United States House of Representatives election 2020 — Results
Election day: November 3, 2020
- Democratic Party: 50.30%, 222 seats
- Republican Party: 47.20%, 213 seats
About this election
The electoral system
All 435 seats were contested, each by first-past-the-post in a single-member district, with 218 needed for a majority. As with every House election, this page shows the national popular vote and the chamber's resulting composition rather than a single regional map, because the result is the sum of hundreds of separately drawn district contests.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 3.10 points separated Democratic Party from Republican Party — 4,656,114 votes.
- Democratic Party converted 50.30% of the vote into 222 of 435 seats (51.03%), 0.73 points more than its vote share.
- Democratic Party moved −3.11 points against the 2018 House of Representatives election (53.41% → 50.30%).
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result
- Why Turnout Figures Disagree — why two sources publish different turnout for one election