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2010 COMPETITIVE HOUSE RACE CHART

July 20, 2009

Below is a list of the competitive and potentially competitive House races for .

Likely: These seats are not considered competitive at this point but have the potential to become engaged.
Lean: These are considered competitive races but one party has an advantage.
Toss-Up: These are the most competitive; either party has a good chance of winning.

Bolded name denotes opposing party's seat
Italicized name denotes Freshman member
* denotes possible incumbent retirement
# denotes possible serious primary challenge

Democrats currently have 23 seats listed as Lean or Toss Up.
Republicans currently have 10 seats listed as Lean or Toss Up.

LIKELY DEMOCRATIC

LEAN DEMOCRATIC

DEMOCRATIC TOSS UP

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AZ-1 Ann Kirkpatrick R+6
AZ-5 Harry Mitchell R+5
AZ-8 Gabrielle Giffords R+4
AR-1 Marion Berry R+8
AR-2 Vic Snyder R+5
CA-11 Jerry McNerney R+1
CO-3 John Salazar R+5
CT-4 Jim Himes D+5
FL-22 Ron Klein D+1
FL-24 Suzanne Kosmas R+4
GA-8 Jim Marshall R+10
GA-12 John Barrow D+1
HI-1 OPEN (Abercrombie) D+11
IL-11 Debbie Halvorson R+1
IN-2 Joe Donnelly R+2
IN-9 Baron Hill R+6
IA-2 Dave Loebsack D+7
IA-3 Leonard Boswell D+1
LA-3 Charlie Melancon * R+12
MI-9 Gary Peters D+2
NJ-3 John Adler R+1
NM-1 Martin Heinrich D+5
NY-1 Tim Bishop R+0
NY-13 Mike McMahon R+4
NY-19 John Hall R+3
NY-25 Dan Maffei D+3
OH-16 John Boccieri R+4
OR-4 Peter DeFazio* D+2
OR-5 Kurt Schrader D+1
PA-3 Kathy Dahlkemper R+3
PA-4 Jason Altmire R+6
PA-10 Chris Carney R+8
PA-11 Paul Kanjorski D+4
PA-12 John Murtha R+1
TX-23 Ciro Rodriguez R+4
VA-11 Gerald Connolly D+2
WI-8 Steve Kagen R+2

37 DEMOCRATS
0 REPUBLICANS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-5 Parker Griffith R+12
CO-4 Betsy Markey R+6
FL-8 Alan Grayson R+2
IL-14 Bill Foster R+1
MI-7 Mark Schauer R+2
MS-1 Travis Childers R+14
NV-3 Dina Titus D+2
NH-1 Carol Shea-Porter R+0
NH-2 OPEN (Hodes) D+3
NY-20 Scott Murphy R+2
NY-24 Michael Arcuri R+2
NY-29 Eric Massa R+5
NC-8 Larry Kissell R+2
OH-1 Steve Driehaus D+1
OH-15 Mary Jo Kilroy D+1
OH-18 Zack Space R+7
TX-17 Chet Edwards R+20
VA-2 Glenn Nye R+5
VA-5 Tom Perriello R+5

19 DEMOCRATS
0 REPUBLICANS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-2 Bobby Bright R+16
ID-1 Walter Minnick R+18
MD-1 Frank Kratovil R+13
NM-2 Harry Teague R+6

4 DEMOCRATS
0 REPUBLICANS

 

REPUBLICAN TOSS UP

LEAN REPUBLICAN

LIKELY REPUBLICAN

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
IL-10 OPEN (Kirk) D+6
LA-2 Joseph Cao D+25
NY-23 VACANT R+1
PA-6 OPEN (Gerlach) D+4

4 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
CA-3 Dan Lungren R+6
CA-44 Ken Calvert R+6
MI-11 Thad McCotter R+0
MN-6 Michele Bachmann R+7
NE-2 Lee Terry R+6
WA-8 Dave Reichert D+3

6 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AL-3 Mike Rogers R+9
AK-AL Don Young R+13
AZ-3 John Shadegg R+9
CA-4 Tom McClintock R+10
CA-26 David Dreier R+3
CA-45 Mary Bono Mack R+3
CA-46 Dana Rohrabacher R+6
CA-48 John Campbell R+6
CA-50 Brian Bilbray R+3
DE-AL Mike Castle D+7
FL-10 C. W. Bill Young R+1
FL-12 OPEN (Putnam) R+6
FL-13 Vern Buchanan R+6
FL-16 Tom Rooney R+5
FL-25 Mario Diaz-Balart R+5
IL-6 Peter Roskam D+0
IL-13 Judy Biggert R+1
IN-3 Mark Souder R+14
IA-4 Tom Latham D+0
LA-4 John Fleming R+11
LA-6 Bill Cassidy R+10
MN-3 Erik Paulsen R+0
MO-9 Blaine Luetkemeyer R+9
NV-2 Dean Heller R+5
NJ-7 Leonard Lance R+3
NY-26 Chris Lee R+6
OH-2 Jean Schmidt R+13
OH-12 Patrick Tiberi D+1
PA-15 Charlie Dent D+2
PA-18 Tim Murphy R+6
SC-1 Henry Brown R+10
TN-3 OPEN (Wamp) R+13
TX-10 Michael McCaul R+10
VA-10 Frank Wolf R+2

34 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

* = potential retirement

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