House Republicans will enter the 119th Congress with a razor-thin majority after an election that saw Democrats score a net gain of one seat — a rare bright spot for the party that decisively lost the White House and the Senate last month.
The final race to be decided — nearly one month after Election Day — was in California’s 13th District, where Democrat Adam Gray ousted Republican incumbent John Duarte, who had ranked second on Roll Call’s final list of the 10 most vulnerable House incumbents.
That means Republicans won a total of 220 House seats this year, while Democrats won 215.
Gray, a former state assemblyman, was ahead by fewer than 200 votes when The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday. Duarte had conceded the contest hours before, according to multiple published reports.
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