However, as of early Wednesday morning European time, there has been no clear trend. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have so far been able to clearly win the midterms.
This article is regarding the elections to the House of Representatives go. When will come first Results? How do they turn out? Here are all the details.
Results USA: Which party will win the House of Representatives?
The first Results to choose the House of Representatives are here. Accordingly, the Democrats might win 187 seats and the Republicans 203 seats. However, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives will be up for re-election. 45 places are still awarded to Democrats or Republicans. To get a majority in the House, a party needs at least 218 seats.
Elections 2022: when will the results be known for the midterms?
The first question most people will ask themselves on November 8th is: When are there results? Here you have to be particularly patient in Germany: in German time it will probably be relatively late at night until the first results are available. The states have different opening times for the polling stations, which is also due to the different time zones. The first polling stations on the US east coast open on Tuesday at 6 a.m. (local time; 12.00 p.m. CET). The first polling stations are closed at midnight German time, the last ones only close at 6 a.m. German time.
After the polling stations have closed, the counting begins. The first results are expected on election night in the United States, but it might all last until the early hours of the morning. For most Germans, this will mean that the results will come in during the night, and then there will be clarity early on Wednesday morning.
House of Representatives: How many seats do states have?
Unlike the Senate, not all states have the same number of representatives in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, each US state has two senators – so there are exactly 100 senators in total. sit in the House of Representatives the number of deputies varies depending on the population. The more people live in a state, the more representatives the state has. However, the total number of MPs is fixed at 435. Every ten years, a census is carried out in the USA to determine what the population figures in the states look like – in order to then possibly adjust the distribution of seats. The last adjustment took place in 2020. In 2022, the distribution of seats is thus as follows:
- Alabama: 7 MPs
- Alaska: 1 MP
- Arizona: 9 MPs
- Arkansas: 4 MPs
- Colorado: 8 MPs
- Connecticut: 5 MPs
- Delaware: 1 MP
- Florida: 28 MPs
- Georgia: 14 MPs
- Hawaii: 2 MPs
- Idaho: 2 MPs
- Illinois: 17 MPs
- Indiana: 9 MPs
- Iowa: 4 MPs
- California: 52 MPs
- Kansas: 4 MPs
- Kentucky: 6 MPs
- Louisiana: 6 MPs
- Maine: 2 MPs
- Maryland: 8 MPs
- Massachusetts: 9 MPs
- Michigan: 13 MPs
- Minnesota: 8 MPs
- Mississippi: 4 MPs
- Missouri: 8 MPs
- Montana: 2 MPs
- Nebraska: 3 MPs
- Nevada: 4 MPs
- New Hampshire: 2 MPs
- New Jersey: 12 MPs
- New Mexico: 3 MPs
- New York: 26 MPs
- North Carolina: 14 MPs
- North Dakota: 1 MP
- Ohio: 15 MPs
- Oklahoma: 5 MPs
- Oregon: 6 MPs
- Pennsylvania: 17 MPs
- Rhode Island: 2 MPs
- South Carolina: 7 MPs
- South Dakota: 1 MP
- Tennessee: 9 MPs
- Texas: 38 MPs
- Utah: 4 MPs
- Vermont: 1 MP
- Virginia: 11 MPs
- Washington: 10 MPs
- West Virginia: 2 MPs
- Wisconsin: 8 MPs
- Wyoming: 1 MP
Elections USA 2022: This is where it gets particularly exciting
The elections in the House of Representatives are therefore less regarding entire states and more regarding the constituencies – called districts – which are contested. It is rare for a state to have all of its allocated House seats occupied by one party. As it is bipartisan in Congress is regarding a few individual seats, in order to get a majority, a lot is decided in individual districts. According to current surveys, the 2022 elections will be particularly exciting in the following districts:
- Alaska
- Arizona 2nd District
- Iowa 3rd District
- Kalifornien 22nd & 27th District
- Kansas 3rd District
- New Mexico 2nd District
- New York 19th District
- Oregon 5th District
- Pennsylvania 7th District
- Rhode Island 2nd District
- Texas 15th District
- Virginia 2nd District