1992 United States House of Representatives elections


The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections coincided with the 1992 presidential election, in which Democrat Bill Clinton was elected as President, defeating Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush.
Despite this, however, the Democrats lost a net of nine seats in the House to the Republicans, in part due to redistricting following the 1990 Census. The Democrats nonetheless retained a majority in the House and Senate.
This election was the first using districts drawn on the basis of the 1990 Census. The redrawn districts were notable for the increase in majority-minority districts, drawn as mandated by the Voting Rights Act. The 1980 Census resulted in 17 majority-black districts and 10 majority-Hispanic districts, but 32 and 19 such districts, respectively, were drawn after 1990.

Overall results

Source:

Retiring incumbents

64 members did not seek re-election: 40 Democrats and 24 Republicans.

Democrats

  1. : Claude Harris Jr.
  2. : Barbara Boxer
  3. : Edward R. Roybal
  4. : Mel Levine
  5. : Mervyn Dymally
  6. : Glenn M. Anderson
  7. : Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  8. :Tom Carper
  9. : Charles E. Bennett
  10. : Lawrence J. Smith
  11. : William Lehman
  12. : Dante Fascell
  13. : Robert Lindsay Thomas
  14. : Ed Jenkins
  15. : Doug Barnard Jr.
  16. : Richard H. Stallings
  17. : Frank Annunzio
  18. : Chris Perkins
  19. : Brian J. Donnelly
  20. : J. Bob Traxler
  21. : Howard Wolpe
  22. : Dennis Hertel
  23. : Bernard J. Dwyer
  24. : Robert A. Roe
  25. : Frank Joseph Guarini
  26. : Robert J. Mrazek
  27. : James H. Scheuer
  28. : Matthew F. McHugh
  29. : Henry J. Nowak
  30. : Charlie Luken
  31. : Dennis E. Eckart
  32. : Donald J. Pease
  33. : Ed Feighan
  34. : Les AuCoin
  35. : Gus Yatron
  36. : Joseph M. Gaydos
  37. : Robin Tallon
  38. : Wayne Owens
  39. : Jim Olin
  40. : Jim Moody

    Republicans

  41. : William Louis Dickinson
  42. : John Paul Hammerschmidt
  43. : Tom Campbell
  44. : William E. Dannemeyer
  45. : Bill Lowery
  46. : Craig T. James
  47. : Andy Ireland
  48. : Larry J. Hopkins
  49. : Robert William Davis
  50. : Carl Pursell
  51. : William Broomfield
  52. : Vin Weber
  53. : Matthew John Rinaldo
  54. : Norman F. Lent
  55. : Raymond J. McGrath
  56. : David O'Brien Martin
  57. : Frank Horton
  58. : Chalmers Wylie
  59. : Richard T. Schulze
  60. : Lawrence Coughlin
  61. : George Allen
  62. : John R. Miller
  63. : Sid Morrison
  64. : Jennifer Dunn

    Incumbents defeated

Democrats

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

The delegation increased from 45 to 52 seats. To create the seven-seat net gain, eight seats were added, designated as: the,,,,,,, and districts, and one seat was lost through the merger of two seats: the former and districts merged into the redesignated, in an election contest.

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Four seats were added by reapportionment.

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Illinois lost one seat due to reapportionment.

Indiana

Iowa

One seat was lost due to reapportionment.

Kansas

One seat was lost due to reapportionment.

Kentucky

Louisiana

One seat lost to reapportionment. Four Incumbents were squeezed into two districts and one new district was created.

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Massachusetts lost one seat due to reapportionment.

Michigan

Michigan lost two seats to reapportionment.

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

One seat was lost in reapportionment.

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

New York lost three seats in reapportionment.

North Carolina

North Dakota

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

One seat gained in reapportionment.

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming