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2024 House Forecast and Predictions

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 5 at 12:18 PM EST

Our model currently predicts that Republicans have a 52% chance of winning the House.

Prediction Updates

Last updated on Nov 4 2024 by Decision Desk HQ

The Final Forecast

Entering Election Day, Donald Trump is a slight favorite to win the 2024 election, though the outcome is effectively a toss-up. Neither candidate is clearly favored in enough states to secure the 270 electoral votes needed, with Trump currently at 219 and Harris at 226, and 93 votes dispersed across seven “tossup” states. The former Republican President holds a narrow lead in six of the seven “tossup” states—Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—while Harris has a slight edge in Michigan.

Harris’s most efficient path to 270 runs through the Rust Belt, holding Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania would give her exactly 270 electoral votes, enough to secure the presidency without a single Sun Belt state. Meanwhile, Trump’s most efficient path involves holding North Carolina and flipping Georgia and Pennsylvania, in which case he’d hit exactly 270. As such, Pennsylvania almost certainly holds the key to either candidate’s path

House Seats Forecast

Elections will be held this November for representatives from all 435 congressional districts across the 50 U.S. states. The House Republican Conference, under the leadership of Mike Johnson since October 2023 following Kevin McCarthy's removal, and the Democrats, now led by Hakeem Jeffries instead of Nancy Pelosi for the first time since 2002, are gearing up for a highly competitive race. Although House Republicans fell short of their lofty expectations in 2022, they managed to flip nine seats, securing a majority and the Speaker's gavel. They must now defend this narrow majority against the Democrats, who hold 213 seats—just five seats shy of the 218 needed to regain control. These maps categorize congressional districts by each party’s likelihood of winning, ranging from 'safe' to 'likely' to 'lean' to 'toss-up'.

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Chance of winning the house

Our model is updated every day, blending the latest data on polls and fundraising with "fundamental" factors like incumbency and each district's partisan lean. This graph tracks each party’s probability of winning control of the House over time.

House Seats Projections

Republican: 218

Democrat: 217

This graph tracks each party’s projected seat count in the House over time.

Chance of winning each district

This chart visualizes the current probabilities of each party winning individual races. Circles positioned further to the left indicate a higher likelihood of a Democratic victory, while circles to the right suggest a stronger chance for Republicans. Use the 'DEM' and 'GOP' filters to view states most likely to support the respective parties.

House Seats Simulations

These graphs display the distribution of House seat counts from 14,000,605 simulations for both Democrats and Republicans. The lighter shaded areas to the left of the dotted line depict scenarios where a party fails to secure a majority, while the darker shaded areas to the right represent majority-winning outcomes. Each bar indicates the percentage of simulations resulting in a specific seat count.

Featured Races

Explore the latest probabilities in the most competitive presidential, Senate, and House races by selecting any of the races listed below.

Interested to see how the DDHQ/The Hill forecast works? Read our methodology statement.

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