How House Republicans Barely Eked Out A Majority

Inside Elections reports:

Not only did a Red Wave fail to materialize, but Republicans barely cleared the lowest of bars they had set for themselves at the beginning of the cycle: winning back the House of Representatives.

The GOP needed a net gain of five seats to win back the majority. While the party did net nine seats, in the five closest GOP wins in the country, the victorious Republican candidates outpaced their Democratic opponents by a combined 6,670 votes.

With 107,381,703 total votes cast in 2022 House elections, that means Republicans won the House majority by just 0.006 percent of the House popular vote — despite winning the nationwide vote by 2.8 percent.

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Had Democrats won just 5 more seats, they would have held the House. The combined margin in the 5 closest GOP wins: 6,670 votes.

That’s a vanishingly small fraction—0.006%—of the total House votes, and it underscores how narrow the new GOP majority is.https://t.co/Cl70g8xAQv

— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) December 13, 2022