United States House of Representatives elections, 1958

1956 ←

November 4, 1958

→ 1960

All 437 seats to the United States House of Representatives 219 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Sam Rayburn	Charles Halleck
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	Texas-4th	Indiana-2nd
Last election	234 seats	201 seats
Seats won	283	153
Seat change	49	48
Popular vote	25,604,679	19,931,409
Percentage	56.0%	43.6%
Swing	4.8%	5.1%

Speaker before election

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

The 1958 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1958 which occurred in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's second term.

The economy was suffering the Recession of 1958, which Democrats blamed on Eisenhower. The President's Republican Party lost 48 seats in this midterm election, increasing the Democratic Party's majority to a commanding level. Another factor which may have contributed to the Democratic gains include public consternation over the launch of Sputnik and Cold War politics.

¹ Increase is due to the admission of Alaska and Hawaii, whose seats were temporarily additional to the usual 435, until reapportionment following 1960.

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He was elected in 1958 as a Democrat to the 85th United States Congress, by special election, January 21, 1958, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Augustine Kelley.

Texas eliminated its at-large district and added a new 22nd district formed from part of the Houston area 8th district.

Washington redistricted its at-large seat into a 7th district formed in the Seattle suburbs designed to include the at-large incumbent Don Magnuson's residence.

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