Of five House seats still undecided, two are in California — one a neck-and-neck race that could give the state its second blue flip.
On Monday, Nov. 18, almost two weeks after the election, the count was too close to call in the two districts:
District 13, Central Valley: With 86% of the votes counted, incumbent John Duarte (R) was a little more than a percentage point ahead of Adam Gray (D).
District 45, Los Angeles/Orange County: With 94% of the votes counted, the rivals were virtually tied. Challenger Derek Tran (D) had 152,981 votes, and incumbent Michelle Steel (R) 152,945.
A win by Tran (or, less likely, Gray) would make him the second Democrat in this election to grab a California congressional seat from a Republican incumbent, after George Whitesides took District 27 from Mike Garcia.
The other House seats still not called were in Iowa, Ohio and Alaska.
The Republicans last week clinched the threshold of 218 required for a majority in the chamber. Three of the party’s House members have been nominated for Cabinet positions; the vacated seats would be filled by special elections.
The seven California House districts in which no incumbent was running were all won by a candidate of the previous representative’s party:
- 12: Lateefa Simon (D), replacing Barbara Lee
- 16: Sam Liccardo (D), replacing Anna Eshoo
- 20: Vince Fong (R), replacing Kevin McCarthy
- 29: Luz Rivas (D), replacing Tony Cárdenas
- 30: Laura Friedman (D), replacing Adam Schiff
- 31: Gil Cisneros (D), replacing Grace Napolitano
- 47: Dave Min (D), replacing Katie Porter
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