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United States House election, 1978

United States House of Representatives elections, 1978
United States
← 1976 November 7, 1978 1980 →

All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives
218 seats were needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
  SpeakerO'Neill.jpg JohnRhodes.jpg
Leader Tip O'Neill John Rhodes
Party Democratic Republican
Leader's seat Massachusetts-11th Arizona-1st
Last election 292 seats 143 seats
Seats won 277 158
Seat change Decrease 15 Increase 15
Popular vote 29,317,222 24,464,665
Percentage 53.7% 44.8%
Swing Decrease 2.2% Increase 2.5%

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Speaker before election

Tip O'Neill
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Tip O'Neill
Democratic


Tip O'Neill
Democratic

Tip O'Neill
Democratic

The 1978 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1978 which occurred in the middle of President Jimmy Carter's term, when the country was going through an energy crisis and facing rapid inflation. The President's Democratic Party lost seats to the opposition Republican Party, in this case a net of 15 meaning the loss of their two-thirds majority but the Democrats still retained a rather large majority. As of 2017, this was the last midterm election where the Democrats managed to maintain a majority under a Democratic president.

Notable freshmen included future Vice President Dick Cheney (R-Wy.), future Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), future Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), future U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Me.), and future vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro (D-N.Y.).

Future president George W. Bush was the Republican nominee for a seat in Texas, but lost.


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