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2026 primary season yields greatest preelection House turnover in over 3 decades

Pew Research Center · Drew DeSilver · last updated

74 House members won’t return next Congress – more than before any general election since 1992.

With primary season in the United States now over, control of the House of Representatives is still very much up for grabs. But before a single general-election vote has been tallied, 74 House members are already heading out the door – more than before any general election since 1992.

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