1950 United States elections
The election took place during the Korean War, during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's second (only full) term.The Democrats lost twenty-eight seats to the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.The Democrats also lost five seats in the U.S. Senate to the Republicans.Like his predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, Truman and the Democratic party managed to maintain control of both houses, defying the six-year itch phenomenon for the second time in a row.The election set the stage for the presidency of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower and the centre-right policies of the 1950s.