Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1832

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The election to the 1832 House of Representatives took place from July 2, 1832. The House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States . The election was part of the general election for the 23rd United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . At the same time, the presidential election of 1832 took place, which the incumbent Andrew Jackson won.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 24 states . The number of MPs to be elected was 240. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 census . The Democratic Party was able to increase its absolute majority in the elections . She gained 17 seats, including some of the new seats that resulted from the increase in MPs from 213 to 240. Despite this increase, the National Republicans lost three seats. The reason for the democratic election victory was on the one hand the popularity of President Jackson and his politics. At the time, there were three main issues: first, the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina , second, the implementation of the Indian Removal Act, and third, Jackson's plan to break up the Bundesbank . The Anti-Masonic Party , whose only political goal was the fight against Freemasonry , won eight seats in the election. The supporters of the politics of the state of South Carolina, which was supported by Vice President John C. Calhoun , among others , won five seats. Their group, called Nullifiers , now had a total of nine mandates. Eight of these MPs were from South Carolina, and the ninth was from an Alabama state constituency .

Women and slaves were neither eligible nor eligible to vote. Free African Americans were also excluded from voting in many states .

Election result

Total: 240

The results of the last election two years earlier are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not included in these figures, but are noted in the article on the 23rd Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the relevant names of the representatives. 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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