United States House of Representatives elections, 1964

1962 ←

November 3, 1964

→ 1966

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-12th	Michigan-5th
Last election	258 seats	176 seats
Seats won	295	140
Seat change	37	36
Popular vote	37,643,960	27,912,576
Percentage	57.1%	42.4%
Swing	4.7%	4.7%

Speaker before election

John McCormack
Democratic

Elected Speaker

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.

Summary of the November 3, 1964, election results

While the GOP performed badly nationally, Goldwater's tremendous success in the Deep South led to the election of several Republicans to the House from those states, many of them the first Republicans elected there since Reconstruction. These "Goldwater Republicans" were elected:

Alabama, which had not agreed on a redistricting plan until 1964 and had elected all members at-large in 1962, went back to electing from districts. While most of the at-large representatives were former district representatives and were thus geographically diverse, the 1st district near Mobile lacked an incumbent, and neither of the incumbents who lived in the 7th district were nominated.

Connecticut eliminated its at-large seat and redistricted from 5 districts to 6, creating a new district in the northwestern part of the state.

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