Just how tight was the battle for control of the House? Well, consider that if just three additional races had broken in Democrats’ favor, we would have had to wait for nearly a month on vote counting in California to determine which party had won the majority.
And if that had happened, we might still have been waiting on leadership elections for both Democrats and Republicans. We could still have been waiting on the 2025 legislative calendar to be released. And President-elect Donald Trump certainly wouldn’t have been able to quickly tap Reps. Elise Stefanik and Michael Waltz for key positions in his next administration.
With Democratic challenger Adam Gray unseating GOP Rep. John Duarte in California’s 13th District, the results of 2024 House elections are now final. House Democrats ended up netting one additional seat, holding Republicans to a 220-215 majority, even as Trump won back the presidency and Republicans claimed control of the Senate.
