How many House districts are there? I'm curious to figure out how many

[applegrove]

people will/are hired for this election. Cause that should help the unemployment rate.

[jmowreader]

1. There are 435 House districts

It won't help all that much, because campaigns tend to have lots of volunteer labor.

[applegrove]

2. So would it be 50 thousand people hired? Especially in these last two months?

[WI_DEM]

5. well maybe election day workers at the polls--but otherwise most campaigns

depend on volunteers. However with Romney, who knows? maybe the only way he can get help is to pay people.

[onenote]

6. A teeny tiny fraction of that

There is little need for hiring related to the election. On election day, most of the workers who assist with the voting are volunteers -- and they work for one day (or part of one day). As for the campaigns themselves -- again it is mostly volunteers. I doubt that many congressional candidates have more than a handful of paid staffers.

[NYC Liberal]

10. Nope. There are 441 House DISTRICTS.

Don't forget the Congressional districts for territories. They elect delegates rather than full representatives, but House delegate do vote in committees, receive a salary and benefits, and (pertinent to the OP's question) have a staff.

At-large Congressional districts for US territories:

American Samoa
District of Columbia
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
United States Virgin Islands

435 full representatives, but 441 Congressional districts.

[Bohunk68]

3. With that many posts

I find it incredible that you would ask what you did. Seriously. You really, really didn't know how many House districts?

[davidpdx]

4. Alright, be nice

The OP clearly didn't think that one through.

[Bohunk68]

7. I was being nice.

[applegrove]

8. I'm from Canada. I did not get into American politics till I was an adult.

[TeamPooka]

9. You are sentenced to watch every segment of Better Know a District on the Colbert Report nt

[applegrove]

11. LOL!