Democratic Party

To retake the majority in the U.S. Senate in the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic Party needed a net gain of four Senate seats.

Proponents of California Proposition 50 asserted the measure could result in the creation of five additional Democratic-leaning U.S. House districts.

Progressive activists and candidates increasingly target incumbent Democratic members in primary elections, frequently framing challenges around ideological differences and the incumbents' age.

Lawmakers from both major U.S. political parties have increasingly expressed discomfort with the growing use of congressional censure as a political tool.

A 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll found that when respondents were asked whom they would vote for in the 2026 midterm elections if held at the time of the survey, Democratic candidates led Republican candidates by 14 percentage points.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a U.S. Representative from New York and is a member of the Democratic Party.

Charlotte, North Carolina is a racially diverse city with an estimated population of about 950,000 and is politically dominated by the Democratic Party.

Districts centered on urban areas tend to lean Democratic, while districts that include more rural areas tend to lean Republican.

A 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist poll of 1,443 U.S. adults conducted Nov. 10–13, 2025 found that respondents said they would vote for Democratic congressional candidates over Republican candidates by 55% to 41%.

A November 10–13, 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist national poll of registered voters found 55% would vote for the Democratic candidate in their House district, 41% would vote for the Republican candidate, 3% would vote for another party, and 1% were unsure.

The November 10–13, 2025 NPR/PBS News/Marist national poll found Democrats led Republicans on the generic ballot by 14 percentage points (55% vs. 41%).

Jack Schlossberg is a member of the Democratic Party.

Charles Schumer is the United States Senate Minority Leader representing New York and is a member of the Democratic Party.

Campaign descriptions in 2025 characterized Proposition 50 as potentially resulting in as many as five additional Democratic-held seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

New Jersey tends to be politically 'purple' in gubernatorial elections, historically electing governors from both the Democratic and Republican parties even when the state leans Democratic in presidential and U.S. Senate races.

As of 2025, New Jersey had a Democratic governor for eight consecutive years and its state legislature was controlled by the Democratic Party.

Republican presidential candidates carried Virginia in ten consecutive elections from 1968 through 2004, and Democratic presidential candidates carried Virginia in the five presidential elections from 2008 through 2024.

Proposition 50 (2025) proposed redrawing California's congressional districts with the stated aim of producing up to five additional U.S. House seats favorable to the Democratic Party.

As of October 29, 2025, registered Democrats in California outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-to-1.

Hakeem Jeffries is the House Minority Leader and serves as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

As of 2025, registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans in New Jersey despite gains in Republican voter registration during the 2020s.

Majority Black and majority Latino congressional districts tend to favor Democratic candidates.

Hakeem Jeffries was serving as the U.S. House Minority Leader and is a member of the Democratic Party representing New York.

Adam Schiff is a United States Senator from California and a member of the Democratic Party.

ActBlue is an online fundraising platform commonly used by Democratic Party candidates and committees and it supports joint fundraising pages that can raise money for multiple campaigns.

John Fetterman is a Democratic United States Senator representing the state of Pennsylvania.

As of 2025, the Democratic Party held 43 of California's 52 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found notable changes since September 2021: overall frustration with the Democratic Party increased to 75% from 64% in September 2021; the share saying the Democratic Party makes them feel hopeful fell to 28% from 39% in 2021 and the share saying it makes them feel proud fell to 16% from 25% in 2021; by contrast, the shares saying the Republican Party makes them feel hopeful and proud rose to 36% (from 31% in 2021) and 27% (from 21% in 2021), respectively, while Republican-party frustration edged down to 64% from 68% in 2021.

Jay Jones was a Democratic candidate running for Virginia attorney general in 2025.

Mark Warner and Tim Kaine were the two Democratic U.S. senators representing the state of Virginia in 2025.

Abigail Spanberger was a Democratic candidate running for governor of Virginia in 2025.

A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 960,000 of the United States' Indian population of 4.9 million (approximately 20%) lived in California.

No Democratic presidential candidate carried North Carolina between the 2008 presidential election and the 2024 presidential election.

As of November 6, 2024, North Carolina's U.S. House delegation consisted of 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats out of 14 seats.

As of November 6, 2024, North Carolina's statewide executive offices included a Democratic governor, a Democratic lieutenant governor, and a Democratic attorney general, while both of the state's U.S. senators were Republicans.

In the 2024 presidential election, approximately 80% of voters in Marin County, California, supported the Democratic ticket headed by the party that included Kamala Harris.

There is a generational debate within the Democratic Party in which younger Democrats are increasingly mounting primary challenges to older, long-serving Democratic incumbents.

In 2023, the Republican Party had a 12-percentage-point advantage over the Democratic Party on public agreement with economic policy.

In 2023, 26% of Americans said they agreed with neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party on economic policy.

In the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Maine, the Democratic nominee lost to incumbent Susan Collins by eight percentage points.

In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden carried Maine by nine percentage points.

Public attitudes toward nuclear power in the United States have softened in recent years, and nuclear energy has attracted political support from members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Eric Swalwell was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

The 2018 U.S. midterm elections resulted in the Democratic Party flipping control of the U.S. House of Representatives and gaining 40 seats.

Democratic candidates won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm elections.

In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, Democratic candidates won approximately 40 House seats.

In the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party gained 40 seats in the House of Representatives.

Democrats had not won a U.S. Senate election in Maine since George Mitchell's 1988 reelection.

ActBlue is a digital fundraising platform used by the Democratic Party that supports joint fundraising pages for candidates and committees.

Tim Kaine was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 2016.

Virginia is widely considered a politically competitive U.S. state where both the Republican and Democratic parties actively compete for control.

Candidates for California governor can come from multiple parties, including the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and third parties such as the Green Party.

ActBlue is a primary online fundraising platform used by Democratic candidates and organizations.

Zohran Mamdani is a politician affiliated with the Democratic Party who has been described as a Democratic socialist.

Both Republican and Democratic U.S. administrations have maintained a policy of "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan, avoiding a public commitment about whether the United States would militarily defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack.

The office of the mayor of Atlanta is officially nonpartisan, and the office has been held by members of the Democratic Party for decades.

Mikie Sherrill is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and is affiliated with the Democratic Party.

Jay Jones is a member of the Democratic Party and Jason Miyares is a member of the Republican Party.

In the American South, majority-minority districts for state legislatures and for Congress have been the primary districts held by the Democratic Party.

New York has a Democratic voter registration advantage, with Democrats holding a major edge in registered voters compared to Republicans.