United States House of Representatives elections, 1964

The elections to the House of Representatives in the United States in 1964 were held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964. The choice was between all 435 seats of the Congress chamber, the Democrats were able to expand their majority on. The Republicans lost a number of seats. In parallel, he was elected to the Senate and the presidential election in 1964.

Choice and earnings

The elections took place one year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and proceeded generally unfavorable to the opposition Republicans. The Democrats were able to extend their previously clear majority of 258 seats to 295 seats of the 435 -member Congress chamber. The Democrats were thus also in the House of Representatives a two-thirds majority. Also in the Senate, they had expanded their seat number 68 of the 100 seats.

The newly elected House of Representatives was constituted as provided by the Constitution on the third day of the following January, so on January 3, 1965. Thereupon was elected to the Democratic majority John W. McCormack again to the Speaker of the House. New opposition leader and leader of the Republicans was the later U.S. President Gerald Ford of Michigan.

The election result meant that the confirmed case of parallel presidential election took place in office, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a large majority to implement his reform program the Great Society.