Stocks have always rallied in the year after midterm elections

Better than average returns too

From LPL Financial (via Yahoo Finance):

“Markets historically have done well in the year after midterms [Figure 2]. In fact, they have been higher 18 out of 18 times in the following year dating back to 1950, with nearly identical historical returns under Democratic and Republican presidents. This is no guarantee that it will happen this time, of course…