Talk:78th United States Congress

Requested move
All of the others (1st United States Congress through 113th United States Congress) have long since been renamed with the consensus of the Wikipedia community. I suspect that the renamers found these articles hard to move and gave up.—Markles 10:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

This article involved in a current MOS:NUM discussion
The mix of ISO 8601 format dates (e.g. 1943-09-08 under Major events section in this article) and American-formatted dates in this article prompted this discussion: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Dl2000 (talk) 02:08, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Net gain?
I'm not sure where to put this, I'd correct it myself if I knew the facts (but I don't have a good reference book at hand).

It says "House Democrats increased their majority with a 20-seat net gain."

Then it says "Democratic (D): 222 (majority) Republican (R): 209"

However, in the 77th United States Congress it says:

"House of Representatives 267 Democrats 162 Republicans"

As you can see, this should bring a Democratic majority up to 287 if the first statement is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.149.119.250 (talk) 19:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Good question. The gain was realized in the 1944 elections, which gave the Democrats 20 more seats in the Next Congress.  That's the 79th Congress, which lists them as having 242 seats.  OK?—Markles 01:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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