2014 United States House of Representatives elections


The 2014 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 4, 2014, in the middle of President Barack Obama's second term in office. Elections were held for all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, representing the 50 states. Elections were also held for the non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and four of the five territories. The winners of these elections served in the 114th United States Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States Census. The Republicans won 16 seats from Democrats, while three Republican-held seats turned Democratic. The Republicans achieved their largest majority in the House since 1928 due to a sizeable Republican wave. Combined with the Republican gains made in 2010, the total number of Democratic-held House seats lost under Barack Obama's presidency in midterm elections rose to 77 with these elections. This marked the highest number of House seats lost under a two-term president of the same party since Harry S. Truman. With 36.4% of eligible voters voting, the voter turnout was the lowest since 1942.

Results summary

Source:

Voter demographics

Source: CNN exit poll

Incumbents who retired

Forty-one representatives retired from their seats.

Democrats

Sixteen Democrats retired from their seats.
  1. : Ed Pastor: Retired
  2. : George Miller: Retired
  3. : Henry Waxman: Retired
  4. : Gloria Negrete McLeod: Retired to run for the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors
  5. : Colleen Hanabusa: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  6. : Bruce Braley: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  7. : Mike Michaud: Retired to run for Governor of Maine
  8. : John Dingell: Retired
  9. : Gary Peters: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  10. : Rush Holt Jr.: Retired
  11. : Carolyn McCarthy: Retired
  12. : Bill Owens: Retired
  13. : Mike McIntyre: Retired
  14. : Allyson Schwartz: Retired to run for Governor of Pennsylvania
  15. : Jim Matheson: Retired
  16. Virgin Islands: Donna Christian-Christensen: Retired to run for Governor of the Virgin Islands.
  17. : Jim Moran: Retired

    Republicans

Twenty-five Republicans retired from their seats.
  1. : Spencer Bachus: Retired
  2. : Tim Griffin: Retired to run for Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas
  3. : Tom Cotton: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  4. : Buck McKeon: Retired
  5. : Gary Miller: Retired
  6. : John B. T. Campbell III: Retired
  7. : Cory Gardner: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  8. : Jack Kingston: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  9. : Paul Broun: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  10. : Phil Gingrey: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  11. : Tom Latham: Retired
  12. : Bill Cassidy: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  13. : Dave Camp: Retired
  14. : Mike Rogers: Retired
  15. : Michele Bachmann: Retired
  16. : Steve Daines: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  17. : Jon Runyan: Retired
  18. : Howard Coble: Retired
  19. : James Lankford: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  20. : Jim Gerlach: Retired
  21. : Steve Stockman: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  22. : Frank Wolf: Retired
  23. : Doc Hastings: Retired
  24. : Shelley Moore Capito: Retired to run for U.S. Senator
  25. : Tom Petri: Retired

    Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

  1. : Vance McAllister lost a Nonpartisan blanket primary to Jamie Mayo and Ralph Abraham. Abraham then won the runoff. Republican hold.
  2. : John F. Tierney lost renomination to Seth Moulton, who then won the general election. Democratic hold.
  3. : Kerry Bentivolio lost renomination to David Trott, who then won the general election. Republican hold.
  4. : Ralph Hall, lost renomination to John Ratcliffe, who then won the general election. Republican hold.
  5. : Eric Cantor lost renomination to Dave Brat, who then won the general election. Republican hold.

    In the general election

Republicans had a net gain of nine seats, taken from Democrats.

Democrats

Eleven Democrats lost re-election to Republicans.
  1. : Ron Barber lost to Martha McSally.
  2. : Joe Garcia lost to Carlos Curbelo.
  3. : John Barrow lost to Rick W. Allen.
  4. : Brad Schneider lost to Bob Dold.
  5. : Bill Enyart lost to Mike Bost.
  6. : Steven Horsford lost to Cresent Hardy.
  7. : Carol Shea-Porter lost to Frank Guinta.
  8. : Tim Bishop lost to Lee Zeldin.
  9. : Dan Maffei lost to John Katko.
  10. : Pete Gallego lost to Will Hurd.
  11. : Nick Rahall lost to Evan Jenkins.
  12. American Samoa: Eni Faleomavaega lost to Amata Coleman Radewagen.

    Republicans

Two Republicans lost re-election to Democrats.
  1. : Steve Southerland lost to Gwen Graham.
  2. : Lee Terry lost to Brad Ashford.

    Open seat gains

Republicans had a net gain of four seats previously held by Democrats.

