1960 United States House of Representatives elections

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All 437 seats in theUnited States House of Representatives 219 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Sam Rayburn Charles A. Halleck Party Democratic Republican Leader since September 16, 1940 January 3, 1959 Leader's seat Texas 4th Indiana 2nd Last election 283 seats 153 seats Seats won 262 175 Seat change 21 22 Popular vote 35,125,032 28,750,866 Percentage 54.8% 44.8% Swing 1.2pp 1.2pp
Results:      Democratic hold     Democratic gain      Republican hold     Republican gain
Speaker before election Sam Rayburn Democratic ElectedSpeaker Sam Rayburn Democratic

The1960 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 1960, to elect members to serve in the87th United States Congress. They coincided with theelection ofPresidentJohn F. Kennedy. This was the first house election to feature all 50 currentU.S. states.

There were 437 seats, the most in U.S. history: 435 from the reapportionment in accordance with the1950 census, and one seat for each of the new states ofAlaska andHawaii.

Although Democrats retained control, it was the last time until1988 that a victorious presidential candidate lost seats in the House.

This is the last House election cycle in which no new female representatives were elected to the House. Since the death of1996 Republicanpresidential nomineeBob Dole in 2021, this is also the latest House election cycle where all first-elected members are deceased.

405 incumbent members sought reelection, but 5 were defeated in primaries and 25 defeated in the general election for a total of 375 incumbents winning.^[1]

Parties		Seats				Popular vote
		1958	1960	Change	Strength	Vote	%	Change
	Democratic	283	262	21	60.0%	35,125,032	54.8%	1.2%
	Republican	153	175	22	40.0%	28,750,866	44.8%	1.2%
	Liberal	0	0			126,332	0.2%
	Constitution	0	0			61,506	0.1%	0.1%
	Conservative	0	0			15,502	<0.1%
	Social Democratic	0	0			12,700	<0.1%
	Socialist Labor	0	0			8,166	<0.1%
	Prohibition	0	0			4,841	<0.1%
	Independent Anti-Tax	0	0			1,851	<0.1%
	Independent	0	0			1,394	<0.1%	0.1%
	Independent American	0	0			892	<0.1%
	Tax Cut	0	0			363	<0.1%
	Others	0	0			14,865	<0.1%	0.1%
Total		436	437	1	100.0%	64,124,310	100.0%

Source:Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

In these special elections, the winner was seated during 1960 or before January 3, 1961; ordered by election date, then state, then district.