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Republicans regained control of the U.S. House they had lost in the 2006 midterm election, picking up a net total of 63 seats and erasing the gains Democrats made in 2006 and 2008. Although the sitting president's party usually loses seats in a midterm election, the 2010 election resulted in the highest losses by a party in a House midterm ...
The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the House of Representatives and gained seats in the Senate despite Democrats holding Senate control.
The 2010 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2010, from among the United States Senate's 100 seats. A special election was held on January 19, 2010, for a midterm vacancy in Massachusetts. 34 of the November elections were for 6-year terms to the Senate's Class 3, while other 3 were special elections to finish incomplete terms.
In a February 2010 interview with National Journal, he said that "it's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House. It's very hard." [8] Rasmussen Reports. On November 1, 2010, Scott Rasmussen predicted the Democrats "will likely lose 55 or more seats in the House." [9] Rothenberg Political Report.
The 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state legislatures.
A 2018 Oklahoma general election ballot, listing candidates for state and local offices, as well as those for U.S. Congress. Midterm elections in the United States are the general elections that are held near the midpoint of a president's four-year term of office, on Election Day on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November.
2010 United Kingdom general election results in England; 2010 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland; Boundary changes for the 2010 United Kingdom general election; English Democrats Party election results; List of MPs standing down at the 2010 United Kingdom general election; List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
Official list of current members; Rules of the House; Legislative information and archives for US House and Senate, via Congress.gov; Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present; A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825; Complete Downloadable List of U.S. Representative Contact Information, via AggData ...