The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U. S. territories were also elected. In the 2018 elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House.
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The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 6, 2018, with early voting taking place in some states in the weeks preceding that date. Voters chose representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five inhabited U. S. territories were also elected. On Election Day, Republicans had held a House majority since January 2011. In the 2018 elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. The 41-seat gain was the Democrats’ largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections, when they picked up 49 seats.
Democrats also won the popular vote by a margin of 8. 6%, the largest margin on record for a party that previously held a minority in the House and the highest turnout for a midterm election in more than a century. Upon the opening of the 116th United States Congress, Pelosi was elected as Speaker. Incumbent Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan chose not to run for another term. In November 2018, House Republicans elected Kevin McCarthy as House Minority Leader. This was the first use of ranked choice voting to decide a House race, with Democrats maintaining their 7–1 House race lead. The Republican majority was reduced from 10–4 to 9–5. The Democratic majority increased from 39–14 to 46–7. In eighty-nine races the margin of victory was under 10%. Elections ordered by election date.
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