United States House of Representatives elections, 1970

United States House of Representatives elections, 1970

1968 ← November 3, 1970 → 1972

All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives 218 seats were needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party   Leader Carl Albert Gerald Ford Party Democratic Republican Leader's seat Oklahoma-3rd Michigan-5th Last election 243 seats 192 seats Seats won 255 180 Seat change 12 12 Popular vote 29,080,212 24,352,657 Percentage 53.6% 44.9% Swing 3.4% 3.6%

Speaker before election John McCormack Democratic Elected Speaker Carl Albert Democratic

John McCormack
Democratic

Carl Albert
Democratic

The 1970 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970, in the middle of President Richard M. Nixon's first term. The President's Republican Party lost seats, in this case a net of 12, to the Democratic Party, which thus increased modestly its majority in the House. Many viewed the results as the American public showing fatigue over the ongoing Vietnam War. This was also the first House election when all 50 states were using the same regional single-member district system to elect Representatives instead of using at-large congressional districts.

Summary of the November 3, 1970, election results

One Democratic seat was lost to Republicans. Democrats, therefore, retained a 20-18 margin over Republicans.

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