United States House elections, 1992

United States House of Representatives elections, 1992

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November 3, 1992

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All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives
218 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Tom Foley	Bob Michel
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	Washington-5th	Illinois-18th
Last election	267 seats	167 seats
Seats won	258	176
Seat change	9	9
Popular vote	48,654,189	43,812,063
Percentage	50.1%	45.1%
Swing	2.0%	0.8%

Results:

Democratic hold

Democratic pickup

Republican hold

Republican pickup

Independent hold

Speaker before election

Tom Foley
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Tom Foley
Democratic

The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections coincided with the 1992 presidential election, in which Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore were elected as President and Vice President, respectively, defeating Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.

Despite this, however, the Democrats lost a net of nine seats in the House to the Republicans, in part due to redistricting following the 1990 Census. The Democrats nonetheless retained a majority in the House and Senate.

Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

Key to party abbreviations:

AI=American Independent, C=Constitution, D=Democrat, G=Green, I=Independent, IP=Independence Party, L=Libertarian, PF=Peace and Freedom, R=Republican, T=U.S. Taxpayers Party.

The delegation increased from 45 to 52 seats. To create the seven-seat net gain, eight seats were added, designated as: the 10th, 11th, 25th, 33rd, 41st, 43rd, 49th, and 50th districts, and one seat was lost through the merger of two seats: the former 41st and 44th districts merged into the redesignated 51st district, in an election contest.

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