United States House of Representatives elections, 1950

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November 7, 1950

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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	Third party

Leader	Sam Rayburn	Joseph Martin	Vito Marcantonio
Party	Democratic	Republican	American Labor
Leader's seat	Texas-4th	Massachusetts-14th	New York-18th (defeated)
Last election	263 seats	171 seats	1 seat
Seats won	235	199	0
Seat change	28	28	1
Popular vote	19,991,683	19,735,173	225,368
Percentage	49.6%	48.9%	0.6%
Swing	3.0%	3.5%	0.3%

Speaker before election

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

The 1950 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1950 which occurred in the middle of President Harry Truman's second term.

As the Korean War began and Truman's personal popularity plummeted for a second time during his presidency, his Democratic Party lost a net 28 seats to the Republican Party. This was the first election since 1908 where no third parties acquired any seats in the House.

Three special elections were held on dates other than in November.

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