How America Moves

How America Votes

1980 U.S. House election results for all 435 congressional districts, on the district boundaries used that year. Certified returns, presented as numbers only.

Democratic seats
242
Republican seats
192
Other / independent
1

District maps start with the 2022 boundaries; earlier cycles used districts that have since been redrawn. The seat results for 1980 are below.

Seats by state

StateDemocraticRepublicanOtherSeats
Alabama437
Alaska11
Arizona224
Arkansas224
California222143
Colorado325
Connecticut426
Delaware11
Florida11415
Georgia9110
Hawaii22
Idaho22
Illinois101424
Indiana6511
Iowa336
Kansas145
Kentucky437
Louisiana628
Maine22
Maryland718
Massachusetts10212
Michigan12719
Minnesota358
Mississippi325
Missouri6410
Montana112
Nebraska33
Nevada11
New Hampshire112
New Jersey8715
New Mexico22
New York221739
North Carolina7411
North Dakota11
Ohio101323
Oklahoma516
Oregon314
Pennsylvania1212125
Rhode Island112
South Carolina246
South Dakota112
Tennessee538
Texas19524
Utah22
Vermont11
Virginia1910
Washington527
West Virginia224
Wisconsin549
Wyoming11
Results compiled from certified state returns by the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (CC0); district boundaries from the U.S. Census Bureau. Numbers only, no interpretation. Election results and migration data are separate datasets; this site does not connect one to the other.