U.S. Democrats likely to win at least 260 House seats ... Most since 1990

[Financial News] The Democrats have secured more than half of the seats in the U.S. House, winning at least 250, and could ultimately reach around 260, CNN reported on the 5th (local time).
CNN said that if the Democrats win all the districts where they are currently leading in close races, they would hold 264 seats, while the Republican Party would have 171. That would be the Democrats’ largest number of seats in 36 years, since the 1991–1993 Congress, when they won 267 seats.
If the Democrats take at least 260 of the 435 seats in the House, they would hold the largest majority since the 1990 election and surpass the Republican Party’s record number of seats since the Great Depression.
CNN has so far projected the Democrats to win 253 seats, 38 more than in the 2024 election. The Republican Party has 156 seats, 97 fewer than the Democrats.
The Democrats are also leading in many of the remaining 26 competitive districts, including Colorado’s 4th District, Florida’s 9th District and South Carolina’s 1st District.
That figure is higher than the 257 House seats the Democrats won in the 2008 election, when Barack Obama was elected president. It also surpasses the Republican Party’s record 247 seats in the House, set in 2014, since the Great Depression began in 1929.
However, the total number of seats recaptured is expected to be lower than in the 2010 election, when the Republican Party took more than 60 seats.
CNN explained that Republicans had very few seats at the time in the wake of the Democrats’ landslide victory in 2008, and had many Republican-leaning districts to target, enabling them to recapture a large number of seats.
In the U.S. midterm elections held on the 3rd, the Democrats recaptured majorities in both the House and Senate at the same time for the first time in 20 years, since 2006, during the George W. Bush administration.
 


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