1934 United States elections

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Elections were held on November 6, 1934. The election took place in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, during the Great Depression. In a historic midterm election, the Democrats built on the majorities in both houses of Congress they had won in the previous two elections. In the House of Representatives, Roosevelt's party gained nine seats, mostly from the Republican Party. The Democrats also gained nine seats in the U.S. Senate, thereby winning a supermajority. A Progressive also unseated a Republican in the Senate. This marked the first of three times that an incumbent president's party did not experience a net loss of seats in both houses of Congress in a midterm election, followed by 1998 and 2002. It is also the only one of the three where an incumbent president's party simultaneously did not experience a net loss of governorships. The feat of a Democratic president seeing net gains in the governorships in a midterm would not be observed again until...

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