[EL] does anyone know if any compilation has been made of Dem & Rep national total for US House?

[Noah Lindell]

Another fun statistic (from my own calculations, so subject to my own error): only seven incumbents lost reelection on Tuesday. Five lost in the primary, and 42 didn’t run again. Among the 393 incumbents who chose to run again, 97% were reelected. A bit of a disconnect from the “voters want to drain the swamp” narrative we’ve heard about this election.


Noah B. Lindell
Legal Fellow, Campaign Legal Center
J.D. 2016, Yale Law School
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> On Nov 12, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Rob Richie <rr at fairvote.org> wrote:
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> Great source is Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman - -see
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oArjXSYeg40u4qQRR93qveN2N1UELQ6v04_mamrKg9g/edit#gid=0 <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oArjXSYeg40u4qQRR93qveN2N1UELQ6v04_mamrKg9g/edit#gid=0>
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> When all the votes counted, margin likely to be a bit over 2 million and the GOP vote share a tad under 50%.
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> Notable stats from elections to "the people's House""
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> * 218 Republicans (a majority of the House) won by at least 12.7%.
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> * a grad total of 12 seats changed partisan control in a year when voters seemingly wanted to vote for change
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> * FairVote's simple forecasting model projected more than two years before the election (and just 2 days after the November 2014 election) winners in more than 360 races - and were 100% accurate
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> Rob Richie
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Charles Stewart III <cstewart at mit.edu <mailto:cstewart at mit.edu>> wrote:
> One count I’ve seen from a group that keeps track of such things (sorry to be mysterious) is that the Dems currently have 55m votes to GOP 59m votes. -cs <>
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> I will be interested to see the national Dem total for US House, and Rep.
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> For Libertarians, even with only 122 nominees out of 436 districts, Libertarians set a new national total, almost 1,700,000, with votes still not counted in most states.  And that was with all Libertarians excluded from the ballot in the top-two states, California and Washington.
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> By the way, South Dakota voters this week defeated measure V, which would have imposed only two candidates on the November ballot, and had no party labels except for president.
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