United States House of Representatives elections, 1948

1946 ←

November 2, 1948

→ 1950

All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives 218 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Sam Rayburn	Joseph Martin	Vito Marcantonio
Party	Democratic	Republican	American Labor
Leader's seat	Texas-4th	Massachusetts-14th	New York-18th
Last election	188 seats	246 seats	1 seat
Seats won	263	171	1
Seat change	75	75
Popular vote	24,217,516	20,894,960	409,789
Percentage	52.6%	45.4%	0.9%
Swing	7.6%	8.1%	0.3%

Speaker before election

Joseph Martin
Republican

Elected Speaker

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

Joseph Martin
Republican

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

The 1948 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1948 which coincided with President Harry S. Truman's reelection. Truman had campaigned against a 'do-nothing' Republican Party Congress that had opposed his initiatives and was seen as counterproductive. The Democratic Party regained control of both the House and Senate in this election. For Democrats, this was their largest gain since 1932. This was the last election to date where a member of a political party other than the Democrats or Republicans had one or more seats in the chamber.

Illinois redistricted its at-large seat into an additional geographical district for a total of 26, changing boundaries across the state and moving several seats from downstate into the Chicago suburbs.

...
Wikipedia