Data Spotlight - House of Representatives by State
Key
- Dem = Democrats in the House of Representatives
- Repub = Republicans in the House of Representatives
- Adv = Majority Party - Minority Party Representative Differential
- Adv % = Majority Party Representative Advantage, by percentage
- Dem PV 2024 % = Democrat Party Candidate Popular Vote % in 2024 Presidental Election
- Rep PV 2024 % = Republican Party Candidate Popular Vote % in 2024 Presidental Election
- PV % Diff = Majority Party Popular Vote Advantage, by percentage
Breakdown
- 7 out of the top 10 states in Rep Differential are Democrat states with a combined congressional advantage of +84 to the Republican congressional advantage of +31.
- The advantage in California (+34) is greater than all 3 of the Republican states combined - Texas, Florida and Tennessee.
- 10 Democrat states have no congressional representation for the Republican minorities with a combined +28 advantage.
- 12 Republican states have no congressional representation for the Democrat minorities with a combined +30 advantage.
- 3 Democrat states have only 1 congressional representation for the Republican minorities with a combined +12 advantage.
- 5 Republican states have only 1 congressional representation for the Democrat minorities with a combined +20 advantage.
- The state congressional advantage ratio is 31-18 in favor of the Republicans, with 2 Democrat states in a stalemate in the HoR (Colorado, Minnesota)
- The 18 states with a Democrat majority hold a 150-40 HoR advantage (+110, 6.1/state)
- The 31 states with a Republican majority hold a 179-66 HoR advantage (+113, 3.6/state)
- The only state to have a split in HoR advantage vs Popular Vote for the 2024 Election is Nevad. They have a 3-1 Democrat advantage in the HoR but voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election, 50.6%-47.5%.
- 5 Democrat states had a 60+ popular vote majority, by percentage (DC, VT, MD, MA, HI)
- 12 Republican states had a 60+ popular vote majority, by percentage (WY, WV, ND, ID, OK, AL, KY, TN, AR, SD, MS, LA)
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