The Top 25 House Districts Democrats Are Most Likely to Flip: Week 4
IA-01 was our biggest mover of the week after we changed its rating to D Advantage


The Top 25 House Districts Democrats Are Most Likely to Flip: Week 4
IA-01 was our biggest mover of the week after we changed its rating to D Advantage

Each week until Election Day, The Caucus ranks the 25 Republican-held House seats Democrats are most likely to win. Each list reflects where the races stand that week rather than how we think they will end. The final edition will run the Monday before the election.
Third-quarter fundraising totals started landing two weeks before the Oct. 15 deadline, and at least 13 House Democrats have put out a number. Cait Conley leads everyone with $5 million in NY-17. Bobby Pulido took in $3.4 million in TX-15 and JoAnna Mendoza $3.3 million in AZ-06. The average first-time House candidate in 2022 raised about $2.9 million across an entire cycle.
IA-01 is the week’s big mover, up 13 spots to 7th after we moved the race to D Advantage. Christina Bohannan reported $2.7 million for the quarter. Outside groups filed just under $2 million in the district in the week ending Sept. 30, and the two sides finished within $170,000 of each other.
PA-07 takes 4th on the same upgrade. Bob Brooks raised $2.5 million and held a 45-40 advantage in the Franklin & Marshall poll that moved him up last week. The Congressional Leadership Fund put $1.1 million against him over those same seven days, while every Democratic group spending in the district combined for $388,000.
OH-07 dropped three spots to 22nd. Of the $829,000 in outside money filed there in the week ending Sept. 30, $817,000 came from a single Democratic group. Republicans filed $12,000, but it was a week after the Congressional Leadership Fund booked $4.9 million for Max Miller.
MI-07 slips two to 19th. Spending there ran close to even at about $2 million, but the money behind William Lawrence came from House Majority PAC, NRDC Action Votes and the LCV Victory Fund. His own campaign trailed Tom Barrett $6.3 million to $1.2 million at the last filing.
Shannon Taylor’s $2 million quarter in VA-01 keeps her at 24th, ahead of IA-02 and CO-05.
We’re four weeks out. Here is Week 4 of The Caucus Top 25, with how much each seat moved since last week:
| CAUCUS+ TOP 25 · WEEK 4 · 4 WEEKS OUT | ||
1 | UT-01 Ben McAdams vs. Riley Owen · open, redistricted | Safe D |
2 | CA-01 Mike McGuire vs. James Gallagher · redistricted | Safe D |
3 | NJ-07 Rebecca Bennett vs. Tom Kean Jr. | D Advantage |
4 ▲3 | PA-07 Bob Brooks vs. Ryan Mackenzie | D Advantage |
5 ▼1 | NE-02 Denise Powell vs. Brinker Harding · open | D Advantage |
6 ▼1 | CA-48 Marni von Wilpert vs. Jim Desmond · open, redistricted | D Advantage |
7 ▲13 | IA-01 Christina Bohannan vs. Mariannette Miller-Meeks | D Advantage |
8 ▼2 | NY-17 Cait Conley vs. Mike Lawler | Toss up |
9 ▼1 | AZ-01 Amish Shah vs. Jay Feely · open | Toss up |
10 ▼1 | VA-02 Elaine Luria vs. Jen Kiggans | Toss up |
11 ▼1 | AZ-06 JoAnna Mendoza vs. Juan Ciscomani | Toss up |
12 ▼1 | CA-22 Randy Villegas vs. David Valadao · redistricted | Toss up |
13 ▼1 | CO-08 Manny Rutinel vs. Gabe Evans | Toss up |
14 ▼1 | PA-10 Janelle Stelson vs. Scott Perry | Toss up |
15 ▼1 | IA-03 Sarah Trone Garriott vs. Zach Nunn | Toss up |
16 ▼1 | MI-10 Christina Hines vs. Michael Bouchard Jr. · open | Toss up |
17 ▼1 | WI-03 Rebecca Cooke vs. Derrick Van Orden | Toss up |
18 | MI-04 Sean McCann vs. Bill Huizenga | Toss up |
19 ▼2 | MI-07 William Lawrence vs. Tom Barrett | Toss up |
20 ▲1 | TX-15 Bobby Pulido vs. Monica De La Cruz | Toss up |
21 ▲1 | PA-08 Paige Cognetti vs. Rob Bresnahan | Toss up |
22 ▼3 | OH-07 Brian Poindexter vs. Max Miller | Toss up |
23 | KY-06 Zach Dembo vs. Ralph Alvarado · open | R Advantage |
24 | VA-01 Shannon Taylor vs. Rob Wittman | R Advantage |
25 | NC-11 Jamie Ager vs. Jennifer Balkcom · open | R Advantage |
| ▲ toward a Democratic flip, ▼ away. | ||
Democrats hold 214 seats. Two are vacant, one from each party, so neither changes the math. Democrats need a net gain of three to reach 218.
According to The Caucus ratings, there are 19 toss-ups, 14 seats where Democrats have an advantage, 12 where we expect the Democratic candidate to win, and 185 safe Democratic seats. We rate 11 races as currently having a GOP advantage, 17 expected Republican districts and 177 safe ones.
| HOUSE RATINGS SUMMARY · DEMOCRATS NEED 218 | |||||
| CATEGORY | SEATS | D TOTAL | |||
| Safe D | 185 | 185 | |||
| Expected D | 12 | 197 | |||
| D Advantage | 14 | 211 | |||
| Toss up | 19 | ||||
| R Advantage | 11 | ||||
| Expected R | 17 | ||||
| Safe R | 177 | ||||
HELD NOW ![]() 214 Democratic 218 Republican 1 independent 2 vacant | |||||
| Both vacancies are holds, TX-23 for Republicans and FL-20 for Democrats, so Democrats count 215 toward 218. They reach 211 without the toss ups and 230 with all of them. | |||||
(Photo: Christina Bohannan, via Christina Bohannan for Iowa Facebook)

