Election to the United States House of Representatives 1810

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1810, the House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States from April 24, 1810 . The election was part of the general election for the 12th United States Congress that year, which also saw a third of US Senators elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of President James Madison's first four-year term ( 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 17 states . The number of MPs to be elected was 143. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1800 census . In the elections, the Democratic Republican Party not only managed to increase its absolute majority, but also to win the two-thirds majority it had lost two years earlier. One of the reasons for the change was the repeal of the unpopular Embargo Act of 1807 . This led to a significant recovery in the economy. Many voters who had elected the federalists out of anger at the law in 1808 have now returned to the Democratic Republican Party.

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 : 143

Distribution of seats
  
A total of 143 seats
  • Federalist Party : 36
  • Democratic Republican Party : 107

The results of the last regular elections of 1808 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections are not included in these figures, but are included in the article on the 12th 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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