1906 United States elections explained

Year:1906
Type:Midterm elections
Election Day:November 6
Incumbent President:Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
Next Congress:60th
Senate Seats Contested:30 of 90 seats[1]
Senate Control:Republican hold
Senate Net Change:Republican +3[2]
House Seats Contested:All 391 voting seats
House Control:Republican hold
House Net Change:Democratic +32
Governor Seats Contested:28
Governor Net Change:Democratic +2
Governor Map Caption:1906 gubernatorial election results

Senate Map Caption:Results of the elections:


The 1906 United States elections elected the members of the 60th United States Congress. It occurred in the middle of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt's second (only full) term, during the Fourth Party System. Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress.

Democrats won several seats in the House, but Republicans retained a solid majority in the chamber.[3]

In the Senate, Republicans won moderate gains and maintained their commanding majority in the chamber.[4]

This marked the most recent time in which a sitting two-term Republican president retained both chambers of Congress after his second midterm.

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Notes and References

  1. Not counting special elections
  2. Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account.
  3. Web site: Party Divisions of the House of Representatives. United States House of Representatives. 25 June 2014.
  4. Web site: Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present. United States Senate. 25 June 2014.