly-created majority-minority district.
2. Florida: Democrats gained two seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
3. Georgia: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
4. Indiana: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
5. Iowa: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
6. Missouri: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
7. North Carolina: Democrats gained two seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
8. Ohio: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
9. Oklahoma: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
10. Tennessee: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
11. Texas: Democrats gained three seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
12. Utah: Democrats gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.

States with districts that flipped from Democratic to Republican likely due to redistricting:

1. California: Republicans gained eight seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
2. Connecticut: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
3. Illinois: Republicans gained three seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
4. Maryland: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
5. Massachusetts: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
6. Nevada: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
7. New Jersey: Republicans gained two seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
8. New Mexico: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
9. New York: Republicans gained six seats from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.
10. Oregon: Republicans gained one seat from a newly drawn partisan-neutral map.

State	Total seats	Democratic		Republican
		Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Alabama	7	2		5
Alaska	1	1		0
Arizona	9	4	1	5	1
Arkansas	4	1	1	3	1
California	52	36	8	16	8
Colorado	8	5		3
Connecticut	5	4	1	1	1
Delaware	1	1		0
D.C.	1	1	1	0
Florida	28	11	2	17	2
Georgia	14	7	1	7	1
Hawaii	2	2		0
Idaho	2	0		2
Illinois	17	11	3	6	3
Indiana	9	3	1	6	1
Iowa	4	1	1	3	1
Kansas	4	1		3
Kentucky	6	1		5
Louisiana	6	2		4
Maine	2	2		0
Maryland	8	6	1	2	1
Massachusetts	9	8	1	1	1
Michigan	13	7	1	6	1
Minnesota	8	4		4
Mississippi	4	1		3
Missouri	8	3	1	5	1
Montana	2	0		2
Nebraska	3	1		2
Nevada	4	2	1	2	1
New Hampshire	2	2		0
New Jersey	12	8	2	4	2
New Mexico	3	2	1	1	1
New York	26	15	6	11	6
North Carolina	14	6	2	8	2
North Dakota	1	0		1
Ohio	15	6	1	9	1
Oklahoma	5	1	1	4	1
Oregon	6	4	1	2	1
Pennsylvania	17	9		8
Puerto Rico	4	3	3	1	1
Rhode Island	2	2		0
South Carolina	7	2		5
South Dakota	1	0		1
Tennessee	9	2	1	7	1
Texas	38	16	3	22	3
Utah	4	1	1	3	1
Vermont	1	1		0
Virginia	11	6	1	5	1
Washington	10	7		3
West Virginia	2	0		2
Wisconsin	8	3	1	5	1
Wyoming	1	0		1
Total	440	224	8	216	13