Which states have the highest number of elected Democratic congressmen and senators?

Checked on November 26, 2025
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Executive summary

As of the 119th Congress (2025–2027), Democrats (including two independents who caucus with them) hold 45 Senate seats while Republicans hold 53 (with 2 independents noted separately) and the House is divided roughly 219 R / 212 D in voting seats (plus a few vacancies and delegates) [1] [2] [3]. Available sources list members by state but do not provide a single precompiled ranking of which states have the most elected Democratic members across both chambers; state-by-state counts must be constructed from the membership lists [4] [5] [1].

1. What the raw numbers in Congress show right now

The Senate has 100 members (two per state); party division in the 119th Congress is reported as Republicans 53, Democrats 45, and Independents 2 — with the balance of power listed on the official Senate page [1]. The House composition is reported in congressional profiles and directories as roughly 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats among voting members for the 119th Congress [2]. Ballotpedia and GovTrack maintain current member lists that can be used to count party delegations by state [3] [6].

2. Why there is no single authoritative state-by-state “most Democrats” list in these sources

The provided sources (Senate.gov, Wikipedia lists, GovTrack, Ballotpedia, Congress.gov) present complete rosters but do not publish a single summary table that ranks states by the combined number of Democratic senators and representatives; instead they give raw member lists and overall party divisions [4] [1] [5] [3] [2]. That means doing the state ranking requires counting entries on those rosters or using third‑party aggregations — steps not performed in the cited documents [4] [5].

3. How to derive which states lead in Democratic members (methodology)

To answer “which states have the highest number of elected Democratic congressmen and senators” using these sources, a researcher must: (a) take the current House roster (which lists each member and their party and district by state) and count Democratic House members per state [5]; (b) add up Democratic senators in that state (0, 1, or 2) from the Senate roster [4] [1]; and (c) compare totals across states. The official Senate and House rosters and third‑party trackers (GovTrack, Ballotpedia) provide the necessary raw data but do not do the aggregation for you [1] [6] [3].

4. What we can infer from recent reporting and party geography

States with large House delegations and Democratic dominance in recent cycles — typically New York, California, Illinois, and possibly New Jersey and Massachusetts — are the most likely to top a combined count because they combine two Democratic senators and many Democratic House members (the specific tallies are not precompiled in these sources) [5] [4]. Reporting about delegation control in the House notes that as of Nov. 20, 2025 Democrats controlled 18 state delegations while Republicans controlled 30, which gives a sense of where Democrats are concentrated but does not list exact counts by state [5].

5. Competing perspectives and limitations in the data

Official sources emphasize raw membership and overall partisan splits rather than state rankings; analyst outlets (e.g., Ballotpedia, GovTrack) provide searchable rosters but still leave the aggregation to the user [3] [6]. News analyses (Bloomberg Gov, Roll Call) discuss vulnerable senators and state trends but focus on competitiveness rather than a numeric “most Democratic” ranking [7] [8]. Therefore any definitive ranking produced outside these rosters would be an interpretation built from the same underlying lists rather than a separate official statistic [1] [4].

6. Quick guidance if you want a definitive list now

Use the linked rosters: the Senate’s “Senators” page and the House member list or the Wikipedia roster for the 119th Congress to tally Democrats by state [1] [5] [4]. For an automated option, export the GovTrack or Ballotpedia member lists and sum party labels by state [6] [3]. The sources cited here provide accurate, current membership data necessary to compute the answer, but they do not themselves publish the ranked state totals [1] [5] [3].

Note: available sources do not mention a single ready-made ranking of states by combined number of elected Democratic congressmen and senators; they provide the underlying rosters from which such a ranking must be constructed [4] [1] [5].

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