Following the 2018 election, there was a record number of women (127) in the 116th Congress, up from 110 in the previous 115th Congress. Nixon resigned from the White House in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal. The 2018 elections saw a number of significant successes for women candidates. The election was held just months after President Richard M. After the midterm elections rendered a 5-2 Republican-appointed majority of justices on the state Supreme Court, justices decided on Friday to rehear two election law-related challenges that were. In 1974, Republicans lost 53 seats-48 in the House and five in the Senate-while Republican President Gerald Ford was in office.In 1994, Democrats lost 60 seats-52 in the House and eight in the Senate-while Democrat Bill Clinton was in office and the opposing party, led by conservative firebrand Newt Gingrich, orchestrated a successful "Republican Revolution" in Congress with its "Contract With America.".Bush called the 2006 midterms a "thumpin.'" Moderate Democratic candidates were the big winners of swing congressional districts in the 2018 midterm elections, flipping most of the 28 key House districts from Republicans’ control and. Voters had grown weary of the war in Iraq and took it out on Bush, one of only three presidents whose party has picked up seats in midterms since World War II. In 2006, Republicans lost 36 seats-30 in the House and six in the Senate-while Republican President George W.Obama, who signed an overhaul of the nation's health care system that was deeply unpopular among Tea Party Republicans, later described the midterm results as a "shellacking." In 2010, Democrats lost 69 seats-63 in the House and six in the Senate-while Democratic President Barack Obama was in the White House.With Trump as president, Republicans held both houses of Congress and the White House, and Democrats hoped to elect enough members of Congress to thwart their agenda. Republican Kristi Noem claimed South Dakota, while Democrat Janet Mills won the majority in Maine. In 2018, Republicans lost 39 seats-41 in the House while gaining two in the Senate-two years after the election of Republican President Donald Trump. A record number of women are running for federal, state, and local political office, many for the first time, in the 2018 midterm elections. South Dakota, Maine, and Guam elected their first female governors.
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