U.S. House
Reapportionment Winners and Losers Through the Years
Pennsylvania (-17 seats) and New York (-16 seats) have lost the largest number of seats from their peak U.S. House delegations; the Keystone State is slated to lose a seat again for a 9th consecutive census period
Read MoreWill the GOP Sweep North and South Dakota’s U.S. House Seats?
Republicans have never carried both single-member at-large districts in the same election cycle; Democrats have won 25 of 29 U.S. House contests in the Dakotas since 1982
Read MoreHas Gerrymandering Lost Its Punch?
Current redistricting period has produced the closest relationship between votes received and seats won by party across the nation’s 435 U.S. House districts since the 1940s
Read MorePAC Money Comprises Only 5 Percent of Bachmann’s Q1 2010 Fundraising
Special interest PAC contributions fall for 4th consecutive quarter as percentage of Bachmann’s total fundraising
Read MoreIs the Democratic Party ‘Overrepresented’ in the U.S. House?
Democratic candidates have won 772 more U.S. House seats since 1942 than their cumulative ‘proportional vote share,’ or 23 seats per election cycle; +27 seats in 2008
Read MoreCan Minnesota Republicans Win a 4th U.S. House Seat in 2010?
Minnesota GOP has failed to net a U.S. House seat in 9 of 15 election cycles in which the Republican Party made gains nationally since 1944
Read MoreBachmann Sets New Benchmark in Minnesota Politics with Q1 2010 Fundraising Haul
Bachmann outraises Clark by 60 percent in Q1 2010; sets new Minnesota fundraising record for the 1st quarter of an election year
Read MoreHow Do Members of Congress Use the American Flag in Their Reelection Campaigns?
Republican U.S. Representatives are 36 percent more likely to incorporate the American flag on campaign websites than Democrats
Read MoreWhich States Have the Most Proportional Female Representation in Congress?
Women are still proportionally underrepresented in 48 states, with 19 states and 22 percent of the nation’s population without a female U.S. Senator or Representative
Read MoreWill 2010 Be the Year of the Woman in Minnesota’s U.S. House Races?
Up to eight female U.S. House candidates could be on the ballot this November – the highest in Gopher State history
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