Election to the United States House of Representatives 1802

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1802, the House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States from April 26, 1802 . The election was part of the general election to the 8th United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of President Thomas Jefferson's first four-year term in office ( Midterm Election ), they were also considered a vote on the previous policy of the President.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 16 states . The number of MPs to be elected was 142. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1800 census . As a result of the increase in the population, the number of representatives in the House of Representatives was increased accordingly. The 36 seat increase benefited almost exclusively the Democratic Republican Party of President Jefferson, which recorded a landslide victory and thus secured a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives. The federalists were only able to gain one mandate compared to their last election result. The result was a clear vote for the president and his policies.

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.

Election result

Total : 142

Distribution of seats
  
A total of 142 seats
  • Federalist Party : 39
  • Democratic Republican Party : 103

The results of the last regular elections of 1800 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not included in these figures, but are included in the article on the 8th Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives noted the corresponding names of the MPs. The same applies to elections in states that did not join the Union until 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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