The Emancipation Proclamation announced in September gained votes for the Republicans in the rural areas of New England and the upper Midwest, but it lost votes in the cities and the lower Midwest.

The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

The Republicans lost a few seats in the House and gained a few in the Senate, but retained control of both houses of the 105th United States Congress.

A 2007 study looked at the introduction of Fox News into local U. S. markets between 1996 and 2000, and found that in the 2000 presidential election " Republicans gained 0. 4 to 0. 7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News ".

The Union Party quickly gained the attention of the colonial governors, all Republicans, who were willing to work closely with them because of their control of the House of Delegates.

The Republicans gained control of the House, as well as the Senate, which until 1913 was elected by the state legislatures rather than by the popular vote.

Kennedy gained since there was an economic recession which hurt the incumbent GOP, and he had the advantage of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans.

In the congressional elections of 1966, the Republicans gained three seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, reinvigorating the Conservative coalition and making it impossible for Johnson to pass any additional Great Society legislation.

When the Republicans gained control of the House after the 1952 elections, Reece served as chairman of the Special Committee on Tax Exempt Foundations, losing this post after the Democrats regained control in 1955.

After the Republicans gained the majority in the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections of 1858, Colfax became chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads.

In the 2010 election the Republicans gained a majority for the first time since partisan identification returned to the legislature in 1974.

Historians have explained Kennedy's victory in terms of an economic recession, the numerical dominance of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, the votes that Kennedy gained among Catholics practically matched the votes Nixon gained among Protestants, Kennedy's better organization, and Kennedy's superior campaigning skills.

When the Radical Republicans gained power in 1867, they gave blacks the right to vote in the South and set up new elections, which the Republican coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers, and scalawags won ( except in Virginia ).

David Vandergriff, a conservative attorney from Fort Smith, said that the rightist faction gained full control of the Arkansas GOP in 1981: " The Reagan Republicans didn't run off the Rockefeller Republicans, but they left for whatever reasons ... A lot of the Rockefeller Republicans disappeared when he left office, and those that remained have continued to fall by the wayside.

Three Republicans gained seats in the Arkansas House of Representatives, having represented Madison, Newton, and Seardcy counties.

William Jenner of Indiana took over during the 83rd United States Congress Congress after the Republicans gained control of the Senate in the 1952 election.

Republicans gained a more youthful appearance and had reinvented itself informally as the new GOP Hawaii.

Originally elected as a Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party in 1994 when Republicans gained the majority in Congress midway through President Bill Clinton's first term.

The Republicans believed they gained by the change, as many of the Democratic voters were moved out of historically Republican-majority districts.

When the Republicans gained a majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by Party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general.

The decision shocked and angered many prominent Kentucky Republicans, Lewis said he was tired of splitting his time between Washington and Kentucky, and that serving in Congress had not been as encouraging since Democrats gained the majority in 2007.

The Republicans did maintain their majorities in Congress and in the major states, except New York.

* November 5 – Senate and House elections in the United States both give majorities to the Republicans.

Republicans made O ' Neill the target of their election campaigns in 1980 and 1982 ; nevertheless, Democrats managed to retain their majorities in both years.

The Republicans retained their majorities in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections.

The election of 1866 decisively changed the balance of power, giving the Republicans two-thirds majorities in both houses of Congress, and enough votes to overcome Johnson's vetoes.

Hoover won, and Republicans maintained comfortable majorities in the House and the Senate during 1928.

In the 1888 election, the Republicans were victorious with the election of President Harrison, and majorities in both the Senate and the House.

These voting blocs together formed a majority of voters and handed the Democratic Party seven victories out of nine presidential elections ( 1932 – 36-40-48, 1960, 1964 ), as well as control of both houses of Congress during all but 4 years between the years 1932-1980 ( Republicans won small majorities in 1946 and 1952 ).

For most of Vilsack's tenure as Governor, Republicans held effective majorities in the Iowa General Assembly.

Indeed, they participated to right-wing majorities then, a part of the Gaullists as Jacques Chaban-Delmas joined the center-left Republican Front under the label National Center of Social Republicans ( Centre national des républicains sociaux or CNRS ).

United States Senate elections, 2004 & United States House of Representatives elections, 2004: Republicans increased their majorities in both houses.

Republicans won majorities in both the House and the Senate, taking control of both chambers for the first time since 1954.

He was one of the engineers of the " Republican Revolution " of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress for the first time in four decades.

) Wilder then appointed Republican majorities to seven of the nine committees but left the five existing Democratic chairmen in place ; this resulted in Democratic majorities and chairs on two committees, including what is regarded as the most important one, the Finance Committee, which left many Republicans very upset.

In the November presidential election, Dwight D. Eisenhower won the presidential election, and Republicans swept to majorities in both houses of Congress.

During his tenure, Republicans held the Ohio governor's office for 16 years, won every statewide office, held majorities in the Ohio House and Senate, won unanimous control of the Ohio Supreme Court, and won more than 63 percent of all county elective offices in the state.

He was one of several conservative Democratic congressmen, mostly from the South, including Nathan Deal of Georgia, Mike Parker of Mississippi, Greg Laughlin of Texas and fellow Louisianan Billy Tauzin to switch to the Republican party around that time, as the Republicans had taken majorities in Congress in the 1994 elections.

By 2007, conservative Republicans had become the dominant force in state elections, with Republicans holding the offices of governor and lieutenant governor and significant majorities in both houses of the state General Assembly.

The 2011 Indiana General Assembly's regular legislative session began in January and the large Republicans majorities attempted to implement a wide-ranging conservative agenda largely backed by Daniels.

After winning large majorities in the 1866 elections, the Republicans put the South under military rule.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both chambers of the state legislature, giving the GOP complete control of state government for the first time since 1869.

The May 14 poll showed that same-sex marriage was opposed by majorities of African-Americans ( 57 %– 35 %), Republicans ( 68 %– 24 %), white Catholics ( 53 %– 39 %), and white Protestants ( 55 %– 38 %).