1914 United States elections

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1914 United States elections
1912          1913         1914         1915          1916
Midterm elections
Election dayNovember 3
Incumbent president Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
Next Congress 64th
Senate elections
Overall controlDemocratic hold
Seats contested33 of 96 seats
(32 Class 3 seats + 3 special elections) [1]
Net seat changeDemocratic +3


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1914 Senate election results

  Democratic gain  Democratic hold

  Republican hold
House elections
Overall controlDemocratic hold
Seats contestedAll 435 voting seats
Net seat changeRepublican +62
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1914 House of Representatives results
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested31
Net seat changeRepublican +2
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1914 gubernatorial election results

  Democratic gain  Democratic hold
  Republican gain  Republican hold

  Progressive hold

Elections were held for the 64th United States Congress, occurring in the middle of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's first term. Democrats retained control of both houses of Congress, the first time they were able to do so since the American Civil War (1861-1865).

Republicans won massive gains in the House, but Democrats maintained a solid majority in the chamber. [2]

In the first Senate election since the passage of the 17th Amendment, Democrats won small gains, maintaining control of the chamber. [3] This would also be the first of five times since the passage of the 17th Amendment that the president's party gained Senate seats and lost House seats, something that would be repeated by Democrats in 1962 and 2022, and by Republicans in 1970 and 2018.

See also

References

  1. Two Class 3 seats held both a regularly-scheduled election and a special election in 1914. These seats are not double-counted for the total number of seats contested.
  2. "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  3. "Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present". United States Senate. Retrieved June 25, 2014.