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Section sizes

Section size for 2022 United States House of Representatives elections (98 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	13,035	13,035
Electoral system	285	285
Results	15,080	25,862
Federal	3,467	3,467
Per state	6,597	6,597
Maps	718	718
Retirements	908	22,301
Democrats	12,795	12,795
Republicans	8,598	8,598
Resignations and death	184	1,540
Democrats	1,038	1,038
Republicans	318	318
Incumbents defeated	152	10,901
In primary elections	29	6,769
Democrats	2,947	2,947
Republicans	3,793	3,793
In general elections	29	3,980
Democrats	2,448	2,448
Republicans	1,503	1,503
Reapportionment	865	4,878
New seats	282	282
Seats eliminated	248	248
Seats with multiple incumbents running	3,483	3,483
Open seats that changed parties	65	688
Republican seats won by Democrats	157	157
Democratic seats won by Republicans	466	466
Open seats that parties held	116	2,591
Democratic holds/flips	1,165	1,165
Republican holds/flips	1,310	1,310
Newly created seats	153	1,259
Democratic gain	502	502
Republican gain	604	604
Vulnerable seats	657	2,671
Democratic	744	744
Republican	1,270	1,270
Closest races	7,236	7,236
Election ratings	1,093	1,093
Special elections	10,583	10,583
Exit poll	29,277	29,277
Alabama	4,646	4,646
Alaska	1,635	1,635
Arizona	4,773	4,773
Arkansas	2,764	2,764
California	25,607	25,607
Colorado	4,825	4,825
Connecticut	3,407	3,407
Delaware	1,365	1,365
Florida	13,878	13,878
Georgia	7,049	7,049
Hawaii	1,694	1,694
Idaho	1,673	1,673
Illinois	9,091	9,091
Indiana	5,247	5,247
Iowa	2,605	2,605
Kansas	2,305	2,305
Kentucky	3,575	3,575
Louisiana	4,071	4,071
Maine	1,677	1,677
Maryland	4,317	4,317
Massachusetts	4,489	4,489
Michigan	9,337	9,337
Minnesota	4,820	4,820
Mississippi	2,638	2,638
Missouri	4,712	4,712
Montana	2,068	2,068
Nebraska	2,162	2,162
Nevada	2,882	2,882
New Hampshire	1,483	1,483
New Jersey	8,261	8,261
New Mexico	2,140	2,140
New York	13,134	13,134
North Carolina	7,742	7,742
North Dakota	1,215	1,215
Ohio	7,593	7,593
Oklahoma	3,332	3,332
Oregon	3,860	3,860
Pennsylvania	8,469	8,469
Rhode Island	1,753	1,753
South Carolina	3,959	3,959
South Dakota	1,287	1,287
Tennessee	6,062	6,062
Texas	17,816	17,816
Utah	2,814	2,814
Vermont	2,006	2,006
Virginia	5,506	5,506
Washington	4,928	4,928
West Virginia	1,921	1,921
Wisconsin	4,476	4,476
Wyoming	1,403	1,403
Non-voting delegates	25	4,577
American Samoa	754	754
District of Columbia	902	902
Guam	1,159	1,159
Northern Mariana Islands	987	987
United States Virgin Islands	750	750
See also	212	212
Notes	24	24
References	277	277
Total	389,762	389,762

Map colors

I think that new districts or districts without an incumbent should have a light gray colour, rather than blue or red.

New York's 3rd congressional district should count as a NYC seat for the map on the side of the page.

The Seat Republican George Santos (who lives in Queens) picked up contains parts of Queens, and therefore NYC, meaning that the Republican Party now has two of the NYC Congressional seats but the Wikipedia maps still shows only NY-11 as the only R seat.

