Election to the United States House of Representatives 1814

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1814, the House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States from April 26, 1814 . The election was part of the general election for the 14th United States Congress that year, which also saw a third of the US Senators elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of the second four-year term of President James Madison ( 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 18 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 183. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1810 census . The election was overshadowed by the events of the British-American War that broke out in 1812 , which was also the dominant election theme. The federalists were resolutely against the war and, for reasons of trade policy, still found favor with it, especially in their home country of New England . In the meantime, the mood against the war there was so great that there was even thought about leaving the Union ( Hartford Convention). In other parts of the country, however, voters backed the federal government under President Madison and supported the war effort. The bottom line was that the Democratic-Republican Party gained a little. For the federalists, this election was the last in which they could have more than a third of the MPs. Their final decline began in the next elections, which then led to the dissolution of the party in the early 1820s.

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 : 183

Distribution of seats
  
A total of 183 seats
  • Federalist Party : 64
  • Democratic Republican Party : 119

The results of the last regular elections of 1812 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not taken into account in these figures, but are included in the article on the 14th 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 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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