Talk:2022 United States House of Representatives elections

Map colors

I think that new districts or districts without an incumbent should have a light gray colour, rather than blue or red.

New York's 3rd congressional district should count as a NYC seat for the map on the side of the page.

The Seat Republican George Santos (who lives in Queens) picked up contains parts of Queens, and therefore NYC, meaning that the Republican Party now has two of the NYC Congressional seats but the Wikipedia maps still shows only NY-11 as the only R seat.

Error

Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional District is not 11th, but instead 12th. Please rectify, thanks. 101.127.78.139 (talk) 04:54, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

After the redistricting in California, post-2020 US census, her city San Francisco is now in California's 11th congressional district. And in 2022 House elections she ran from this district. —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 08:53, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

In the third paragraph, the article attributes democratic gains in Ohio to the state supreme court overturning gerrymanders. However, each set of maps that were submitted were rules to be unconstitutional gerrymanders. Eventually, a federal court ruled that it was too close to the election to draw another new set of maps and allowed the state to use a set of maps that have already been found to be an unconstitutional gerrymander. Based on this, I don't think it's correct to attribute democratic gains to the redrawn maps. 2601:408:C200:3C60:60EB:8ECD:5906:2F84 (talk) 17:09, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2023

In the table at the top of the page, the next year for house elections is 2023. Can you please say "2023"? Please. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:CCE8:E2DF:41A6:666A (talk) 00:16, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Unclear what you are asking for. The House elections are every two years, the next one will be in 2024, which is what the infobox links to. RudolfRed (talk) 00:33, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

No, 2023 is next, because there will be a House Election in Virginia's 4th District. So the info box needs to say "2023 is next". Thanks. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:CCE8:E2DF:41A6:666A (talk) 00:46, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

The link goes to the regularly scheduled election for the next Congress; that's the standard set up for these infoboxes. — Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 13:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

There is a "2023 United States House of Representatives elections" page, so the 2023 election is next. Can you please fix the info box? Please. 2601:40A:8400:5A40:60C1:CA49:27AD:5418 (talk) 19:01, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Table Coloring

I see that the state by state, seat by seat tables have solid blocks of color for the partisan vote index and for the incumbent, but not for the winner? Is there a strong reason for this? I would expect that readers of an encyclopedia would most benefit by having the incumbent and the winner highlighted. Jd2718 (talk) 00:18, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Idea for change in format to indications of party affiliation changes in electoral history/"first elected" columns in wikitables

Hello, everyone.
When it has come to the wikitables in US House, Senate, and governor election pages, party switches for politicians in the electoral history or "first elected" columns are usually indicated with simply insets or notes to say that they changed their party affiliation during their tenure. For example, see Jeff Van Drew for NJ-2 from this page (bolded):

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status
New Jersey 2	R+5	Jeff Van Drew	Republican	2018	Incumbent's intent unknown	▌Carolyn Rush (Democratic)

However, it feels as though party switches and general affiliation changes are common enough on election wikitables that having to use an inset each time is a bit awkward to do. As such, I am proposing that party switches be changed to a similar style to how nonconsecutive periods of service are indicated (for example, see Kweisi Mfume):

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status
Maryland 7	D+30	Kweisi Mfume	Democratic	1986 1996 (resigned) 2020 (special)	Incumbent's intent unknown	TBD

Returning to the example of Jeff Van Drew, this rendered for party switches could look like this:

District		Incumbent				Candidates
Location	2022 PVI	Member	Party	First elected	Status
New Jersey 2	R+5	Jeff Van Drew	Republican	2018 (Democratic) 2019 (Republican)	Incumbent's intent unknown	▌Carolyn Rush (Democratic)

Or, for examples of people who had longer periods of service, here's what they could look like:

District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status
Michigan 3	Justin Amash	Libertarian	2010 (Republican) 2019 (Independent) 2020 (Libertarian)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Republican gain.	Y Peter Meijer (Republican) 53.0% Hillary Scholten (Democratic) 47.0%
District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status
Texas 4	Ralph Hall	Republican	1980 (Democratic) 2004 (Republican)	Incumbent lost renomination. New member elected. Republican hold.	Y John Ratcliffe (Republican) Unopposed
District	Incumbent				Candidates
Location	Member	Party	First elected	Status
Virginia 5	Virgil Goode	Republican	1996 (Democratic) 2000 (Independent) 2002 (Republican)	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic gain.	Y Tom Perriello (Democratic) 50.1% Virgil Goode (Republican) 49.9%

Thank you for your consideration, and I hope that this proposal will ultimately be implemented. PrusBis6187 (talk) 21:09, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Pelosi stepping down as leader

shouldn't the infobox have Pelosi retiring as Democratic house leader? 72.24.214.237 (talk) 22:40, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

the change in leadership took place in the following Congress, after these elections took place. it’s not particularly relevant to an article about the elections. Griffindaly (talk) 22:46, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Opinion polls

Shouldn't there be a section on opinion polls, showing e.g. a list of generic ballot polls for the house prior to the election. That is the standard for other first-past-the-polls elections like the UK House of Commons too 11:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC) 159.86.201.134 (talk) 11:31, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Oregon Map

Can someone fix the oregon map. It shows that there was a democrat gain and a Republican gain NathanBru (talk) 22:48, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Voter turnout

Didn’t there used to be at the top of the infobox the percentage for total voter turnout compared to registered voters nationwide what happened to that? Rabbipika (talk) 16:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Crossover seats

Would it be an idea to edit the table for crossover seats to include future (so 2024) presidential results, this confirming the status of the seat as a crossover seat and not simply a seat that was already shifting? This information may be interesting. 141.154.49.21 (talk) 06:45, 13 December 2024 (UTC)