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Honeycombe8

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Wed Nov 7, 2018, 10:09 AM Nov 2018

34 House Flips for the Democrats (12+ females unseat white Republican males)

Last edited Mon Nov 12, 2018, 10:03 PM - Edit history (10)

Here are the Democratic Party flips.

(The "(F)" = female replaced a Republican male in the seat.)

1. AZ 2nd: Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick topped Republican Lea Marquez Peterson.

(F)2. CA 25: Democrat Katie Hill ousted GOP Representative Steve Knight
3. CA 48: Harley Rouda beats Dana Rohrabacher
4. CA 49: Democrat Mike Levin beats GOP Harkey

5. CO 6th: Democrat Jason Crow unseated incumbent Republican Mike Coffman.

(F) 6. FL 26th: Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell defeated Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo.
7. FL 27th: Democrat Donna Shalala, a former Clinton admin official, beat Republican Maria Elvira Salazar, a TV journalist.

(F) 8. IA 1st: Democrat Abby Finkenauer unseated Republican incumbent Rod Blum.
(F) 9. IA 3rd: Democrat Cindy Axne defeated incumbent Republican David Young.

10. IL 6: Democrat Sean Casten defeated incumbent Republican Rep. Peter Roskam.
(F) 11. IL 14th: Democrat Lauren Underwood unseated incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren. (woman of color defeated white Republican male.)

(F) 12. KS 3rd: Democrat Sharice Davids defeated Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder. (woman of color - Native Am. - unseats white Republican male)

(F)13. MI 8: Democrat Elissa Slotkin defeated Republican Mike Bishop
14. MI 11: Democrat Haley Stevens defeated Republican Lena Epstein

(F) 15. MN 2nd: Democrat Angie Craig unseated Republican incumbent Jason Lewis
16. MN 3rd: Dean Phillips defeated incumbent Republican Erik Paulsen.

17. NJ 2nd: Democrat Jeff Van Drew defeated Republican Seth Grossman
18. NJ 3rd: Democrat Lucy McBath unseats GOP Rep. Karen Handel
19. NJ 7th: Democrat Tom Malinowski ousted incumbent Republican Leonard Lance
20. (F) NJ 11th: Democrat Mikie Sherrill won the race for the open seat against Republican Jay Webber.

(F)21. NM 2nd: Democrat Xochitl Torres Small defeats Yvette Herrell (Repub seat held by Steve Pearce, who didn't run for re-elect.)

22. NY 11th: Max Rose defeated Republican Dan Donovan, the only Republican House member in New York City.
23. NY 19th: Democrat Antonio Delgado edges out incumbent Republican Rep. John Faso (man of color unseated white male Republican.)

(F) 24. OK 5th: Democrat Kendra Horn defeated Republican Steve Russell.

25. PA 5th: Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon won against Republican Pearl Kim in the district which was reformed after the state’s gerrymandered map was redrawn.
(F) 26. PA 6th: Democrat Chrissy Houlahan beat out Republican Greg McCauley for the open seat.
(F) 27. PA 7th: Democrat Susan Wild defeated Republican Marty Nothstein for the open seat.
28. PA 17: Democrat Conor Lamb defeated Repub Keith Rothfus

29. SC 1st: Democrat Joe Cunningham defeats Katie Arrington

(F)30. TX 7th: Democrat Lizzie Fletcher unseats Repub John Culberson
31. TX 32nd: Democratic ex-NFL player Colin Allred beat incumbent Republican PETE SESSIONS (prominent pug). (man of color unseated prominent white male Republican.)

(F) 32. VA 2nd: Democrat Elaine Luria beat out incumbent Republican Scott Taylor.
(F) 33. VA 7th: Democrat Abigail Spanberger beat incumbent Republican Dave Brat.
34. VA 10th: Democrat Jennifer Wexton unseated incumbent Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock.



Several seats still being counted.
NY 22 - Democrat Brindisi is leading Republican Tinney; still counting, not called yet.
FL - Nelson in a manual count.

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