Error

Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional District is not 11th, but instead 12th. Please rectify, thanks. 101.127.78.139 (talk) 04:54, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

After the redistricting in California, post-2020 US census, her city San Francisco is now in California's 11th congressional district. And in 2022 House elections she ran from this district. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 08:53, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

In the third paragraph, the article attributes democratic gains in Ohio to the state supreme court overturning gerrymanders. However, each set of maps that were submitted were rules to be unconstitutional gerrymanders. Eventually, a federal court ruled that it was too close to the election to draw another new set of maps and allowed the state to use a set of maps that have already been found to be an unconstitutional gerrymander. Based on this, I don't think it's correct to attribute democratic gains to the redrawn maps. 2601:408:C200:3C60:60EB:8ECD:5906:2F84 (talk) 17:09, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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In the table at the top of the page, the next year for house elections is 2023. Can you please say "2023"? Please. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:CCE8:E2DF:41A6:666A (talk) 00:16, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unclear what you are asking for. The House elections are every two years, the next one will be in 2024, which is what the infobox links to. RudolfRed (talk) 00:33, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, 2023 is next, because there will be a House Election in Virginia's 4th District. So the info box needs to say "2023 is next". Thanks. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:CCE8:E2DF:41A6:666A (talk) 00:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The link goes to the regularly scheduled election for the next Congress; that's the standard set up for these infoboxes. — Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 13:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is a "2023 United States House of Representatives elections" page, so the 2023 election is next. Can you please fix the info box? Please. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:60C1:CA49:27AD:5418 (talk) 19:01, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Table Coloring

I see that the state by state, seat by seat tables have solid blocks of color for the partisan vote index and for the incumbent, but not for the winner? Is there a strong reason for this? I would expect that readers of an encyclopedia would most benefit by having the incumbent and the winner highlighted. Jd2718 (talk) 00:18, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Idea for change in format to indications of party affiliation changes in electoral history/"first elected" columns in wikitables

Hello, everyone.
When it has come to the wikitables in US House, Senate, and governor election pages, party switches for politicians in the electoral history or "first elected" columns are usually indicated with simply insets or notes to say that they changed their party affiliation during their tenure. For example, see Jeff Van Drew for NJ-2 from this page (bolded):

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
New Jersey 2	R+5	Jeff Van Drew	Republican	2018^[a]	Incumbent's intent unknown	▌Carolyn Rush (Democratic)

However, it feels as though party switches and general affiliation changes are common enough on election wikitables that having to use an inset each time is a bit awkward to do. As such, I am proposing that party switches be changed to a similar style to how nonconsecutive periods of service are indicated (for example, see Kweisi Mfume):

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
Maryland 7	D+30	Kweisi Mfume	Democratic	1986 1996 (resigned) 2020 (special)	Incumbent's intent unknown	TBD

Returning to the example of Jeff Van Drew, this rendered for party switches could look like this:

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
New Jersey 2	R+5	Jeff Van Drew	Republican	2018 (Democratic) 2019 (Republican)	Incumbent's intent unknown	▌Carolyn Rush (Democratic)

Or, for examples of people who had longer periods of service, here's what they could look like:

District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
Michigan 3	Justin Amash	Libertarian	2010 (Republican) 2019 (Independent) 2020 (Libertarian)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	Y Peter Meijer (Republican) 53.0% Hillary Scholten (Democratic) 47.0%
District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
Texas 4	Ralph Hall	Republican	1980 (Democratic) 2004 (Republican)	Incumbent lost renomination. New member elected. Republican hold.	Y John Ratcliffe (Republican) Unopposed
District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status	Candidates
Virginia 5	Virgil Goode	Republican	1996 (Democratic) 2000 (Independent) 2002 (Republican)	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic gain.	Y Tom Perriello (Democratic) 50.1% Virgil Goode (Republican) 49.9%

Thank you for your consideration, and I hope that this proposal will ultimately be implemented. PrusBis6187 (talk) 21:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pelosi stepping down as leader

shouldn't the infobox have Pelosi retiring as Democratic house leader? 72.24.214.237 (talk) 22:40, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

the change in leadership took place in the following Congress, after these elections took place. it’s not particularly relevant to an article about the elections. Griffindaly (talk) 22:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion polls

Shouldn't there be a section on opinion polls, showing e.g. a list of generic ballot polls for the house prior to the election. That is the standard for other first-past-the-polls elections like the UK House of Commons too 11:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC) 159.86.201.134 (talk) 11:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oregon Map

Can someone fix the oregon map. It shows that there was a democrat gain and a Republican gain NathanBru (talk) 22:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voter turnout

Didn’t there used to be at the top of the infobox the percentage for total voter turnout compared to registered voters nationwide what happened to that? Rabbipika (talk) 16:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Crossover seats

Would it be an idea to edit the table for crossover seats to include future (so 2024) presidential results, this confirming the status of the seat as a crossover seat and not simply a seat that was already shifting? This information may be interesting. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 06:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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