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Congress, made up of the 435 House and the 100 Senate seats, has two different election cycles. House seats are up for re-election every two years during even numbered years, and Senate seats are re-elected every six years. There are 469 seats in the U.S. Congress that are up for the 2016 election â 34 Senate seats and 435 House seats. On your ballot, there are options for a U.S. Senator and for U.S. Representative.
In November of 2004, 401 of the 435 sitting members of the U.S. House of Representatives sought reelection. Of those 401, all but five were reelected. In other words, incumbents seeking reelection to the House had a better than 99% success rate.In the U.S. Senate, only one incumbent seeking reelection was defeated.aving waged at least one previous campaign, and a successful one at that, and then serving in Congress for two years (House members) or six years (Senators) makes a sitting member of Congress something of a household name among his or her constituents.