Tag: Congress
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Shomari Figures (D) and Anthony Daniels (D) are running in the Democratic primary runoff in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District
Shomari Figures (D) and Anthony Daniels (D) are running in the Democratic primary runoff in Alabama's 2nd Congressional District on April 16, 2024. Figures and Daniels were the top two finishers in the 11-candidate primary on March 5, 2024, receiving 43.5% and 22.4% of the vote, respectively. The two advanced to a runoff because neither…
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Fifty-one members of Congress have announced they will not seek re-election in 2024 — more than at this point in previous cycles
Fifty-one members of Congress have announced they will not seek re-election in 2024 — more than at this point in previous cycles. Since Jan. 9, seven U.S. House members announced they will not seek re-election in 2024. This count includes one Democrat and six Republicans. Including the announcements above, 51 members of Congress — seven…
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164 candidates are running for Texas' 38 U.S. House districts—the most since 2016
This year's filing deadline for candidates running for Congress in Texas was Dec. 11, 2023. One hundred sixty-four candidates are running for Texas’ 38 U.S. House districts, including 63 Democrats and 101 Republicans. That’s 4.3 candidates per district, the lowest number since 2016, when 3.5 candidates ran. In 2022, the first election after the number…
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House GOP passes four more bills opposing ESG out of committee
House Republicans on September 14 passed four new bills opposing ESG out of the Education and Workforce Committee, bringing the total number of ESG bills passed out of committee this year to seven. The move followed the lead of the House Financial Services Committee, which advanced its own slate of bills opposing ESG in August.…
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The 118th Congress sees its lowest-ever approval rating average in August
At the end of August, approval polling averages showed President Joe Biden (D) at 41% approval. Fifty-four percent of voters disapproved of his performance. This was one point lower than the approval rating he received at the end of July. Throughout August, Biden’s approval rating remained between 41% and 42%. The lowest approval rating he’s…
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Number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has increased since 1993
The number of special elections to each meeting of Congress has steadily increased over the past twenty years, from an average of 7.6 special elections in the five meetings beginning in 1993, to 11.6 in the five meetings starting in 2003, and to 13.4 in the five meetings that began in 2013 and ended in…
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Three special elections called so far in the 118th Congress
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I., 1st) resigned from Congress on June 1 to become president of the Rhode Island Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Providence. A special election to replace him is scheduled for Nov. 7, 2023. The special election to replace Cicilline is one of three scheduled so far during the 118th Congress.…
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More members of Congress and state legislators sought other offices in 2022 than in 2020
In 2022, 551 officials in Congress and state legislatures ran for a different office than the one to which they were elected. That’s a 61% increase from 2020, when Ballotpedia tracked 344 officials in Congress and state legislatures who ran for a different office. At the Congressional level, 17 members of the U.S. House of…
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Since 2000, the Republican Party's share of seats won exceeded its national vote share in 11 of 12 U.S. House of Representatives elections
Since 2000, the Republican Party's share of seats won exceeded its national vote share in 11 of 12 U.S. House of Representatives elections. The only election where the Republican Party won fewer U.S. House districts relative to its national vote share was in 2008. During this period, the Democratic Party's share of seats won exceeded…
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Twelve delegations become more Republican and nine become more Democratic in the 118th Congress
As a result of the 2022 elections, the congressional delegations of 12 states will become more Republican because Republicans in those states gained seats, Democrats lost seats, or a combination of the two. The congressional delegations of nine states will become more Democratic because Democrats in those states gained seats, Republicans lost seats, or a…