1970 United States House of Representatives elections information
House elections for the 92nd U.S. Congress
1970 United States House of Representatives elections
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November 3, 1970
1972 →
All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives 218 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
John McCormack (retired)
Gerald Ford
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
January 10, 1962
January 3, 1965
Leader's seat
Massachusetts 9th
Michigan 5th
Last election
243 seats
192 seats
Seats won
255
180
Seat change
12
12
Popular vote
29,080,212
24,352,657
Percentage
53.6%
44.9%
Swing
3.4%
3.6%
Results: Democratic hold Democratic gain Republican hold Republican gain
Speaker before election
John McCormack
Democratic
Elected Speaker
Carl Albert
Democratic
The 1970 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970, to elect members to serve in the 92nd United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of Richard M. Nixon's first term as president. His party, the Republican Party, lost a net of 12 seats to the Democratic Party, which thereby increased its majority in the House. Many viewed the results of the 1970 election as an indication of public fatigue over the ongoing Vietnam War as well as the fallout from the Kent State Massacre.
This was the first House election in which all 50 states used a single-member-district system to elect representatives instead of using at-large congressional districts.[clarification needed]
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