1970 United States House of Representatives elections

1970 United States House of Representatives elections
All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives; 218 seats needed for a majority
	Results:; Democratic hold Democratic gain; Republican hold Republican gain
Speaker before election; John McCormack; Democratic	Elected Speaker ; Carl Albert; Democratic

The 1970 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970, to elect members to serve in the 92nd United States Congress. They occurred in the middle of Richard M. Nixon's first term as president. His party, the Republican Party, lost a net of 12 seats to the Democratic Party, which thereby increased its majority in the House.

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Pursuant to the Uniform Congressional District Act, this was the first House election since the 1930 elections in which all 50 states used a single-member-district system to elect representatives instead of using at-large congressional districts.

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401 incumbent members sought reelection, but 10 were defeated in primaries and 12 defeated in the general election for a total of 379 incumbents winning.^[1]

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255	180
Democratic	Republican

Summary of the November 3, 1970, election results

Parties		Seats				Popular Vote
Parties		1968	1970	Change	Strength	Vote	%	Change
	Democratic Party	243	255	12	58.6%	29,080,212	53.6%	3.4%
	Republican Party	192	180	12	41.4%	24,352,657	44.9%	3.6%
	Conservative Party	——	——	——	——	230,180	0.4%
	American Independent Party	——	——	——	——	132,992	0.2%	0.1%
	Independent	——	——	——	——	122,430	0.2%	0.1%
	Liberal Party	——	——	——	——	67,696	0.1%
	National Democratic Party	——	——	——	——	67,228	0.1%
	Constitution Party	——	——	——	——	46,100	0.1%
	Peace and Freedom Party	——	——	——	——	40,763	0.1%
	Socialist Workers Party	——	——	——	——	9,675	<0.1%
	Raza Unida Party	——	——	——	——	7,085	<0.1%
	A Public Party	——	——	——	——	5,774	<0.1%
	Right to Life Party	——	——	——	——	5,342	<0.1%
	Dodd Independent Party	——	——	——	——	5,062	<0.1%
	Liberty Union Party	——	——	——	——	4,315	<0.1%
	Urban Tax Reform Party	——	——	——	——	3,675	<0.1%
	American Party	——	——	——	——	2,759	<0.1%
	Common Peoples' Party	——	——	——	——	1,727	<0.1%
	Buffalo Party	——	——	——	——	1,724	<0.1%
	Iowa New Party	——	——	——	——	1,262	<0.1%
	Socialist Labor Party	——	——	——	——	973	<0.1%
	For the People Party	——	——	——	——	823	<0.1%
	The O'Hara Bill Party	——	——	——	——	518	<0.1%
	Communist Party	——	——	——	——	374	<0.1%
	Progressive Labor Socialist Party	——	——	——	——	208	<0.1%
	Others	——	——	——	——	67,331	0.1%	0.1%
Total		435	435	0	100.0%	54,258,885	100.0%	——
Source: Election Statistics – Office of the Clerk

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Popular vote

Democratic			53.60%
Republican			44.88%
Others			1.52%

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House seats

Democratic			58.62%
Republican			41.38%

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