In 2022 midterms, nearly all Senate election results again matched states’ presidential votes
Only one of this year’s 35 Senate elections didn’t go the same way as the state’s 2020 presidential vote. The exception was Wisconsin.
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Only one of this year’s 35 Senate elections didn’t go the same way as the state’s 2020 presidential vote. The exception was Wisconsin.
The new House will have 80 members who’ve served in the military, or 18.4% of members. That’s up from 75, or 17.2%, in the 117th Congress.
21% of the roughly 1,000 candidates for U.S. Senate, House or state governor on the fall ballot claim some degree of military experience.
In the U.S. House, Freedom Caucus members and allies have less seniority than other Republicans and are more likely to come from the South.
In the event that a Senate seat becomes vacant, governors in 46 states have the power to appoint a temporary replacement.
Even as younger generations gain representation in Congress, older generations still make up the majority of senators and representatives.
Women make up just over a quarter of all members of the 117th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
We developed this explainer to help people understand how, and why, the complex U.S. electoral process is even more so this time around.
Turnout in this year’s primaries for Congress and most state governorships surged compared with the last midterms in 2014, particularly among Democrats. Nearly a fifth (19.6%) of registered voters – about 37 million – cast ballots in primary elections for the U.S. House of Representatives – a 56% increase over the 23.7 million who voted in 2014’s House primaries. Turnout that year was 13.7% of registered voters.
The 2018 midterm elections significantly boosted the number of Millennials and Generation Xers in the lower chamber.
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