1968 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1968 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives on November 5, 1968, to elect members to serve in the 91st United States Congress. They coincided with Richard M. Nixon's election as president. Nixon's narrow victory yielded only limited gains for his Republican Party, which picked up a net of five seats from the Democratic Party. The Democrats retained a majority in the House.

The election coincided with the presidential campaign of George Wallace of the American Independent Party, who unsuccessfully attempted to deny a majority in the Electoral College to any of his opponents. Had Wallace succeeded he would have given the House the choice of president from among the three, for the first time since 1825. As a result of this election, Democrats formed a majority of 26 state House delegations, with Republicans forming a majority in 19 and the other five delegations being evenly split (each state's House delegation receives one vote in such an election). However, the Democrats' nominal majority of state delegations includes those of the Southern United States who were more inclined to support Wallace as opposed to Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey. Wallace believed the Southern representatives would be able to use the clout his campaign was trying to give them to force an end to federal desegregation efforts in the South.

Overall results

409 incumbent members sought reelection, but 4 were defeated in primaries and 9 defeated in the general election for a total of 396 incumbents winning.

Democratic	Republican

Summary of the November 5, 1968 election results

Parties	Seats	Popular Vote	1966	1968	Change	Strength	Vote	%	Change	Total	435	435	——	100.0%	66,109,209	100.0%	——
	Democratic Party	248	243	5	55.9%	33,214,994	50.2%	0.7%
	Republican Party	187	192	5	44.1%	32,059,047	48.5%	0.3%
	Conservative Party					256,498	0.4%
	American Independent Party					171,422	0.3%	0.3%
	Liberal Party					85,462	0.1%
	National Democratic Party					83,818	0.1%	0.1%
	Independent					75,515	0.1%	0.1%
	Constitution Party					58,209	0.1%	0.1%
	Peace and Freedom Party					57,468	0.1%	0.1%
	Voice of Independence Party					9,399
	No Additional Taxes Party					8,493
	Socialist Labor Party					7,126
	New Party					4,534
	Socialist Workers Party					3,127
	De-escalators Party					2,798
	Common Sense Party					2,749
	American Anti-Communist Party					1,721
	Independent's Choice Party					1,314
	Abolish Port Authority Party					1,072
	New Politics Party					795
	Primary Party					572
	Prohibition Party					351
	Others					2,725		0.1%
Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

House seats by party holding plurality in state

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