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United States House of Representatives elections, 1986

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253 seats
  
182 seats

5
  
5

54.3%
  
44.4%

Start date
  
November 4, 1986

258
  
177

32,447,021
  
26,533,178

2.2%
  
2.6%

United States House of Representatives elections, 1986

Winner
  
Jim Wright

The 1986 United States House of Representatives elections was held on November 4, 1986, in the middle of President Ronald Reagan's second term in office while he was still relatively popular with the American public. As in most midterm elections, the President's party—in this case, the Republican Party — lost seats, with the Democratic Party gaining a net of five seats and cementing its majority. These results were not as dramatic as those in the Senate, where the Republicans lost control of the chamber to the Democrats. Notable freshmen include future House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL).

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Overall results

Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

Retiring incumbents

Forty incumbents retired.

Democrats

Nineteen incumbent Democrats retired.

  • Alabama's 7th congressional district: Richard Shelby: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Colorado's 2nd congressional district: Tim Wirth: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Florida's 2nd congressional district: Don Fuqua
  • Georgia's 5th congressional district: Wyche Fowler: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Iowa's 6th congressional district: Berkley Bedell
  • Louisiana's 7th congressional district: John Breaux: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Louisiana's 8th congressional district: Catherine Small Long
  • Maryland's 3rd congressional district: Barbara Mikulski: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Maryland's 7th congressional district: Parren Mitchell
  • Maryland's 8th congressional district: Michael D. Barnes: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Massachusetts's 8th congressional district: Tip O'Neill
  • Nevada's 1st congressional district: Harry Reid: To run for U.S.Senate
  • New York 34: Stan Lundine: To Lieutenant Governor
  • North Carolina 3: Charles Orville Whitley
  • Ohio's 14th congressional district: John F. Seiberling
  • Oklahoma's 1st congressional district: James Robert Jones: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Oregon's 4th congressional district: Jim Weaver: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district: Robert W. Edgar: To run for U.S.Senate
  • South Dakota at-large: Tom Daschle: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Republicans

    Twenty-one incumbent Republicans retired.

  • Arizona's 1st congressional district: John McCain: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Arizona's 4th congressional district: Eldon Rudd
  • California's 2nd congressional district: Eugene A. Chappie
  • California's 12th congressional district: Ed Zschau: To run for U.S.Senate
  • California's 21st congressional district: Bobbi Fiedler: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Colorado's 5th congressional district: Ken Kramer: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Illinois's 4th congressional district: George M. O'Brien
  • Illinois's 14th congressional district: John E. Grotberg
  • Indiana's 5th congressional district: Elwood Hillis
  • Iowa's 3rd congressional district: T. Cooper Evans
  • Kentucky's 4th congressional district: Gene Snyder
  • Louisiana's 6th congressional district: Henson Moore: To run for U.S.Senate
  • Maine's 1st congressional district: John R. McKernan, Jr.: To run for Governor
  • Maryland's 4th congressional district: Marjorie Holt
  • New York 1: William Carney
  • Ohio's 8th congressional district: Tom Kindness: To run for U.S.Senate
  • South Carolina 1: Thomas F. Hartnett: To run for Lieutenant Governor
  • South Carolina 4: Carroll A. Campbell, Jr.: To run for Governor
  • Texas's 21st congressional district: Tom Loeffler: To run for Governor
  • Utah's 2nd congressional district: David Smith Monson
  • Virginia's 2nd congressional district: G. William Whitehurst
  • Complete list of states

    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.

    References

    United States House of Representatives elections, 1986 Wikipedia