The 2006 elections for the United States Senate and House of Representatives were held on November 7, 2006, in which 33 Senate seats and every seat in the House of Representatives was contested, as well as 32 state governorships and legislatures. The elections resulted in a resounding victory for the Nationalist Party, which regained control of the House of Representatives for the first time since losing in the 1998 midterms and took back control of the Senate after 20 years of Democratic control. The Nationalists also protected every incumbent governor of theirs and took four new gubernatorial seats from Democratic hands.