1974 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 March 2021 1974 Midterm elections November 5 Republican Party (US)Gerald Ford (R) 94th 34 of 100 seats Democratic hold Democratic +4 1974 Senate election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold All 435 voting seats Democratic hold Democratic +16.8% Democratic +45 400px 1974 House of Representatives election results #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold 37 (35 states, 2 territories) Democratic +4 1974 gubernatorial election resultsTerritorial races not shown #0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#808080 Independent gain Elections were held on November 5, 1974. The elections occurred in the wake of the Watergate scandal and three months into the term of Republican President Gerald Ford. Democrats expanded their majorities in both houses of Congress. Ford's granting of a pardon to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, along with soaring inflation caused by the 1973 oil crisis, created a tough environment for the Republican Party. Democrats won net gains of four seats in the Senate, 49 seats in the House of Representatives, and four seats in the gubernatorial elections. Many of the newly elected Democrats were Northern liberals, shifting the balance of power away from conservative Southern Democrats. Federal elections United States Senate 1974 United States Senate elections The Democrats made a net gain of total four Senate seats from the Republicans. Democrat John A. Durkin won a special election in New Hampshire after the Senate voided the original contested election. After the special election, Democrats possessed 60 seats to 38 for the Republicans, with one independent who caucused with the Democrats and one Conservative who caucused with the Republicans. United States House of Representatives 1974 United States House of Representatives elections The Democrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 16.8 points.Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 1974 http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1974election.pdf U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk 10 April 2017 This translated to a net gain of 49 seats from the Republicans, increasing the party's majority above the two-thirds mark. Many of the newly elected Democrats in the House and Senate were liberal northerners (known as Watergate Babies), and the influx of liberals moved power away from the conservative southern Democrats who held most committee chairs in both houses.Sinclair Barbara Party Wars https://archive.org/details/partywarspolariz00sinc_0 registration 187–188 2006 University of Oklahoma Press 9780806137797 State elections 1974 United States gubernatorial elections The Democratic Party picked up a net of four seats in the gubernatorial elections and picked up four seats in U.S. Senate as well. References 1974 Category:United States midterm elections Category:November 1974 in the United States