US ELECTION 2024
How many representatives are elected in the US Election in each state and who controls the House?
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All 435 members of Congress must seek re-election every two years to serve another term in the House of Representatives. US Senators, in comparison, serve six-year terms. As ascribed in the US Constitution, the seats in the US House of Representatives are distributed based on the population of the states, with those with larger populations allocated more seats.
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California, the country’s most populous state, sends 52 representatives to Congress, followed by Texas, which sends 38 members, and New York, whose delegation includes 26 representatives.
- Alabama:7
- Alaska: 1
- Arizona: 9
- Arkansas: 4
- California: 52
- Colorado: 8
- Connecticut: 5
- Delaware: 1
- Florida: 28
- Georgia: 14
- Hawaii: 2
- Idaho: 2
- Illinois: 17
- Indiana: 9
- Iowa: 4
- Kansas: 4
- Kentucky: 6
- Louisiana: 6
- Maine: 2
- Maryland: 8
- Massachusetts: 9
- Michigan: 13
- Minnesota: 8
- Mississippi: 4
- Missouri: 8
- Montana: 2
- Nebraska: 3
- Nevada: 4
- New Hampshire: 2
- New Jersey: 12
- New Mexico: 3
- New York: 26
- North Carolina: 14
- North Dakota: 1
- Ohio: 15
- Oklahoma: 5
- Oregon: 6
- Pennsylvania: 17
- Rhode Island: 2
- South Carolina: 7
- South Dakota: 1
- Tennessee: 9
- Texas: 38
- Utah: 4
- Vermont: 1
- Virginia: 11
- Washington: 10
- West Virginia: 2
- Wisconsin: 8
- Wyoming: 1
Who controls the House of Representatives?
After the 2022 midterm elections, Republicans took control of the House. 218 votes are needed to form a majority. However, many expected the GOP to sweep across the country and in the end, the majority gained by the Republicans was small, making it very difficult for the party to keep the caucus together with a majority of only 222 votes. Additionally, since the election, scandals and the passing of representatives has further shrunk that majority to 220 votes.
Once the new Congressional class was seated, the GOP was tasked with electing a Speaker of the House which unleashed an internal drama within the party. Eventually, California Congressman Kevin McCarthy was elected by his caucus after making major concessions to the more extreme members of the party. This concessions led to his eventual removal from office when he attempted to work with Democrats to pass a spending bill to keep the government open. McCarthy gave up his seat earlier, further shrinking the GOP majority in the chamber he had served in since 2007.
The California Congressman was replaced by Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson, a strong supporter of former-president Donald Trump, who was able to receive wide enough support from within the GOP caucus to take control of the gavel.