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The 1970 United States elections were held on November 3, and elected the members of the 92nd United States Congress.The election took place during the Vietnam War, in the middle of Republican President Richard Nixon's first term.
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter.
The 1970 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970, to elect members to serve in the 92nd United States Congress.
Other candidates were Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) and Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition), a former Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, and 1966. He was the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1948 and 1956.
Since the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1788, there have been 52 unsuccessful major party candidates for President of the United States. [ a ] Additionally, since 1796, eight third party or independent candidates have won at least ten percent of the popular or electoral vote , but all failed to win the presidency.
Kamala Harris is only the second woman to be a major party's presidential candidate, following Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president without the right to vote, and ...
The following list indicates lifetime electoral votes received across multiple elections in which the candidate was the nominee of a political party or was otherwise on a presidential ballot. Note that the counting for Electoral College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did ...
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