The 2014 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama’s second term. Republicans won a net gain of nine Senate seats, the largest Senate gain for either party since the 1980 U.S. elections. The 2014 election saw the lowest turnout since 1942, with just 36. 4% of eligible voters voting. Major issues of the election included income inequality, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Republicans sought to repeal.
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The 2014 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama’s second term. Republicans won a net gain of nine Senate seats, the largest Senate gain for either party since the 1980 U.S. elections. The 2014 election also saw the lowest turnout since 1942, with just 36. 4% of eligible voters voting. Major issues of the election included income inequality, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Republicans sought to repeal. With a final total of 247 seats in the House and 54 seats in the Senate, the Republicans ultimately achieved their largest majority in the U. S. Congress since the 71st Congress in 1929. The Republican party won 247 seats and the Democratic Party, 188 seats. Nationwide, Republicans won the popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 5.7 percent. On March 11, there was a special election for Florida’s 13th congressional district, won by the Republican Party. Elections were held for the governorships of 36 states and three U. s. territories. This cycle marked the first time an incumbent Governor was not running for re-election in the modern era.
The final result was 31 Republican governors, 18 Democratic governors and one Independent governor. This increased the total number of Republican-controlled state houses from 57 to 67. The day after the election, Republicans achieved a 17–17 tie in the state legislature, who achieved a total of 60 seats up for election. This was a decline from 2010 and 2008, but was still the most common issue cited by voters as most important to them. Smaller numbers of voters named health care, foreign policy, or illegal immigration as their top issues, or same-sex marriage, Ebola, or the legalization of marijuana as their most important issue. The Keystone Pipeline ultimately received little attention in the 2014 election, with environmentalists instead focused on fighting global warming and supporting the EPA’s proposed regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. The GOP won 24 of the 36 state governorships for a net gains of two seats, as they picked up open Democratic-held seats in Arkansas, Maryland and Massachusetts.
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