1954 United States House of Representatives elections explained

Election Name:	1954 United States House of Representatives elections
Country:	United States
Flag Year:	1912
Type:	legislative
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1952 United States House of Representatives elections
Previous Year:	1952
Next Election:	1956 United States House of Representatives elections
Next Year:	1956
Seats For Election:	All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives
Majority Seats:	218
Election Date:	November 2, 1954
Image1:	Sam Rayburn.jpg
Leader1:	Sam Rayburn
Leader Since1:	September 16, 1940
Party1:	Democratic Party (United States)
Last Election1:	213 seats
Seats1:	232
Seat Change1:	19
Popular Vote1:	22,366,386
Percentage1:	52.5%
Swing1:	2.7%
Leader2:	Joseph Martin
Leader Since2:	January 3, 1939
Party2:	Republican Party (United States)
Last Election2:	221 seats
Seats2:	203
Seat Change2:	18
Popular Vote2:	20,016,809
Percentage2:	47.0%
Swing2:	2.3%
Map Size:	320px
Speaker
Before Election:	Joseph Martin
Before Party:	Republican Party (United States)
After Election:	Sam Rayburn
After Party:	Democratic Party (United States)

The 1954 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 84th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 2, 1954, in the middle of Dwight Eisenhower's first presidential term, while Maine held theirs on September 13. Eisenhower's Republican Party lost eighteen seats in the House, giving the Democratic Party a majority that it would retain in every House election until 1994. This was nonetheless the first occasion when a Republican won a seat from Florida since 1882,^[1] and the first when the GOP won a seat from Texas since 1930.^[2]

Perhaps the major reason for the Republican defeat was the backlash against the Army–McCarthy Hearings, in which prominent Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy accused countless political and intellectual figures of having communist ties, usually with no evidence. Another issue was the Dixon–Yates contract to supply power to the Atomic Energy Commission.

Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the House, exchanging places with new Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts; they went back to what they had been before the 1952 elections.

Overall results

↓
232	203
Democratic	Republican

Party		Total seats	Change	Seat percentage	Vote percentage	Popular vote
	Democratic	align=right	232	align=right	19	align=right	53.3%	align=right	52.5%	align=right	22,366,386
	Republican	align=right	203	align=right	18	align=right	46.6%	align=right	47.0%	align=right	20,016,809
	Liberal	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	0.2%	align=right	79,946
	Independent	align=right	0	align=right	1	align=right	0.0%	align=right	0.2%	align=right	74,486
	American Labor	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	14,560
	Prohibition	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	8,591
	Progressive	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	6,614
	Socialist	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	5,828
	Socialist Labor	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	1,652
	Social Democratic	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	150
	Socialist Workers	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	114
	Militant Workers	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	99
	Others	align=right	0	align=right		align=right	0.0%	align=right	<0.1%	align=right	7,692
Totals		align=right	435	align=right	0	align=right	100.0%	align=right	100.0%	align=right	42,582,927
Source: Election Statistics – Office of the Clerk

Alabama

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Frank W. Boykin	Democratic	1935	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Frank W. Boykin (Democratic) Uncontested
George M. Grant	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	George M. Grant (Democratic) Uncontested
George W. Andrews	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	George W. Andrews (Democratic) Uncontested
Kenneth A. Roberts	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Kenneth A. Roberts (Democratic) Uncontested
Albert Rains	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Albert Rains (Democratic) Uncontested
Armistead I. Selden Jr.	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Armistead I. Selden Jr. (Democratic) Uncontested
Carl Elliott	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert E. Jones Jr.	Democratic	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Laurie C. Battle	Democratic	1946		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Democratic hold.	nowrap	George Huddleston Jr. (Democratic) Uncontested

Arizona

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	John Jacob Rhodes		Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	Harold Patten		Democratic	1948		Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	nowrap

Arkansas

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Ezekiel C. Gathings	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Ezekiel C. Gathings (Democratic) Uncontested
Wilbur Mills	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Wilbur Mills (Democratic) Uncontested
James William Trimble	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	James William Trimble (Democratic) Uncontested
Oren Harris	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Oren Harris (Democratic) Uncontested
Brooks Hays	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Brooks Hays (Democratic) Uncontested
William F. Norrell	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	William F. Norrell (Democratic) Uncontested

California

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in California.

See also: List of United States representatives from California. Of the thirty races, two incumbents retired and were replaced by new members from their party; one Republican lost re-election to a Democrat and one Democrat lost re-election to a Republican; and twenty six incumbents were re-elected.

