Live House election results for 2024 races

Republicans took backmost power of nan House successful nan 2022 midterm elections aft 4 years of Democratic rule. But GOP infighting has made it difficult to govern pinch a razor-thin mostly amid early retirements and nan expulsion of Rep. George Santos, whose spot was later picked up by a Democrat. 

In January 2023, erstwhile House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California yet won nan speaker's gavel aft 15 ballots amid a prolonged — and nationalist — conflict pinch conservatives who demanded concessions, foreshadowing nan limits of his powerfulness complete a fractured party.

His woody pinch far-right Republicans to let a azygous personnel to trigger a no-confidence ballot to region nan speaker came backmost to haunt him 9 months later aft he relied connected nan votes of House Democrats to temporarily avert a authorities shutdown. Eight Republicans voted pinch each Democrats to region McCarthy, making it nan first clip successful U.S. history a House speaker was ousted by specified a motion. 

Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana succeeded McCarthy aft 3 weeks of chaos caused by nan GOP's inability to coalesce astir a candidate. Though Johnson has faced akin issues arsenic McCarthy and has had to trust connected Democratic votes to walk legislation, he has survived successful nan domiciled longer than his predecessor. Democrats stepped successful to rescue Johnson from an ouster effort successful May. 

Of nan 435 House seats connected nan ballot, astir 40 are seen arsenic competitive, according to the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan predetermination study tract that considers 22 of those races toss-ups. Of those 22 seats, 10 are held by Democrats and 12 by Republicans. Of nan different 21 competitory seats, 13 are thin Democrat and 8 are thin Republican. 

Republicans presently person 220 seats. Democrats person 212. There are 3 vacancies owed to nan deaths of Rep. Sheila Jackson, a Texas Democrat, and Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, and nan early status of Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican. 

For Democrats to return power of nan enclosure they'd person to clasp connected to their 212 seats and nan 2 vacancies from deaths, arsenic good arsenic prime up 4 seats. 

It's improbable to beryllium that easy, however. Redrawn legislature maps successful North Carolina mean 3 seats held by Democrats are poised to beryllium easy won by Republicans.

But nan plaything toward Republicans is blunted successful portion by redrawn legislature districts successful Louisiana and Alabama that are apt to beryllium won by Democrats nether nan caller lines. 

—  Caitlin Yilek, Hunter Woodall and Alexandria Johnson