Election to the United States House of Representatives 1820

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In the election to the United States House of Representatives in 1820, the House of Representatives were elected on various election days in the United States from July 3, 1820 . The election was part of the general election for the 17th United States Congress that year, which also saw a third of US Senators elected. At the same time, the presidential election of 1820 , won by popular incumbent James Monroe of the Democratic Republican Party, took place.

At the time of the election, the United States was made up of 23 states ( Alabama and Maine were added as new states). The number of MPs to be elected was 187. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1810 census . In the elections, the President's Democratic Republican Party lost five seats to the federalists, but the cause was not a major shift in favor of the federalists, but domestic political problems in some rural eastern regions. The Democratic Republican Party made up almost 83 percent of the MPs. In addition, the Americans were very satisfied with the policies of President James Monroe ( Era of good feeling ), which was reflected in his clear re-election. The election of 1820 was the last such unambiguous election in favor of a party for many years. In the following years there was a change in the party landscape in the United States and the breakup of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had previously supported the state. There were then temporarily more than two parties or party factions and tighter election results.

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 : 187

Distribution of seats
  
A total of 187 seats
  • Federalist Party : 32
  • Democratic Republican Party : 155

The results of the last regular elections of 1818 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 16th 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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