Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1836

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The election to the 1836 House of Representatives of the United States took place from July 4, 1836. The House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States . The election was part of the general election for the 25th United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . At the same time, the presidential election of 1836 took place, which the Democrat Martin Van Buren won.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 26 states ( Arkansas and Michigan had since been added). The number of MPs to be elected was 242. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1830 census . In the elections, the Democratic Party lost 15 seats but was able to maintain its absolute majority. In contrast, the United States Whig Party was able to win 25 seats. The Anti-Masonic Party lost another nine seats. Also among the losers were the supporters of the nullification in South Carolina . You gave up two seats and now only have six members. Reasons for the election result were, among other things, that the still incumbent Democratic President Andrew Jackson had lost some of his popularity. It was mainly about a dispute with the Supreme Court and the question of a possible American intervention in favor of the Texans in the Texan War of Independence , which Jackson refused.

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

Election result

Total: 242

The results of the last election two years earlier are in brackets. Changes in the course of the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not included in these figures, but are noted in the article on the 25th 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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