The latest readings, based on an April Gallup poll of registered voters, are in line with those from the and midterm elections. They are also similar to the findings, although the percentage for "most" members of Congress was higher that year. Republican voters, whose party has controlled both houses of Congress since , are more likely than Democrats or independents to support the re-election of incumbents, both their own member and most members.
This generally mirrors the most recent findings for overall congressional approval. While one-third of Republicans say most members of Congress deserve to serve another term, fewer Democrats and independents agree.
In the pre-election poll, Democratic and Republican voters supported most incumbents in roughly equal, and low, numbers -- roughly one-quarter each said most members of Congress deserved re-election. Republicans went on to win control of the Senate and retain control of the House. In , Democratic voters were more than twice as likely as Republicans to say most incumbents in Congress deserved re-election, and the Republicans recaptured the House.
The opposite was true in , when twice as many Republicans as Democrats said most incumbents deserved to serve another term.
That year, Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress. In general, re-election rates of incumbent members of Congress are high, but there are fluctuations in how high. For the five midterms before , in years when voters were less likely to say incumbents deserved to serve another term, the incumbent re-election rate in the U. House of Representatives was lower.
The converse has also been true: when U. Yet the election did not follow the same pattern as the five previous midterms. In , just days before voters went to the polls, less than one-quarter said most members of Congress deserved to serve another term. This was the lowest reading dating back to Please support our research with a financial contribution. It organizes the public into nine distinct groups, based on an analysis of their attitudes and values. Even in a polarized era, the survey reveals deep divisions in both partisan coalitions.
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