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The 49th Texas Legislature met from January 9, 1945, to June 5, 1945. All members present during this session were elected in the 1944 general elections. All members present during this session were elected in the 1944 general elections.
Elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress.In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.
Notable landslide election results 1906 – Henry Campbell-Bannerman led his Liberal Party to victory over Arthur Balfour 's Conservative Party who lost more than half their seats, including his own seat in Manchester East , as a result of the large national swing to the Liberal Party (The 5.4% swing from the Conservatives to Liberals was at ...
Instead, some election-watchers waited on pins and needles for a prediction from Allan Lichtman, a 77-year-old distinguished professor of history at American University who lives in Bethesda ...
Many pollsters ended their fieldwork before the closing weekend of the 1980 campaign — a cost-saving move that has contributed to predictive failure in more than a few elections.
In 1948, Johnson again ran for the U.S. Senate and won the general election after being declared winner in a highly controversial Democratic Party primary election against the well-known former governor Coke Stevenson. [54] Johnson drew crowds to fairgrounds with his rented Sikorsky S-51 helicopter, dubbed "The Johnson City Windmill". [55]
The 1948 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 2, 1948. After the inconclusive Democratic Party primary in July, a hotly contested [ 2 ] runoff was held in August in which U.S. Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson was officially declared to have defeated former Texas governor Coke R. Stevenson for the party's nomination by eighty ...
May: Texas elects Senator John Tower; he is the first Republican from the former Confederacy ever to win popular election and begins the growth of the GOP in that state. [74] 1962. Buckley and the National Review launch denunciations of the John Birch Society; Goldwater agrees; the attack limits its influence to the conspiracy-minded. [75] 1963