1966 United States House of Representatives elections information
House elections for the 90th U.S. Congress
1966 United States House of Representatives elections
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November 8, 1966
1968 →
All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives 218 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
John McCormack
Gerald Ford
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
January 10, 1962
January 3, 1965
Leader's seat
Massachusetts 9th
Michigan 5th
Last election
295 seats
140 seats
Seats won
248
187
Seat change
47
47
Popular vote
26,934,136
25,521,157
Percentage
50.9%
48.2%
Swing
6.2%
5.8%
Results: Democratic hold Democratic gain Republican hold Republican gain
Speaker before election
John McCormack
Democratic
Elected Speaker
John McCormack
Democratic
The 1966 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 1966, to elect members to serve in the 90th United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of President Lyndon B. Johnson's second term. As the Vietnam War continued to escalate and race riots exploded in cities across the country, Johnson's popularity had fallen, and the opposition Republican Party was able to gain a net of 47 seats from Johnson's Democratic Party, which nonetheless maintained a clear majority in the House. This was also the first election that occurred after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law, the first time since 1870 that a Republican won a House seat in Arkansas, and the first since 1876 that the party did so in South Carolina (after the same in a 1965 special election for the seat).[1]
^Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffrey A. (19 March 2020). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968. p. 256. ISBN 978-1107158436.
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