The 1986 United States House of Representatives elections was held on November 4, 1986, in the middle of
President
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Ronald Reagan
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's second term in office, while he was still relatively popular with the American public. As in most mid-term elections, the President's party — in this case, the
Republican Party — lost seats, with the
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gaining a net of five seats and cementing its majority. These results were not as dramatic as those in the
Senate
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, where the Republicans lost control of the chamber to the Democrats.
Overall results
Source
Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk
Retiring incumbents
Forty incumbents retired.
Democrats
Nineteen incumbent Democrats retired.
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Richard Shelby
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Tim Wirth
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Don Fuqua
John Donald Fuqua (born August 20, 1933) is a former U.S. Democratic politician.
Early years and Education
Don Fuqua was born in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida in 1933. Fuqua attended the University of Florida at Gainesville from 1951 t ...
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Wyche Fowler: To
run for U.S. senator
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Berkley Bedell
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John Breaux
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Catherine Small Long
Mary Catherine Small Long (born Mary Catherine Small; February 7, 1924 – November 23, 2019) was an American politician who served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, whi ...
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Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski ( ; born July 20, 1936) is an American politician and social worker who served as a United States senator from Maryland from 1987 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she also served in the United States House of Repr ...
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Parren Mitchell
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Michael D. Barnes
Michael Darr Barnes (born September 3, 1943) is an American lawyer and politician who represented the eighth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987.
Early life
Born in Washington, D.C. to John P. Ba ...
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Tip O'Neill
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Harry Reid
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Stan Lundine: To
run for Lieutenant Governor of New York
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Charles Orville Whitley
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John F. Seiberling
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James R. Jones: To
run for U.S. senator
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Jim Weaver: To
run for U.S. senator
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Robert W. Edgar: To
run for U.S. senator
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Tom Daschle
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Republicans
Twenty-one incumbent Republicans retired.
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John McCain
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run for U.S. senator
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Eldon Rudd
Eldon Dean Rudd (July 15, 1920February 8, 2002) was a U.S. Republican politician.
Early life
Rudd was born in Camp Verde, Arizona. A 1939 graduate of Clarkdale High School in Clarkdale, Arizona, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in ...
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Eugene A. Chappie
Eugene Albert Chappie (March 28, 1920 – May 31, 1992) was a United States Congressman from California. He served as a Republican between 1981 and 1987.
Chappie was born in Sacramento, California. After graduating from high school, he joined ...
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Ed Zschau: To
run for U.S. senator
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Bobbi Fiedler: To
run for U.S. senator
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Ken Kramer
Kenneth Bentley Kramer (born February 19, 1942) is an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from Colorado. He is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives.
Born in 1942, in Chicago, Kramer grew up in the city's ...
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George M. O'Brien
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John E. Grotberg
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Elwood Hillis
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T. Cooper Evans
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Gene Snyder
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Snyder was born ...
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Henson Moore
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run for U.S. senator
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John R. McKernan Jr.: To
run for Governor of Maine
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Marjorie Holt
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William Carney
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Tom Kindness
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Life and career
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Kindness graduated from ...
: To
run for U.S. senator
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Thomas F. Hartnett: To
run for Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
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Carroll A. Campbell Jr.: To
run for Governor of South Carolina
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Tom Loeffler
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Loeffler was born in Fredericksburg in the heart of the Texas Hill Country an ...
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run for Governor of Texas
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David Smith Monson
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and former United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative and the Lieutenant Governor of Utah, second Lieutenant Governor of Utah. He is a member of the Republican P ...
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G. William Whitehurst
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Les Aspin
Leslie Aspin Jr. (July 21, 1938 – May 21, 1995) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1993 and as the 18th United States Secretary of Defens ...
, , Democratic
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1970
Events
January
* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
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Robert Kastenmeier
Robert William Kastenmeier (January 24, 1924March 20, 2015) was an American Democratic politician who represented central Wisconsin in the United States House of Representatives for 32 years, from 1959 until 1991. He was a key sponsor of the Co ...
, , Democratic
,
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
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Steve Gunderson
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1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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Jerry Kleczka
Gerald Daniel Kleczka (; November 26, 1943 – October 8, 2017) was an American politician and Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1984 to 2005, representing . The district included the city of Milwaukee.
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, , Democratic
,
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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Jim Moody
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, , Democratic
,
1982
Events January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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,
,
Tom Petri
Thomas Evert Petri (born May 28, 1940) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 1979 to 2015; he is a member of the Republican Party.
Early life
Petri was born in Marinette, Wisconsin. When he was a toddler, his fat ...
, , Republican
,
1979
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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Dave Obey
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, , Democratic
,
1969
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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Toby Roth
Tobias Anton "Toby" Roth (born October 10, 1938) is a former Republican U.S. Representative from Wisconsin.
Roth represented Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979, first being ...
, , Republican
,
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
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,
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. (; born June 14, 1943) is an American politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 2021 (numbered as the 9th district until 2003). He is a member of the Republican Party.
...
, , Republican
,
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
, Incumbent re-elected.
, nowrap ,
Wyoming
See also
*
1986 United States elections
**
1986 United States gubernatorial elections
United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 4, 1986, in 36 states and two territories. The Democrats had a net loss of eight seats during this election, which coincided with the Senate and the House elections. This was despite t ...
**
1986 United States Senate elections
The 1986 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in the middle of Ronald Reagan's second presidential term. The Republicans had to defend an unusually large number of freshman Senate incumbents who had been el ...
*
99th United States Congress
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100th United States Congress
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Notes
External links
Clerk of the House's election data
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