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Hubert B. Scudder	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clair Engle	Democratic	1943	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John E. Moss	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William S. Mailliard	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John F. Shelley	Democratic	1949	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert Condon	Democratic	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Republican gain.	nowrap
John J. Allen Jr.	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George P. Miller	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
J. Arthur Younger	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles Gubser	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
J. Leroy Johnson	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Allan O. Hunter	Republican	1950		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Ernest K. Bramblett	Republican	1946		Incumbent retired. Republican hold.	nowrap
Harlan Hagen	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Gordon L. McDonough	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Donald L. Jackson	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Cecil R. King	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Craig Hosmer	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Chet Holifield	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Carl Hinshaw	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edgar W. Hiestand	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Joseph F. Holt	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clyde Doyle	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Glenard P. Lipscomb	Republican	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Patrick J. Hillings	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Sam Yorty	Democratic	1950		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Harry R. Sheppard	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James B. Utt	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Phillips	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Bob Wilson	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Colorado

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in Colorado.

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Byron G. Rogers	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William S. Hill	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Chenoweth	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Wayne N. Aspinall	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Connecticut

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Thomas J. Dodd	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Horace Seely-Brown Jr.	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Albert W. Cretella	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Albert P. Morano	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James T. Patterson	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Antoni Sadlak	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Delaware

Florida

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Courtney W. Campbell	Democratic	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Republican gain.	nowrap
Charles E. Bennett	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Charles E. Bennett (Democratic) Uncontested
Bob Sikes	Democratic	1940 1944 1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Bob Sikes (Democratic) Uncontested
Bill Lantaff	Democratic	1950		Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	nowrap	Dante Fascell (Democratic) Uncontested
Syd Herlong	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Syd Herlong (Democratic) Uncontested
Dwight L. Rogers	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Dwight L. Rogers (Democratic) Uncontested
James A. Haley	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Donald Ray Matthews	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Donald Ray Matthews (Democratic) Uncontested

Georgia

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Prince Hulon Preston Jr.	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (Democratic) 83.7% Others 16.3%
J. L. Pilcher	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	J. L. Pilcher (Democratic) Uncontested
Tic Forrester	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Tic Forrester (Democratic) Uncontested
Albert Sidney Camp	Democratic	1939		Incumbent died July 24, 1954. Democratic hold. Winner also elected to finish the current term; see above.	nowrap	John Flynt (Democratic) Uncontested
James C. Davis	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Carl Vinson	Democratic	1914	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Carl Vinson (Democratic) Uncontested
Henderson Lanham	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Henderson Lanham (Democratic) Uncontested
William M. Wheeler	Democratic	1946		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic hold.	nowrap	Iris Faircloth Blitch (Democratic) Uncontested
Phillip M. Landrum	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Phillip M. Landrum (Democratic) Uncontested
Paul Brown	Democratic	1933	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Paul Brown (Democratic) Uncontested

Idaho

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho.

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Gracie Pfost		Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	Hamer H. Budge		Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Illinois

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
William L. Dawson	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Barratt O'Hara	Democratic	1948 1950 1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Fred E. Busbey	Republican	1950		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
William E. McVey	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John C. Kluczynski	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Thomas J. O'Brien	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James Bowler	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Thomas S. Gordon	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Sidney R. Yates	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Richard W. Hoffman	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Timothy P. Sheehan	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edgar A. Jonas	Republican	1948		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Marguerite S. Church	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Chauncey W. Reed	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Noah M. Mason	Republican	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Leo E. Allen	Republican	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Leslie C. Arends	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harold H. Velde	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert B. Chiperfield	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Sid Simpson	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Peter F. Mack Jr.	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William L. Springer	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles W. Vursell	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Melvin Price	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
C. W. Bishop	Republican	1940		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap

Indiana

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Ray Madden	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles A. Halleck	Republican	1935	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Shepard Crumpacker	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
E. Ross Adair	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John V. Beamer	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Cecil M. Harden	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William G. Bray	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
D. Bailey Merrill	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Earl Wilson	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ralph Harvey	Republican	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles B. Brownson	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Iowa

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Thomas E. Martin	Republican	1938		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. senator. Republican hold.	nowrap
Henry O. Talle	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
H. R. Gross	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Karl M. LeCompte	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul Cunningham	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James I. Dolliver	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ben F. Jensen	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles B. Hoeven	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Kansas

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Howard Shultz Miller	Democratic	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Republican gain.	nowrap
Errett P. Scrivner	Republican	1943	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Myron V. George	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edward Herbert Rees	Republican	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clifford R. Hope	Republican	1926	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Wint Smith	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Kentucky