Democratic to Republican

Five open seats previously held by Democrats were won by Republicans.
  1. : Bruce Braley retired to run for U.S. Senate. Seat won by Rod Blum.
  2. : Mike Michaud retired to run for Governor of Maine. Seat won by Bruce Poliquin.
  3. : Bill Owens retired. Seat won by Elise Stefanik.
  4. : Mike McIntyre retired. Seat won by David Rouzer.
  5. : Jim Matheson retired. Seat won by Mia Love.

    Republican to Democratic

One open seat previously held by a Republican was won by a Democrat.
  1. : Gary Miller retired. Seat won by Pete Aguilar.

    Close races

Where the margin was less than ten percent.

  48. Competitive districts

The following are the predictions for House districts where at least one out of the Cook Political Report, Daily Kos Elections, the Rothenberg Political Report, Sabato's Crystal Ball and Real Clear Politics did not agree that the district was "safe Democratic" or "safe Republican." Incumbents not running for re-election have parentheses around their names, while incumbents with a caret sought re-election, but were defeated in the primary election. Note that safeness of a district is not necessarily a prediction as to outcome.
195 seats were viewed as "safe Republican" and 159 as "safe Democratic" by all five of these sources.
Voters had the choice of only one major political party in more than one in six U.S. House elections nationwide, including more than one in four races in the Southern region.
DistrictCPVIIncumbent2012Cook
Daily Kos Elections
Rothenberg
Sabato
Real Clear Politics
Winner
Don Young 63.9% RYoung
Ann Kirkpatrick 48.8% DKirkpatrick
Ron Barber 50.4% DMcSally
Kyrsten Sinema 48.5% DSinema
55.2% R/Tilt RHill
59.5% RWesterman
John Garamendi 53.7% DGaramendi
Ami Bera 51.1% DBera
Jerry McNerney 54.1% DMcNerney
David Valadao 59.9% RValadao
Lois Capps 54.8% DCapps
Julia Brownley 51.7% DBrownley
55.2% RAguilar
Raul Ruiz 51.4% DRuiz
Scott Peters 50.2% DPeters
Mike Coffman 48.7% R/Tilt R/Tilt RCoffman
Elizabeth Esty 51.5% DEsty
Steve Southerland 52.7% RGraham
Patrick Murphy 50.3% DMurphy
Joe Garcia 53.6% D/Tilt RCurbelo
John Barrow 53.7% DAllen
54.6% DTakai
Tammy Duckworth 54.7% DDuckworth
Brad Schneider 50.5% DDold
Bill Foster 58.1% DFoster
Bill Enyart 51.5% D/Tilt RBost
Rodney L. Davis 46.6% RDavis
Cheri Bustos 53.3% DBustos
Jackie Walorski 49.0% RWalorski
56.9% DBlum
Dave Loebsack 55.6% DLoebsack
52.3% RYoung
Steve King 53.2% RKing
Lynn Jenkins 57.0% RJenkins
Kevin Yoder 68.4% RYoder
58.1% DPoliquin
John K. Delaney 58.8% DDelaney
John F. Tierney^ 48.3% DMoulton
William R. Keating 58.3% DKeating
Dan Benishek 48.2% RBenishek
63.1% RMoolenaar
Fred Upton 54.6% RUpton
Tim Walberg 53.3% RWalberg
58.6% RBishop
Kerry Bentivolio 50.7% RTrott
Tim Walz 57.6% DWalz
Collin Peterson 60.4% DPeterson
Rick Nolan 54.5% DNolan
53.2% RZinke
Lee Terry 51.2% RAshford
Joe Heck 50.4% RHeck
Steven Horsford 50.1% DHardy
Carol Shea-Porter 49.7% DGuinta
Ann McLane Kuster 50.2% DKuster
53.8% RMacArthur
Scott Garrett 55.5% RGarrett
Tim Bishop 52.2% DZeldin
61.8% DRice
Michael Grimm 52.8% R/Tilt RGrimm
Sean Patrick Maloney 51.7% DMaloney
Chris Gibson 53.4% RGibson
50.2% DStefanik
Tom Reed 52.1% RReed
Dan Maffei 48.4% DKatko
50.1% DRouzer
Kevin Cramer 54.9% RCramer
Bill Johnson 53.3% RJohnson
David Joyce 54.3% RJoyce
57.1% RCostello
Pete Gallego 50.3% DHurd
49.3% DLove
58.8% RComstock
Suzan DelBene 53.6% DDelBene
69.8% R/Tilt RMooney
Nick Rahall 53.9% D/Tilt RJenkins
62.1% RGrothman
Sean Duffy 56.1% RDuffy
DistrictCPVIIncumbent2012CookDaily Kos ElectionsRothenbergSabatoReal Clear PoliticsWinner

Special elections

Five special elections were held in 2014.

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Non-voting delegates