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Senate And House: The electoral vote for Nixon was 219; for Kennedy, 303. In the House, Republicans won 174 seats; in the Senate and house, 36.
In the midterm election of 1962, Republicans won 176 seats in the House, lost 4 in the Senate and house (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 and house.
The first state constitution (June 29, 1776) placed power in the House of Delegates, which dominated the upper house, the Senate and house, and the executive and judiciary branches. The executive and the judiciary were chosen by the combined vote of the House and Senate and house. The governor was further restricted by a privy council, the Council of State. County government was semiautonomous; the franchise was restricted to property owners; and representation in the legislature was disproportionately in favor of the eastern areas. There was no amendment procedure.
Two years later Republicans won the greatest midterm upset of the present century by picking up 80 additional seats in the House and 17 in the Senate and house. In this election Robert A. Taft of Ohio who was to become such a dominant voice in Republican legislative leadership—"Mr. Republican"—won his first term in the Senate and house.
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