The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections will be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections, to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states, as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories. Special elections may also be held on various dates throughout 2024. Numerous other federal, state, and local elections, including the U.S. presidential election and elections to the Senate, will also be held on this date. The winners of this election will serve in the 119th United States Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2020 United States census.

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2024 United States House of Representatives elections

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All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives[lower-alpha 1] 218 seats needed for a majority
Leader Mike Johnson Hakeem Jeffries Party Republican Democratic Leader since October 25, 2023 January 3, 2023 Leader's seat Louisiana 4th New York 8th Last election 222 seats, 50.6% 213 seats, 47.8% Current seats 217 212 Seats needed 1 6
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Incumbent Speaker Mike Johnson Republican

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The House Republican Conference has been led by Mike Johnson since October 2023, following the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House and the speaker election which elected him. He is the first congressman from Louisiana to be elected Speaker of the House.^[1]

With the election of Hakeem Jeffries as leader of the House Democratic Caucus, this is set to be the first House election since 2002 in which the Democratic Party will not be led by Nancy Pelosi. Jeffries is the first African American in the history of Congress to serve as leader of either party, and the first congressman from New York to do so since Bertrand Snell's retirement in 1938.^[2]

The election is expected to be highly competitive, with forecasts suggesting less than a 5 seat difference between the two parties.^[3] The competitive nature of the election partially stems from the 118th United States Congress being considered among the least productive since the 72nd Congress of 1931 to 1933, which has contributed to a 13% approval rating.^[4] The 118th Congress is also considered to be a dramatic one, with events such as the January 2023 speakership election, the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis, the removal of Kevin McCarthy from House Speaker, the October 2023 speakership election and the expulsion of George Santos. If the Republican Party fails to keep control of the House, this would be the first time since the 1954 House elections that a party loses House control after a single congressional term.

Prior to the elections, several states have seen challenges to their congressional district maps that were put in place during the redistricting cycle brought upon by the results of the 2020 census. In Alabama, a special master drew a new map after the state legislature submitted a map that did not comply with the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court ruled their original map violated the Voting Rights Act in Allen v. Milligan, requiring the creation of a second predominantly Black district.^[5][6] Similarly, a judge in Georgia ruled that Georgia's maps were illegally racially gerrymandered and the Georgia General Assembly drew a new map that added a new predominantly Black district.^[7][8] In Louisiana, the Supreme Court's decision not to intervene in Robinson v. Ardoin led to a second majority Black district being drawn in that state as well.^[9]

As of April 2024, a total of 44 representatives and 2 non-voting delegates (25 Democrats and 21 Republicans) have announced their retirement, 18 of whom (11 Democrats and 7 Republicans) are retiring to run for other offices.

At least one seat will be vacant on the day of the general election due to resignations in 2024, which will not be filled until the beginning of the next Congress.

One incumbent lost renomination in the primary elections.

This is a list of congressional seats that voted for one party in the 2020 presidential election and another in the 2022 House elections.^[58]

In the United States, all states with multiple congressional districts are required to revise their district maps following each decennial census to account for population changes. In 2024, most states will use the same districts created in the redistricting cycle following the 2020 census, which were first used in the 2022 elections. However, maps have changed or will change in several states, often due to legal challenges made on the basis of political or racial gerrymandering.

As of April 2024, the following states have had new maps enacted or have had the old districts maintained following previous speculation that they may have been changed.

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Summary of mid-decade changes to congressional districts in advance of the 2024 election cycle^[60]

State (linked to summaries below)	Status	Notes	Ref	Change in partisanship
				D	C	R
Alabama	New districts enacted on October 5, 2023	A federal district court selected a new map, creating a second majority-Black district in the state following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Allen v. Milligan.	[61]	1		1
Georgia	New districts enacted on December 28, 2023	A federal district judge ruled on October 26, 2023, that Georgia's districts are racially gerrymandered and ordered a new map with an additional majority-Black district be proposed by December 8; the Georgia Legislature convened a special session on November 29 to redraw the map. Despite a challenge, the proposed map was upheld.	[62]
Kentucky	Previous districts left in place	The Kentucky Supreme Court heard arguments in September 2023 in a suit alleging that the state legislature violated the state constitution by creating a partisan gerrymander in the state's congressional map by moving the state capital Frankfort to the heavily Republican 1st district; on December 14, 2023, the court affirmed a lower court ruling resulting in the case being dismissed.	[63]
Louisiana	New districts enacted on January 22, 2024	Following Allen v. Milligan regarding Alabama's maps, the U.S. Supreme Court unfroze a similar case, Robinson v. Ardoin, alleging racial gerrymandering in Louisiana's districts; following a federal district judge's order in the case, Louisiana legislators passed a new map, creating a second majority Black congressional district. On January 22, Governor Jeff Landry signed the new map into law.[64]	[65][66]	1		1
New Mexico	Previous districts left in place	New Mexico's map faced a lawsuit alleging partisan gerrymandering diluting the voting power of Republicans. A state judge ruled to keep the current map in place, and that decision was upheld by the New Mexico Supreme Court in a ruling on November 27, 2023.	[67]
New York	New districts enacted on February 28, 2024	After a lower state court struck down the state legislature's proposed map in 2022 and enacted a map drawn by a special master, the New York Court of Appeals (the court of last resort) ruled on December 12, 2023, that those court-drawn districts were only meant to be temporary and that the Independent Redistricting Commission must draw new districts in advance of the 2024 cycle. On February 26, 2024, the New York State Legislature rejected the maps drawn by the Commission and instead passed its own map resulting in the 3rd, 18th, and 22nd congressional districts becoming more Democratic leaning while the 1st becomes more Republican leaning. Kathy Hochul signed the map later that day.	[68][69]	1	1
North Carolina	New districts enacted on October 25, 2023	The General Assembly passed a new map placing three incumbent Democrats in Republican-leaning districts after Republicans gained a majority on the state supreme court in 2022 and ruled in April 2023 that claims of partisan gerrymandering are non-justiciable. The case is likely to be further litigated after 2024.	[70]	2	1	3
Ohio	Previous districts left in place	Following the retirement of the swing justice, Maureen O'Connor, and the election of a Republican majority, the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed challenges to its map in September 2023, maintaining the map it had established after previously finding in 2022 that the districts drawn by the state legislature violated the Ohio Constitution.	[71]
Net change (as of April 1, 2024)				1	2	1

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There are six special elections scheduled in 2024 to the 118th United States Congress, listed here by date and district.