1930 United States elections
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Election day | November 4 |
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Incumbent president | Herbert Hoover (Republican) |
Next Congress | 72nd |
Senate elections | |
Overall control | Republican hold |
Seats contested | 35 of 96 seats (32 Class 2 seats + 7 special elections)[1] |
Net seat change | Democratic +8[2] |
1930 Senate election results
Democratic gain Democratic hold | |
House elections | |
Overall control | Democratic gain[3] |
Seats contested | All 435 voting seats |
Popular vote margin | Republican +8.5% |
Net seat change | Democratic +52 |
Gubernatorial elections | |
Seats contested | 33 |
Net seat change | Democratic +7 |
1930 gubernatorial election results
Democratic gain Democratic hold |
The 1930 United States elections were held on November 4, 1930, in the middle of Republican President
The Republicans lost fifty-two seats to the
special elections (since some Republican members died) before the start of the new Congress. This allowed the Democrats to take control of the chamber.[4]
The Republicans also lost eight seats to the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, but were able to narrowly maintain control.[6]
The election was a victory for
re-election established him as the front-runner for the 1932 Democratic nomination.[7]
See also
- 1930 United States House of Representatives elections
- 1930 United States Senate elections
- 1930 United States gubernatorial elections
References
- ^ Four Class 2 seats held both a regularly-scheduled election and a special election in 1930. These seats are not double-counted for the total number of seats contested.
- ^ Democrats picked up six seats in the regularly-scheduled elections and an additional two seats in the special elections.
- ^ Democrats fell just short of winning a majority in the regularly-scheduled elections of 1930, but they won a majority in special elections that preceded the next Congress.
- ^ a b "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present". United States Senate. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 1930" (PDF). U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ^ Busch, Andrew (1999). Horses in Midstream. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 77–78.