Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1982

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
A total of 435 seats

The 1982 election to the United States House of Representatives took place on November 2, 1982. The election was part of the general election to the 98th United States Congress that year, in which one-third of the US Senators were also elected. Since the elections, about the middle of the first term of Republican President Ronald Reagan took place ( Midterm Election ) , they were regarded as a vote on the current policy of the President.

The number of MPs to be elected was 435. The distribution of seats was based on the 1980 census .

In the elections, the Democrats won, who took 26 seats from the Republicans and increased their absolute majority to 269 congressmen. The reason for this development was an economic crisis and an associated temporary unpopularity of President Reagan and his Republican federal government.

Election result

Total: 435 (435)

The results of the last election two years earlier are in brackets. Changes in the course of the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not included in these figures, but are noted in the article on the 98th Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the appropriate names of the representatives. As a result, the sources sometimes contain different information, as changes during the legislative period were sometimes incorporated into the figures and sometimes not. The election result shown is based on the source below (Party Divisions).

See also

Web link