Over the past decade, the percentage of U.S. House of Representatives elections with only a Democrat or a Republican on the ballot has dropped in a majority of the election cycles and below the past century’s average. Here is the recent breakdown:
- 2014: 17.5% (36 races without a Democratic candidate and 40 without a Republican)
- 2016: 14.0% (27 races without a Democratic candidate and 34 without a Republican)
- 2018: 9.4% (3 races without a Democratic candidate and 38 without a Republican)
- 2020: 6.2% (8 races without a Democratic candidate and 19 without a Republican)
- 2022: 8.0% (23 races without a Democratic candidate and 12 without a Republican)
In comparison, 14.4% of all U.S. House general elections from 1920 to 2018 had only one major party candidate.
