The 2016 U.S. House of Representatives elections in California took place on November 8, 2016. ONE MINUTE SPEECHES - The House proceeded with one further minute speeches. House members serve two-year terms, while Senators are elected for six years. “This could be a really good night for America,” House speaker Paul Ryan, who won a 10th term in Wisconsin, told supporters in his home town of Janesville. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Applying this definition to U.S. House elections, we found that Republicans needed to lose 48 seats for 2018 to qualify as a wave election. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? The calendar below lists important dates for political candidates in California in 2016. if(document.getElementsByClassName("reference").length==0) if(document.getElementById('Footnotes')!==null) document.getElementById('Footnotes').parentNode.style.display = 'none'; Communications: Kristen Vonasek • Kayla Harris • Megan Brown • Mary Dunne • Sarah Groat • Heidi Jung Click here to contact our editorial staff, and click here to report an error. Unlike the top-two format used in some states (Louisiana and Georgia special elections for example), a general election between the top two candidates in California occurs regardless of whether the top candidate received 50 percent of the vote in the first round of elections. The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. 04:31 PM : DEBATE - The House proceeded with 90 minutes of debate on H.R. The 53 incumbents heading into the 2016 are listed below. 04:29 PM Primary: California uses a top-two primary system, in which all candidates appear on the same ballot. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. That would be an eight-seat gain for Democrats, but still well short of what would be necessary to snatch the 435-member chamber back from Republican control. 4447. In the House, Republicans were on track to take 239 seats to the Democrats' 196, according to NBC's House model. POLITICO's Live 2016 Election Results and Maps by State, County and District. The Senate was in Republican hands, 54 to 46 and in danger of sliding into Democratic control. 4447 would be postponed. But they rallied to minimize their losses, with incumbents in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin snatching crucial victories. 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The Democrats needed to turn over the GOP’s 54-46 Senate majority in what ought to have been a vulnerable year for the Republicans, who were defending 24 seats compared to the Democrats’ 10. It also seems to guarantee that the US Supreme Court would swing back towards the right, with a Republican-controlled Senate approving conservative justices nominated by a Republican president. Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. 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Voters elected 53 candidates to serve in the U.S. House , one from each of the state's 53 congressional districts. Former 2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio overcame Democratic challenger Patrick Murphy to keep his Senate seat in Florida, while John McCain, the 80-year-old Arizona Senator who lost the 2008 presidential race to Barack Obama, comfortably defeated Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick to ensure he will serve another term in Washington. For information about public policy issues in the 2016 elections, see: Public policy in the 2016 elections!