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Democrats hoped the 2024 election was their electoral low point.<\/p>\n

In terms of one key metric, it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

A new analysis of party-registration trends from the House Republicans\u2019 political arm shows that, since the last presidential election, Democrats have continued to bleed voters in more than two dozen key House districts considered battleground seats this year. In most of those seats, Republicans have made gains with registered voters, making those areas more favorable to them ahead of this year\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s another sign of the Democratic Party\u2019s deep and ongoing popularity issues since losing the last presidential election, when it sank to some of its lowest approval ratings<\/u><\/span> on record.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe battleground map keeps moving in Republicans\u2019 direction, and this data shows House Democrats are running out of places to hide,\u201d said Mike Marinella, a spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, which conducted the analysis and shared the results with NOTUS, in a statement. \u201cRepublicans are welcoming voters with open arms, expanding the electorate, and building long-term strength in swing districts while Democrats continue losing ground cycle after cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 28 congressional districts considered general-election battlegrounds, Democrats lost a total of more than 275,000 registered voters, an average of 10,000 voters per district. That\u2019s according to the NRCC\u2019s analysis, which found the number of registered Democrats shrinking in 27 of the 28 districts surveyed from November 2024 to May of this year.<\/p>\n

The Democratic declines were steepest in battlegrounds like North Carolina\u2019s 1st Congressional District, represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis; Pennsylvania\u2019s 8th Congressional District, represented by Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan; and a trio of GOP-held seats in Iowa\u2019s 1st, 2nd and 3rd Districts (held by Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, outgoing Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson and Republican Rep. Zach Nunn, respectively) \u2014 all of which are expected to be hotly contested in November.<\/p>\n

Another battleground, Maine\u2019s 2nd Congressional District, held by outgoing Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, has alone seen Democrats lose more than 23,000 registered voters in the last year and a half.<\/p>\n

A voter\u2019s partisan registration does not necessarily indicate how they will vote in any given election, and Republicans will still have to overcome deep dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump and ongoing concern about the economy to have success in the general election. Democrats have also shown recent voter gains in some states like Pennsylvania, reversing the registration trend for the first time in years.<\/p>\n

Party strategists brushed off the analysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublicans are being rejected in election after election since Trump returned to the White House \u2014 and Democrats are overperforming by double digits,\u201d said Viet Shelton, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn primaries across the country this year, Democrats are turning out at levels consistently dwarfing the turnout in Republican primaries,\u201d Shelton went on. \u201cIncomplete, cherry-picked data by the delusional hacks at the NRCC won\u2019t change the reality on the ground: Democrats have the momentum, formidable candidates with cross-party appeal, and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 the American people on our side. We will take back the House majority in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

All but one district included in the analysis, Colorado\u2019s 3rd, is considered a competitive House race by the Cook Political Report<\/u><\/span>. The analysis doesn\u2019t include some battleground districts in states that don\u2019t have partisan registration, like Texas or Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

It also doesn\u2019t include some key districts, like California\u2019s 22nd Congressional District and Michigan\u2019s 7th Congressional District, that are less Republican leaning and considered \u201ctoss up\u201d races by Cook.<\/p>\n

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But the ongoing registration losses for Democrats underscore how Republicans are fighting much of the 2026 midterm in increasingly conservative areas \u2014 a rightward lean that could help the GOP fortify itself against losses even in a difficult environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe national Democratic brand is just very bad,\u201d said David Kochel, a veteran Republican strategist. \u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t gotten any better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats have steadily lost registered voters since the 2020 presidential election: From 2020 to 2024, the number of registered voters declined by 2.1 million across all 30 states that track voter registration by party, The New York Times reported<\/u><\/span>. Republicans gained 2.4 million voters during that period.<\/p>\n

According to the NRCC\u2019s analysis, Republicans\u2019 total number of voters also declined by nearly 50,000 across the 28 districts. But because the Democrats lost so many more voters, the Republican Party increased its marginal registration advantage over Democrats by an average of 1.5 percentage points since 2024 \u2014 a swing of nearly 230,000 voters total.<\/p>\n

Compared to the party\u2019s registration numbers in 2020, the Democrats\u2019 losses are even more stark. The analysis found that after the 2020 election, Democrats had a 733,000 voter-registration edge on Republicans in these 28 districts. But in the nearly six years since, the party has lost 737,000 voters there, giving Republicans a small 4,100 voter-registration advantage.<\/p>\n

The analysis includes districts all over the country: Arizona\u2019s 1st and 6th; Colorado\u2019s 3rd and 8th; Florida\u2019s 9th, 14th, 22nd and 25th; Iowa\u2019s 1st, 2nd and 3rd; Maine\u2019s 2nd; North Carolina\u2019s 1st; Nebraska\u2019s 2nd; New Hampshire\u2019s 1st; New Jersey\u2019s 7th and 9th; New Mexico\u2019s 2nd; Nevada\u2019s 1st and 3rd; New York\u2019s 3rd, 4th, 17th and 19th; and Pennsylvania\u2019s 1st, 7th, 8th and 10th.<\/p>\n

In North Carolina\u2019s 1st District, the most competitive one in the state, Republicans steadily decreased the gap between their registration numbers and Democrats\u2019. In 2018, Democrats outnumbered Republican registrations by nearly 22 percentage points. Republicans have trimmed that down to an nearly 4 percentage point difference, as of May 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s really indicative of what we\u2019ve seen both locally as well as nationally, where Democrats are out of touch,\u201d said Jason Simmons, the chair of the North Carolina Republican Party. \u201cTheir policies are no longer representative of the values of North Carolinians, and especially eastern North Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n

The diminishing margins are due to new voters joining the party as well as \u201crefugees from blue states\u201d who are moving to North Carolina, Simmons said. The 1st District also added several conservative counties when the state Legislature redrew its lines last fall.<\/p>\n

The district, which spans the northeast part of the state from the Virginia border to the coast, hasn\u2019t elected a Republican to Congress since 1883.<\/p>\n

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