Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1966

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On November 8, 1966, the United States ' House of Representatives was elected. The election was part of the general election for the 90th United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of the first full term of office of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson ( midterm election ), they were also considered a vote on the previous policy of the president.

The number of MPs to be elected was 435. The distribution of seats was based on the 1960 census .

In the elections, the Democrats lost 47 seats compared to the last election in 1964. Nevertheless, they were able to maintain their absolute majority with 248 seats. The Republicans won 47 seats and now came to 187 congressmen. The reason for the turnaround in favor of the Republicans was primarily due to the unpopular Vietnam War and increasing race riots in many American cities. Both harmed the Democrats and their formerly popular President Johnson, who was blamed for American intervention in Vietnam.

Election result

Total: 435 (435)

The results of the last election two years earlier are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the original election per se are not included in these figures, but are noted in the article on the 90th Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the appropriate names of the representatives. As a result, the sources sometimes contain different information, as changes during the legislative period were sometimes incorporated into the figures and sometimes not. The election result shown is based on the source below (Party Divisions).

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