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2010 COMPETITIVE HOUSE RACE CHART

August 27, 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 26 seats listed as Lean or Toss Up.
Republicans currently have 13 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
AR-1 Marion Berry R+8
AR-2 Vic Snyder R+5
CA-11 Jerry McNerney R+1
CA-47 Loretta Sánchez D+4
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-3 Leonard Boswell D+1
MI-9 Gary Peters D+2
MO-4 Ike Skelton R+14
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-20 Scott Murphy R+2
NY-25 Dan Maffei D+3
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
TN-6 Bart Gordon R+13
TX-23 Ciro Rodriguez R+4
VA-11 Gerald Connolly D+2
WI-3 Ron Kind* D+4

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-24 Michael Arcuri R+2
NY-29 Eric Massa R+5
NC-8 Larry Kissell R+2
OH-1 Steve Driehaus D+1
OH-16 John Boccieri R+4
OH-18 Zack Space R+7
TX-17 Chet Edwards R+20
VA-2 Glenn Nye R+5
VA-5 Tom Perriello R+5
WI-8 Steve Kagen R+2

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
OH-15 Mary Jo Kilroy D+1
PA-7 OPEN (Sestak) D+3

6 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
LA-3 OPEN (Melancon) R+12
MI-11 Thad McCotter R+0
MN-6 Michele Bachmann R+7
NE-2 Lee Terry R+6
OH-2 Jean Schmidt R+13
OH-12 Patrick Tiberi D+1
PA-15 Charlie Dent D+2
WA-8 Dave Reichert D+3

9 REPUBLICANS
1 DEMOCRATS

DIST. REPRESENTATIVE PVI
AK-AL Don Young R+13
AZ-3 John Shadegg R+9
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
IL-6 Peter Roskam D+0
IL-13 Judy Biggert R+1
IA-4 Tom Latham D+0
KS-4 OPEN (Tiahrt) R+14
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
SC-1 Henry Brown R+10
TN-3 OPEN (Wamp) R+13
TX-10 Michael McCaul R+10
VA-10 Frank Wolf R+2

25 REPUBLICANS
0 DEMOCRATS

* = potential retirement

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