LIST: Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by President’s Party

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 Seats in Congress Gained/Lost by the President’s Party in Mid-Term Elections
    F. Roosevelt – Trump 

YearLame Duck?
President
Partypresident’s job approval %
House Seats
Senate Seats
early Auglate Augearly Seplate Sepearly Octlate Oct
1934Franklin D. RooseveltDndndndndndnd+9+9
1938Franklin D. RooseveltDndndndndnd60-71-6
1942Franklin D. RooseveltD74nd74ndndnd-55-9
1946Harry S. TrumanDndnd33ndnd27-45-12
1950LD*Harry S. TrumanDnd4335354341
-29
-6
1954Dwight D. EisenhowerR6762nd6662nd-18-1
1958LDDwight D. EisenhowerR5856565457nd-48
-13
1962John F. KennedyDnd67nd63nd61-4+3
1966Lyndon B. JohnsonD5147ndnd4444-47
-4
1970Richard NixonR5555575158nd-12+2
1974±Gerald R. Ford (Nixon)R71nd665053nd-48
-5
1978Jimmy CarterD39434348nd49-15-3
1982Ronald ReaganR4142nd42nd42-26+1
1986LDRonald ReaganRnd64nd6364nd-5
-8
1990George BushR757354ndnd57-8-1
1994William J. ClintonD434040444348-52-8
1998LDWilliam J. ClintonD656263666565+5
0
2002George W. BushRnd6666666867+8+2
2006LDGeorge W. BushR374239443737-30
-6
2010Barack ObamaD444445454545-63-6
2014LDBarack ObamaD424241434241-13
-9
2018Donald J TrumpR40

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