United States House elections, 1964

United States House of Representatives elections, 1964

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All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives 218 seats were needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader John McCormack Gerald Ford Party Democratic Republican Leader's seat Massachusetts-9th Michigan-5th Last election 258 seats 176 seats Seats won 295 140 Seat change 37 36 Popular vote 37,643,960 27,916,576 Percentage 57.1% 42.4% Swing 4.7% 4.7%
Speaker before election John McCormack Democratic Elected Speaker John McCormack Democratic

John McCormack
Democratic

John McCormack
Democratic

The 1964 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1964 which coincided with the election of President Lyndon Johnson. Johnson's landslide victory over Barry Goldwater allowed his Democratic Party to gain a net of 36 seats from the Republican Party, giving them a two-thirds majority in the House. This is the largest House majority held by either party since 1936. The election also marked the first time since Reconstruction that Republicans made inroads in the deep South. Notable freshmen included future Speaker of the House Tom Foley, future Senator and Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams, future Senators John V. Tunney, John Culver, and William Hathaway, future Governor of Ohio John J. Gilligan, future Secretary of the Army Bo Callaway, future Lieutenant Governor of California Edwin Reinecke, and former Mayor of Dallas Earle Cabell.

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