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This list reports the religious affiliation of the members of the United States Senate in the 118th United States Congress. In most cases, in addition to specific sources, the senators' religious affiliations are those mentioned by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life at the Pew Research Center, which publishes a report at the beginning of ...
- Little Change Between 116th and 117th Congresses For Most Religious Groups
- Differences by Chamber
- Differences by Party
- First-Time Members
- Looking Back
The overall composition of the new Congress is similar to that of the previous Congress – in part because 464 of the 531 members of the 117th Congress (87%) are returning members. Methodists saw the largest loss – seven seats – followed closely by Baptists (six seats) and Catholics (five seats). There also are four fewer Lutherans in the 117th Cong...
Most members of the House and Senate are Christians, with the House just slightly more Christian than the Senate (88% vs. 87%). And both chambers have a Protestant majority – 55% of representatives are Protestant, as are 59% of senators. Within Protestantism, the largest differences are in Presbyterians (3% in the House vs. 12% in the Senate) and P...
Fully 99% of Republicans in Congress identify as Christians. There are two Jewish Republicans in the House, Reps. Lee Zeldin of New York and David Kustoff of Tennessee. New York Rep. Chris Jacobs declined to specify a religious affiliation. All other Republicans in the 117th Congress identify as Christian in some way. Most Republican members of Con...
While the small freshman class of the 117th Congress does little to change the overall makeup of the body, there are some notable differences in religious affiliation between incumbents and freshmen. The freshman class is slightly moreChristian than its incumbent counterpart. Just six of the 67 new members are not Christian: Three are Jewish, one i...
While the U.S. population continues to become less Christian, Congress has held relatively steady in recent years and has remained heavily Christian. In the 87th Congress (which began in 1961), the earliest for which aggregated religion data is available, 95% of members were Christian, which closely matched the roughly 93% of Americans who identifi...
Religious affiliation of members of 117th Congress. Note: Data in this report covers members of Congress sworn in on Jan. 3, 2021. One contested election, in New York’s 22nd District, was uncalled by the start of the new Congress. Congressman-elect Luke J. Letlow of Louisiana’s 5th District died before the swearing-in; his seat will go ...
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Jan 3, 2023 · Catholics account for a slightly greater share of House than Senate members (28% and 26%, respectively). There are eight Orthodox Christians in the House, but none in the Senate. Looking at non-Christian religions, Jews have a wider presence in the Senate (9%) than in the House (6%).
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Jan 5, 2021 · This chart shows the number of seats filled in the U.S. House and Senate by religion in 2021.
Jan 5, 2021 · A whopping 98.9% of Republicans in the House and Senate identify as Christian. While 77.8% of Congress’ Democrats are Christian, as well, that 21 percentage point difference points to the fact that the Democratic Party is more generally more diverse than the GOP.
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Jan 3, 2019 · The number of members who prefer not to specify a religious affiliation doubled in the House between the 115th Congress and the 116th – they now number 14. In the Senate, there are four members who do not specify a religion, up from three who said this in the previous Congress.
