United_States_House_elections,_1966

1966 United States House of Representatives elections

1966 United States House of Representatives elections

House elections for the 90th U.S. Congress


The 1966 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives on November 8, 1966, to elect members to serve in the 90th United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of President Lyndon B. Johnson's second term. As the Vietnam War continued to escalate and race riots exploded in cities across the country, Johnson's popularity had fallen, and the opposition Republican Party was able to gain a net of 47 seats from Johnson's Democratic Party, which nonetheless maintained a clear majority in the House. This was also the first election that occurred after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law, the first time since 1870 that a Republican won a House seat in Arkansas, and the first since 1876 that the party did so in South Carolina (after the same in a 1965 special election for the seat).[1]

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Overall results

248 187
Democrat Republican
Parties Seats Popular Vote
1964 1966 Change Strength Vote  % Change
Democratic Party 295 248 Decrease 47 57.0% 26,934,136 50.9% Decrease 6.2%
Republican Party 140 187 Increase 47 43.0% 25,521,157 48.2% Increase 5.8%
Conservative Party 208,756 0.4% Increase 0.3%
Independent 85,641 0.2% Steady
Liberal Party 75,303 0.1% Decrease 0.1%
Peace and Freedom Party 16,922 <0.1% Steady
American Independent Party 14,461 <0.1% Steady
Constitution Party 11,110 <0.1% Steady
Socialist Labor Party 5,771 <0.1% Steady
Independent-Socialist Party 3,502 <0.1% Steady
New Hispano Party 2,263 <0.1% Steady
People's Choice Party 1,299 <0.1% Steady
Socialist Workers Party 1,014 <0.1% Steady
Veteran Party 939 <0.1% Steady
Others 29,701 0.1% Increase 0.1%
Total 435 435 0 100.0% 52,901,975 100.0% ——

Source: Election Statistics – Office of the Clerk

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1 One vacancy due to refusal of House to seat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (D-New York)

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Alaska

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California

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Delaware

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Florida

Florida redistricted to adjust for demographic changes; in addition to minor boundary changes a district was removed from northern Florida, and Broward County was broken out into its own district.[2]

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Georgia

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Illinois

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Indiana

Indiana redistricted for this election, election boundary changes forced two Republican incumbents into the same district while creating a new district that was won by another Republican.[2]

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Iowa

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Kansas

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Maine

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Maryland

Maryland redistricted its at-large district into an 8th district around Montgomery County, managing to adjust boundaries so no existing incumbents were displaced.[2]

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Montana

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Nevada

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New Hampshire

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New Jersey

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New Mexico

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New York

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North Carolina

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North Dakota

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Ohio

Ohio redistricted its at-large seat into a 24th district, splitting out the counties to the southwest of Dayton from the city itself, as well as moving a district in southeastern Ohio into the Columbus area.[2]

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Oklahoma

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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Rhode Island

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South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Texas

Texas redistricted for this election, eliminating its at-large district and removing two East Texas districts in favor of adding three districts in South Texas, suburban Houston, and suburban Dallas.[2]

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Utah

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Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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See also


References

  1. Heersink, Boris; Jenkins, Jeffrey A. (19 March 2020). Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968. p. 256. ISBN 978-1107158436.
  2. Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789–1989. Prentice Hall College Div. ISBN 0-02-920170-5.

Further reading

  • "1966 Elections–A Major Republican Comeback." in CQ Almanac 1966 (22nd ed., 1967) pp 1387–88. online
  • Anderson, Totton J.; Lee, Eugene C. (1967). "The 1966 Election in California". The Western Political Quarterly. 20 (2): 535–554. doi:10.2307/446081. ISSN 0043-4078. JSTOR 446081., plus articles on the other western states in the same issue
  • 1946 Congressional elections. Congressional Quarterly. 1998.
  • Erikson, Robert J. (1972). "Malapportionment, Gerrymandering, and Party Fortunes in Congressional Elections". American Political Science Review. 66 (12–38): 1234–1245. doi:10.2307/1957176. JSTOR 1957176. S2CID 145806972., Focus on 1966
  • Hathorn, Billy (1987–1988). "The Frustration of Opportunity: Georgia Republicans and the Election of 1966". Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. 31 (4): 37–52.
  • McLay, Mark. "A High-Wire Crusade: Republicans and the War on Poverty, 1966." Journal of Policy History 31.3 (2019): 382–405.
  • Sullivan, John L.; O'Connor, Robert E. (1972). "Electoral Choice and Popular Control of Public Policy: The Case of the 1966 House Elections". The American Political Science Review. 66 (4): 1256–1268. doi:10.2307/1957178. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1957178. S2CID 147328869.

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