United States House elections, 2002

United States House of Representatives elections, 2002

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November 5, 2002

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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	Dennis Hastert	Dick Gephardt
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Illinois-14th	Missouri-3rd
Last election	221 seats	212 seats
Seats won	229	205
Seat change	8	7
Popular vote	37,332,552	33,795,885
Percentage	50.0%	45.2%
Swing	2.4%	1.9%

Results:

Democratic hold

Democratic pickup

Republican hold

Republican pickup

Independent hold

Speaker before election

Dennis Hastert
Republican

Elected Speaker

Dennis Hastert
Republican

The Elections for the United States House of Representatives on 5 November 2002 was in the middle of President George W. Bush's first term. Although it was a midterm election, the Republican Party gained a net eight seats, solidifying their majority. Together with gains made in the Senate, it was one of the few mid-term elections that the party in control of the White House increased their number of seats in the House (the other such mid-term elections were in 1934 and 1998).

Three special elections were held apart from those on November 5. The elected winners would serve the remainder of the incumbent Congress and face re-election in November.

Key to party abbreviations: AI=American Independent, C=Constitution, D=Democratic, G=Green, I=Independent, IP=Independence Party, L=Libertarian, R=Republican

The state gained two seats in reapportionment.

The state gained one seat in reapportionment.