1954 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1954 Midterm elections November 2 Republican Party (US)Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 84th 38 of 96 seats(32 Class 2 seats + 9 special elections)The Class 2 Senate seats in Nebraska, North Carolina, and Wyoming each held a regularly-scheduled election and a special election in 1954. These three seats are not double-counted for the total number of seats contested. Democratic gain Democratic +2 1954 Senate election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold All 435 voting seats Democratic gain Democratic +5.5% Democratic +19 400px 34 Democratic +8 1954 gubernatorial election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold #F48882 Republican hold Elections were held on November 2, 1954. The election took place in the middle of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower's first term. In the election, the Republicans lost the Congressional majorities which they had won in the previous election; Democratic gains were modest, but were enough for the party to win back control of both chambers of Congress. In the House, the Republicans lost eighteen seats to the Democratic Party, losing control of the chamber. The Republicans would not retake the House until 1994.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives https://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 The Republicans also lost control of the U.S. Senate, losing two seats to the Democrats.Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1954 1955 https://books.google.com/books?id=-joPGUKF-OsC U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk 1 March 2021Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 1954 (Revision) https://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1954election.pdf U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk 27 December 2011 The Republicans would not retake control of the Senate until 1980.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 A contribution to the Republican reversal was backlash against GOP-driven McCarthyism and the numerous controversies it spawned, including the Army–McCarthy hearings. Other factors included a comment made in Detroit by Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, former president of General Motors, equating unemployed auto workers with "lazy kennel dogs who sit... and yell."Ambrose Stephen Eisenhower: Soldier and President 1991 Simon and Schuster 9780671747589 375 However, it has been pointed out that losses in the midterm election were considerably less than the White House party generally faces in the midterm elections, and this has been attributed to the overall popularity of President Eisenhower, who participated in the campaign along with Vice-President Richard Nixon and other members of the cabinet.Ambrose Stephen Eisenhower: Soldier and President 1991 Simon and Schuster 9780671747589 375 See also 1954 United States House of Representatives elections 1954 United States Senate elections 1954 United States gubernatorial elections References collapsed 1954 Category:United States midterm elections Category:November 1954 in the United States