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Noble Jones Gregory	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William Natcher	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John M. Robsion Jr.	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frank Chelf	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Brent Spence	Democratic	1930	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John C. Watts	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Carl D. Perkins	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James S. Golden	Republican	1948		Incumbent retired. Republican hold.	nowrap

Louisiana

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
F. Edward Hébert	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Hale Boggs	Democratic	1940 1942 1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Hale Boggs (Democratic) Uncontested
Edwin E. Willis	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Edwin E. Willis (Democratic) Uncontested
Overton Brooks	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Overton Brooks (Democratic) Uncontested
Otto Passman	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Otto Passman (Democratic) Uncontested
James H. Morrison	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	James H. Morrison (Democratic) Uncontested
T. Ashton Thompson	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	T. Ashton Thompson (Democratic) Uncontested
George S. Long	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	George S. Long (Democratic) Uncontested

Maine

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Robert Hale	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles P. Nelson	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clifford McIntire	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Maryland

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Edward Tylor Miller	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James Devereux	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edward Garmatz	Democratic	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George Hyde Fallon	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frank Small Jr.	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
DeWitt Hyde	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Samuel Friedel	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Massachusetts

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
John W. Heselton	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edward Boland	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Philip J. Philbin	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harold Donohue	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edith Nourse Rogers	Republican	1925	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William H. Bates	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Thomas J. Lane	Democratic	1941	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Angier Goodwin	Republican	1942		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Donald W. Nicholson	Republican	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Laurence Curtis	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Tip O'Neill	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John W. McCormack	Democratic	1928	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Richard B. Wigglesworth	Republican	1928	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Joseph W. Martin Jr.	Republican	1924	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Michigan

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in Michigan.

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Thaddeus M. Machrowicz	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George Meader	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul W. Shafer	Republican	1936		Incumbent died August 17, 1954. Republican hold. Winner also elected to finish the current term; see above.	nowrap
Clare Hoffman	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Gerald Ford	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Kit Clardy	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Jesse P. Wolcott	Republican	1930	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Alvin Morell Bentley	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ruth Thompson	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Elford Albin Cederberg	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Victor A. Knox	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John B. Bennett	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George D. O'Brien	Democratic	1948		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Louis C. Rabaut	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Dingell Sr.	Democratic	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Lesinski Jr.	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles G. Oakman	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
George A. Dondero	Republican	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Minnesota

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
August H. Andresen	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Joseph P. O'Hara	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Roy Wier	Democratic (DFL)	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Eugene McCarthy	Democratic (DFL)	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Walter Judd	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Fred Marshall	Democratic (DFL)	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
H. Carl Andersen	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Blatnik	Democratic (DFL)	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harold Hagen	Republican	1944		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic (DFL) gain.	nowrap

Mississippi

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Thomas Abernethy	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Thomas Abernethy (Democratic) Uncontested
Jamie Whitten	Democratic	1941	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Jamie Whitten (Democratic) Uncontested
Frank E. Smith	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Frank E. Smith (Democratic) Uncontested
John Bell Williams	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	John Bell Williams (Democratic) Uncontested
W. Arthur Winstead	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	W. Arthur Winstead (Democratic) Uncontested
William M. Colmer	Democratic	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	William M. Colmer (Democratic) Uncontested

Missouri

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Frank M. Karsten	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Thomas B. Curtis	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Leonor Sullivan	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Jeffrey P. Hillelson	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Richard Bolling	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William C. Cole	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Dewey Short	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
A. S. J. Carnahan	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clarence Cannon	Democratic	1922	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul C. Jones	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Morgan M. Moulder	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Montana

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Lee Metcalf		Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	Wesley A. D'Ewart		Republican	1945		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Republican hold.	nowrap

Nebraska

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Carl Curtis	Republican	1938		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. senator. Republican hold.	nowrap
Roman Hruska	Republican	1952		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. senator. Republican hold.	nowrap
Robert Dinsmore Harrison	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Arthur L. Miller	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Nevada

New Hampshire

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Chester Earl Merrow		Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	Norris Cotton		Republican	1946		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Republican hold.	nowrap

New Jersey

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Charles A. Wolverton	Republican	1926	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
T. Millet Hand	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James C. Auchincloss	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles R. Howell	Democratic	1948		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harrison A. Williams	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William B. Widnall	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Gordon Canfield	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frank C. Osmers Jr.	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Peter W. Rodino	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Hugh J. Addonizio	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert Kean	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Alfred Sieminski	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edward J. Hart	Democratic	1934		Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	nowrap

New Mexico

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives election in New Mexico.

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	John J. Dempsey		Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.
	Antonio M. Fernández		Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.

