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United States 2016 House of Representatives election

What was the result of the 2016 House of Representatives election in the United States?

Republican Party won 241 of 435 seats with 48.4% of the vote.

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  • Office of the Clerk of the House, read 4 November 2026

Which party won the most seats?

Final results from the Office of the Clerk of the House, read : Republican Party won 241 of 435 seats with 48.4% of the vote.

  • Republican Party 241 −6 seats 48.4% −2.3 points
  • Democratic Party 194 +6 seats 47.3% +2.4 points
  • Libertarian Party 0 0 seats 1.3% +0.1 points
  • Green Party 0 0 seats 0.4% +0.1 points
  • Constitution Party 0 0.1%
  • Seats won
  • Change on the previous election at the right
  • Share of the vote
  • Share at the previous election
  • Change in points at the right

Changes are against the United States 2014 House of Representatives election, party by party.

218 of 435 seats make a majority

Key numbers

  1. 48.4%

    Share of the vote won by Republican Party

    Republican Party won 241 of 435 seats. A majority needs 218.

  2. +6 seats

    Seats gained by Democratic Party

    The largest gain in seats compared with 2014. Republican Party lost 6 seats.

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Republican Party241−648.4−2.362,772,225
Democratic Party194+647.3+2.461,417,454
Other parties001.9−0.22,412,788
Libertarian Party001.3+0.11,660,923
Independents000.7−0.1870,167
Green Party000.4+0.1501,135
Write-ins and scattered votes000.10.0122,469
Constitution Party00.176,089

± is the change against the United States 2014 House of Representatives election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Republican Party 62,772,225
  • Democratic Party 61,417,454
  • Other parties 2,412,788
  • Libertarian Party 1,660,923
  • Independents 870,167
  • Green Party 501,135
  • Write-ins and scattered votes 122,469
  • Constitution Party 76,089

Source: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 8, 2016", public information that may be copied with this citation. We worked out each share.

A share is a party's votes over all the votes the Clerk counts for the House, write-ins included.

Votes are counted on each party's own ballot line. A candidate who stood on the lines of more than one party (in New York, Connecticut and South Carolina) has the votes of the extra lines under Other parties, so the Democratic and Republican totals can be a little lower than counts that add the lines together.

Seats are the Clerk's count at the time of the election: a seat that was vacant then is not counted.

How do the votes compare with the seats?

  • Republican Party48.4% of votes55.4% of seats
  • Democratic Party47.3% of votes44.6% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.2 by votes and 2.0 by seats; Republican Party led Democratic Party by 1.1 points of the vote.

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