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If you add in three incumbents who ran but lost in primaries, the incumbent winning percentage drops to 95.9 percent. Of the remaining 386 incumbents, 373 won, for a winning percentage of 96.6 percent. Of those, four haven’t had their races called as of Nov. In the House, we counted 390 incumbents who ran on Election Day. There are a few contests still to be decided, but there are enough settled that we can make a pretty close count. To be consistent with the polling, which covers Congress broadly, we’ll lump together the incumbent winning percentages in both the House and Senate. Were 96.4 percent of congressional incumbents re-elected? That averages out to 14 percent - slightly higher than 11 percent, but in the same, miserable ballpark.

NBC News/ Wall Street Journal: "In general, do you approve or disapprove of the job that Congress is doing?" 12 percent said "approve.".

Congress is doing its job?" 20 percent said "approve."

ABC News/ Washington Post: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way the U.S.

CNN/ORC: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?" 13 percent said "approve.".

CBS News: "Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?" 14 percent said "approve.".

Fox News: "Do you approve or disapprove of the job Congress is doing?" 13 percent said "approve.".

We found congressional approval scores from October 2014 from five different pollsters on the poll-archive website :

While the meme features a picture of the House chamber, the most common polling question refers to Congress generally, rather than the House specifically, so we looked at Congress’ approval ratings overall. We wondered whether that was true, so we took a look.ĭoes Congress have 11 percent approval ratings? The text was superimposed over a photograph of the House chamber in the Capitol. 96.4% re-elected" - in other words, Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected in 2014. According to the 2014 exit poll of voters, 59 percent of those who voted said they weren’t happy with Republican leadership in Congress, even as they were handing control of the Senate to the GOP.Ī meme making its way around social media, sent to PolitiFact by a reader, captured the frustration many Americans felt. It would be an understatement to say that voters in the recently completed midterm elections didn’t exactly feel warm and fuzzy about incumbents on the ballot this year - even about the ones they voted for.