New York

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Stuyvesant Wainwright	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Steven Derounian	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frank J. Becker	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Henry J. Latham	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Albert H. Bosch	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Lester Holtzman	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James J. Delaney	Democratic	1944 1946 1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Louis B. Heller	Democratic	1949		Incumbent resigned July 21, 1954 to become a NYC Special Sessions Court judge. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Eugene James Keogh	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edna F. Kelly	Democratic	1949	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Emanuel Celler	Democratic	1922	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Francis E. Dorn	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Abraham J. Multer	Democratic	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John J. Rooney	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John H. Ray	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frederic René Coudert Jr.	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James G. Donovan	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Arthur G. Klein	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.	Democratic	1949		Incumbent retired to run for Attorney General of New York. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Jacob Javits	Republican	1946		Incumbent retired to run for Attorney General of New York. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Sidney A. Fine	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Isidore Dollinger	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles A. Buckley	Democratic	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul A. Fino	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ralph A. Gamble	Republican	1937	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ralph W. Gwinn	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Katharine St. George	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
J. Ernest Wharton	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Leo W. O'Brien	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Dean P. Taylor	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Bernard W. Kearney	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clarence E. Kilburn	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William R. Williams	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
R. Walter Riehlman	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Taber	Republican	1922	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
W. Sterling Cole	Republican	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Kenneth Keating	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harold C. Ostertag	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William E. Miller	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edmund P. Radwan	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John R. Pillion	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Daniel A. Reed	Republican	1918	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

North Carolina

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Herbert Covington Bonner	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Lawrence H. Fountain	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Graham Arthur Barden	Democratic	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harold D. Cooley	Democratic	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
R. Thurmond Chatham	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Carl T. Durham	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frank Ertel Carlyle	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles B. Deane	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Hugh Quincy Alexander	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles R. Jonas	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Woodrow W. Jones	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George A. Shuford	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

North Dakota

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Usher L. Burdick		Republican-NPL	1948	Incumbent re-elected.
	Otto Krueger		Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.

Ohio

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Gordon H. Scherer	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William E. Hess	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul F. Schenck	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William Moore McCulloch	Republican	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Cliff Clevenger	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James G. Polk	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clarence J. Brown	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Jackson Edward Betts	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Frazier Reams	Independent	1950		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Thomas A. Jenkins	Republican	1924	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Oliver P. Bolton	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John M. Vorys	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Alvin F. Weichel	Republican	1942		Incumbent retired. Republican hold.	nowrap
William H. Ayres	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert T. Secrest	Democratic	1948		Incumbent resigned September 26, 1954 to join the FTC. Republican gain.	nowrap
Frank T. Bow	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
J. Harry McGregor	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Wayne Hays	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Michael J. Kirwan	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Michael A. Feighan	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert Crosser	Democratic	1922		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Frances P. Bolton	Republican	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George H. Bender	Republican	1950		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. senator. Republican hold.	nowrap

Oklahoma

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Page Belcher	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Ed Edmondson	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Carl Albert	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Tom Steed	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John Jarman	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Victor Wickersham	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Oregon

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
A. Walter Norblad	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Sam Coon	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Homer D. Angell	Republican	1938		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Harris Ellsworth	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Pennsylvania

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
William A. Barrett	Democratic	1944 1946 1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William T. Granahan	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James A. Byrne	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Earl Chudoff	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William J. Green Jr.	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Hugh Scott	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Benjamin F. James	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Karl C. King	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Paul B. Dague	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Joseph L. Carrigg	Republican	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Edward Bonin	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Ivor D. Fenton	Republican	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Samuel K. McConnell Jr.	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George M. Rhodes	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Francis E. Walter	Democratic	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Walter M. Mumma	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Alvin Bush	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Richard M. Simpson	Republican	1937	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
S. Walter Stauffer	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
James E. Van Zandt	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Augustine B. Kelley	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John P. Saylor	Republican	1949	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Leon H. Gavin	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Carroll D. Kearns	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Louis E. Graham	Republican	1938		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Thomas E. Morgan	Democratic	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James G. Fulton	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Herman P. Eberharter	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert J. Corbett	Republican	1938 1940 1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Vera Buchanan	Democratic	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Rhode Island

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Aime Forand		Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	John E. Fogarty		Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

South Carolina

See main article: 1954 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina.

