Pete Stark (D-CA), the only openly non-theistic Congressperson, won his bid for re-election.
According to the Secular Coalition for America:
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) is the only member of Congress who is on record as not holding a god-belief, the first such Congress member in history.
More from the Secular Coalition for America:
"This year, we saw an incumbent U.S. Senator not only defeated but roundly criticized after trying to paint her opponent as godless; and now we see an openly godless member of the House handily re-elected," said Herb Silverman, president of the Secular Coalition for America. "This looks to us like progress, and we praise Rep. Stark for his courage and leadership."
Surveys vary as to the number of atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheists in the U.S., with about 16% (over 50 million people) a reasonable estimate, making this a larger group than Jews, Presbyterians, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and Roman and Greek Orthodox combined. "If the number of nontheists in Congress reflected their numbers in the larger population," observed Lori Lipman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition, "there would be 86 nontheistic Congress members instead of one."
If the name Lori Lipman Brown sounds familiar, you may be a frequent viewer of The Colbert Report. She's been a guest several times.
My favorite sentence:
In an election year when national candidates' religious beliefs were given unprecedented importance, the Coalition sees Stark's re-election, with 76% of the votes in his district, as a sign that religious tests for candidates may become less common.
What's really interesting about Stark's race is that originally, the Republican party didn't even try to have anyone run against him this election cycle.
From SFGate:
Raymond Chui told me that he has never run before for office, but decided to pay the $1,552 filing fee and throw his hat in the ring, because, "To be honest, just because nobody else was doing it, and I can't believe it." How can the Republican Party not put up an opponent? he asked.
As Chui sees it, Stark is too liberal and "just very rude." Someone had to run against him, so Chui stepped in.