1970 United States House of Representatives elections (The Kennedy Legacy)

The 1970 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970 that took place in the middle of Robert F. Kennedy's first terms as President. As typical with midterm elections, the incumbent party, the Democrats lost six seats to the opposing party, the Republicans. While Kennedy and Democrats touted their popular domestic agenda and legislative victories as well as the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, Republicans attacked the Kennedy administration's handling of the 1970 Racial Unrest Riots and the advances of the North Vietnamese.