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
L. Mendel Rivers	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John J. Riley	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William J. B. Dorn	Democratic	1946 1948 1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert T. Ashmore	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James P. Richards	Democratic	1932	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John L. McMillan	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

South Dakota

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Harold Lovre		Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
	Ellis Yarnal Berry		Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Tennessee

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
B. Carroll Reece	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Howard Baker Sr.	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James B. Frazier Jr.	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Joe L. Evins	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Joe L. Evins (Democratic) Uncontested
Percy Priest	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
James Patrick Sutton	Democratic	1948		Incumbent retired to run for U.S. Senator. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Tom J. Murray	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Tom J. Murray (Democratic) Uncontested
Jere Cooper	Democratic	1928	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Jere Cooper (Democratic) Uncontested
Clifford Davis	Democratic	1940	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Texas

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Wright Patman	Democratic	1928	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Wright Patman (Democratic) Uncontested
Jack Brooks	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Jack Brooks (Democratic) Uncontested
Brady P. Gentry	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Brady P. Gentry (Democratic) Uncontested
Sam Rayburn	Democratic	1912	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Sam Rayburn (Democratic) Uncontested
Joseph Franklin Wilson	Democratic	1946		Incumbent retired. Republican gain.	nowrap
Olin E. Teague	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Olin E. Teague (Democratic) Uncontested
John Dowdy	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	John Dowdy (Democratic) Uncontested
Albert Thomas	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clark W. Thompson	Democratic	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Clark W. Thompson (Democratic) Uncontested
Homer Thornberry	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Homer Thornberry (Democratic) Uncontested
William R. Poage	Democratic	1936	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	William R. Poage (Democratic) Uncontested
Wingate H. Lucas	Democratic	1946		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic hold.	nowrap	Jim Wright (Democratic) Uncontested
Frank N. Ikard	Democratic	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Frank N. Ikard (Democratic) Uncontested
John E. Lyle Jr.	Democratic	1944		Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	nowrap
Lloyd Bentsen	Democratic	1948		Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	nowrap	Joe M. Kilgore (Democratic) Uncontested
Kenneth M. Regan	Democratic	1947		Incumbent lost renomination. Democratic hold.	nowrap	J. T. Rutherford (Democratic) Uncontested
Omar Burleson	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Omar Burleson (Democratic) Uncontested
Walter E. Rogers	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
George H. Mahon	Democratic	1934	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	George H. Mahon (Democratic) Uncontested
Paul J. Kilday	Democratic	1938	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Paul J. Kilday (Democratic) Uncontested
O. C. Fisher	Democratic	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	O. C. Fisher (Democratic) Uncontested
Martin Dies Jr.	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Utah

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
	Douglas R. Stringfellow		Republican	1952		Incumbent withdrew. Republican hold.	nowrap
	William A. Dawson		Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Vermont

Virginia

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Edward J. Robeson Jr.	Democratic	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Edward J. Robeson Jr. (Democratic) Uncontested
Porter Hardy Jr.	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
J. Vaughan Gary	Democratic	1945	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Watkins Abbitt	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	Watkins Abbitt (Democratic) Uncontested
William M. Tuck	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap	William M. Tuck (Democratic) Uncontested
Richard H. Poff	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Burr Harrison	Democratic	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Howard W. Smith	Democratic	1930	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
William C. Wampler	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Joel Broyhill	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Washington

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Thomas Pelly	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Jack Westland	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Russell V. Mack	Republican	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Hal Holmes	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Walt Horan	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Thor C. Tollefson	Republican	1946	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Donald H. Magnuson	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

West Virginia

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Bob Mollohan	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Harley O. Staggers	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Cleveland M. Bailey	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Will E. Neal	Republican	1952		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
Elizabeth Kee	Democratic	1951	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Robert Byrd	Democratic	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Wisconsin

Incumbent	First elected	Result	Candidates
Lawrence H. Smith	Republican	1941	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Glenn Robert Davis	Republican	1947	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Gardner R. Withrow	Republican	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Clement Zablocki	Democratic	1948	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Charles J. Kersten	Republican	1950		Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	nowrap
William Van Pelt	Republican	1950	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Melvin Laird	Republican	1952	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
John W. Byrnes	Republican	1944	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Lester Johnson	Democratic	1953	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap
Alvin O'Konski	Republican	1942	Incumbent re-elected.	nowrap

Wyoming

Non-voting delegates

Alaska Territory

References

Bean Louis, Influences in the 1954 Mid-Term Elections. Washington: Public Affairs Institute, 1954

Notes and References

Book: Bullock . Charles S. . The New Politics of the Old South: An Introduction to Southern Politics . Rozell . Mark J. . Rowman and Littlefield . 2007 . 978-0742553446 . 272.
Book: Davis, Michelle H. . Dixiegops: The Untold Story of the Dixiecrat-Republican Coalition . 2021 . 9798546782238 . 106. Independently Published .