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Majority Of House Seats: Republicans barely won a majority of House seats in the 1930 midterm elections, and because of special elections to fill vacancies, the Democrats took control of the House in the 72d Congress meeting in December 1931. In the Senate, Republicans had a plurality of one, the balance of power being held by a Farmer-Laborite.
Hiram Johnson, popular leader o the Republican progressive forces. Republican gained seats in both branches of the nations legislature but not enough for control.During Wilson's second term, Republican! joined with Democrats in voting for participatipc in World War I, and Republicans supported Wilson by a strong majority on most war measure roll calls between April 1917 and the summer oi 5. In the mid-term elections, Wilson's call for temocratic Congress was ineffective, and Re-licans recaptured the House—240 seats to 190 the Democrats and also won the Senate 49 7.
The electoral vote for Nixon was 219; for Kennedy, 303. In the House, Republicans won 174 seats; in the Senate, 36.
In the midterm election of 1962, Republicans won 176 seats in the House, lost 4 in the Senate (for a total of 32), and won 17 governorships. Significant gains were the election of attractive gubernatorial candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oklahoma. GOP votes in the South for the House of Representatives rose from 606,000 in 1958 to 2,084,000 in 1962—a growth of 244 percent. In 1961, Texas sent its first Republican to the U S. Senate.
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