1970 United States elections
| Midterm elections | |
| Election day | November 3 |
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| Senate elections | |
| Seats contested | 35 of 100 seats (33 seats of Class 1 + 2 special elections) |
| Net change | Republican +1[1] |
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| 1970 Senate election results
Democratic gain Democratic hold |
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| House elections | |
| Seats contested | All 435 voting seats |
| Net change | Democratic +12 |
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| 1970 House of Representatives election results
Democratic gain Democratic hold |
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| Gubernatorial elections | |
| Seats contested | 37 (35 states, 2 territories) |
| Net change | Democratic +11 |
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| 1970 gubernatorial election results Territorial races not shown Democratic gain Democratic hold |
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The 1970 United States elections were held on November 3, and elected the members of the 92nd United States Congress. The election took place during the Vietnam War, in the middle of Republican President Richard Nixon's first term. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew campaigned heavily for Republican candidates, with Nixon encouraging voters to "show their displeasure with violent dissenters by voting the Republican ticket on election day."[2] However, the Democratic Party retained its Senate majority and increased its majority in the House.
In the House of Representatives, the Democrats picked up twelve seats at the expense of the Republican Party.[3]
In the Senate, Republicans picked up two seats and James L. Buckley won election as a member of the Conservative Party of New York. As of 2016, Buckley is the most recently elected third party member of Congress, although several independents have since won election to Congress.[4]
Until 2018, this was the last midterm election cycle where a sitting President's party simultaneously made net gains in one chamber of Congress but net losses in another chamber.
See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 1970
- United States Senate elections, 1970
- United States gubernatorial elections, 1970
References
- ↑ Republicans gained two seats in the regularly-scheduled elections but lost one seat in a special election.
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- ↑ Joe Lieberman won re-election in 2006 on the Connecticut for Lieberman party line, but this transient party was created only after Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination and Lieberman served in the Senate as an independent Democrat.
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