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TheFellaVB (talk | contribs) Historically leaders are not shown on the info box of parties outside of the two major ones. See 1914 House elections as an example where the Progressive party had 10 seats but no leader shown as it was not significant enough to be shown in the infobox. |
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The '''1978 United States House of Representatives elections''' was an election for the [[United States House of Representatives]] on November 7, 1978, to elect members to serve in the [[96th United States Congress]]. They occurred in the middle of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s term, amidst an energy crisis and rapid inflation. The Democratic Party lost a net of 15 seats to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], and thus lost their [[Supermajority|two-thirds supermajority]], but still maintained a large 277-seat majority.
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