United States elections, 1998

**Partisan control of Congress and the presidency**
	Previous party	Incoming party
President	Democratic	Democratic
House	Republican	Republican
Senate	Republican	Republican

The 1998 elections in the United States were held on November 3, 1998. The elections showed little swings, as the composition in both houses of the United States Congress were not significantly altered.

In the United States Senate elections, neither party made gains, as Republicans won Senate seats from Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio. Democrats won seats in New York, North Carolina, and Indiana.

The parallel House of Representatives elections saw a significant disruption of the historic six-year itch trend, where the President's party loses seats in the second-term midterm elections, as the Democrats picked up 5 seats in the House. This also marked the second time in U.S. history since the Civil War that the President's party gained seats in a midterm election, the first being 1934 and the third being 2002. This is also the only time this has happened during the president's second term rather than their first.

Furthermore, neither party made net gains in governorships. Texas Governor George W. Bush's landslide re-election solidified his status as a front-runner for the 2000 Republican nomination.^[1]

References

↑ Busch, Andrew (1999). Horses in Midstream. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 145–148. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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