Election to the United States House of Representatives 1804

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1804, the House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States from April 24, 1804 . The election was part of the general election for the 9th United States Congress that year, which also saw a third of the US Senators elected. At the same time, the presidential election of 1804 took place, which the incumbent Thomas Jefferson clearly won.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 17 states ( Ohio was added as a new state). The number of MPs to be elected was 142. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1800 census . In the elections, President Jefferson's Democratic Republican Party was able to further expand its two-thirds majority, which it had won in 1802. The reason for this was the president's great popularity. The purchase of Louisiana Territory (" Louisiana Purchase ") made by Jefferson in 1803 , which significantly enlarged the territory of the United States in the west, was also very popular with the people.

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 : 28
  • Democratic Republican Party : 114

The results of the last regular elections of 1802 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 9th 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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