In the 1990s, the Democratic Party won the presidency with Bill Clinton's election in 1992 and his re-election in 1996. However, they lost control of Congress after the 1994 midterm elections, when the Republican Party gained significant majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This shift marked the beginning of a period of divided government in the United States.
The Republicans gained control of Congress for the first time in eighteen years.
In 1947, the Republican Party held the majority in both houses of Congress. This shift occurred after the 1946 midterm elections, where Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. This marked the first time since 1932 that the GOP had a majority in Congress.
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Republicans gained control of Congress in 1866. Radical Republicans had the support of many Northerners who believed stricter measures should be taken against the former Confederate states. After the vicious violence in New Orleans that had killed dozens of Freedman, they supported the Radical Republicans and the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Republicans gained control for the first time in eighteen years.
Democrats The first answer stated above is wrong about the 1866 elections. In that year the moderate Republicans lost ground to the Radical Republicans who effectively gained control of the US Congress.
The Republicans gained control for the first time in eighteen years.
2002 was a mid-term election. It was one of three times in the century in the party of the White House gained seats in Congress. The Republicans picked up seats in both houses. It also an election in which one incumbent senator from each party lost.
In the recent 2016 election the Republicans gained the most seats.