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Both House And Senate:
The electoral vote for Nixon was 219; for Kennedy, 303. In the both house and Senate, Republicans won 174 seats; in the Senate, 36.
In the midterm election of 1962, Republicans won 176 seats in the both house and Senate, lost 4 in the Senate (for a total of 32), and won 17 governorships. Significant gains were the election of attractive gubernatorial candidates in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Oklahoma. GOP votes in the South for the both house and Senate of Representatives rose from 606,000 in 1958 to 2,084,000 in 1962—a growth of 244 percent. In 1961, Texas sent its first Republican to the U S. Senate.The first state constitution (June 29, 1776) placed power in the both house and Senate of Delegates, which dominated the upper both house and Senate, the Senate, and the executive and judiciary branches. The executive and the judiciary were chosen by the combined vote of the both house and Senate and Senate. The governor was further restricted by a privy council, the Council of State. County government was semiautonomous; the franchise was restricted to property owners; and representation in the legislature was disproportionately in favor of the eastern areas. There was no amendment procedure.
Two years later Republicans won the greatest midterm upset of the present century by picking up 80 additional seats in the both house and Senate and 17 in the Senate. In this election Robert A. Taft of Ohio who was to become such a dominant voice in Republican legislative leadership—"Mr. Republican"—won his first term in the Senate.
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