Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1794

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1794, the House of Representatives were elected on various election days in the United States from August 24, 1794 . The election was part of the general election for the 4th United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. Since the election date was roughly in the middle of President George Washington's second four-year term ( midterm election ), some of the elections were also considered to be a vote on the president's policy.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 15 states . The number of MPs to be elected was 106. For the first time, two parties competed against each other. In the three previous elections there were only two groups, the Pro-Administration Party and the Anti-Administration Party , which were either for ('Pro') or against ('Anti') the policies of President Washington. From the Pro-Administration Party then emerged the Federalist Party , whose leader was Alexander Hamilton . The Democratic Republican Party developed from the Anti-Administration Party under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson .

Women and slaves were neither eligible nor eligible to vote. Free African Americans were also excluded from voting in many states . The right to vote for free men was also tied to a certain property or tax revenue.

The Democratic Republican Party achieved a clear majority with 59 seats. In the Senate, however, the majority ratios were reversed.

Election result

Total : 106

Distribution of seats
  
A total of 106 seats
  • Federalist Party : 47
  • Democratic Republican Party : 59

In brackets are the results of the last regular elections of 1792, in which the results of the predecessor organizations of the two new parties are listed. 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 4th Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the corresponding names of the representatives. The same applies to elections in states that joined the Union after the beginning of the legislative period. As a result, the sources sometimes contain different information, as changes during the legislative period were sometimes incorporated into the figures and sometimes not.

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