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The elections resulted in a severe setback for the Republican Party, which barely maintained its majorities in both houses of Congress. Republican Senate seats fell from 56 to 48, and the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives dropped from 267 to 214. In the Senate, when the 47 Democrats and the 1 Farmer-Laborite voted together, it was necessary for Vice President Charles Curtis to cast the tiebreaking vote. When President Hoover was elected in 1928 it had looked as though he would be working with a friendly Congress, but only two years later the Republican majority was beginning to evaporate.
Sources:
Kristi Andersen, The Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979);
Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics, third edition, revised (New York: Harper & Row, 1965);
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