Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1852

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The election to the United States House of Representatives in 1852 took place from August 2, 1852. The House of Representatives was elected on various election days in the United States . The election was part of the general election to the 33rd United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. At the same time, the presidential election of 1852 took place, which the Democrat Franklin Pierce won.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 31 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 234. The distribution of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the 1850 census . The Democrats won an additional 30 seats in the elections and continued the upward trend that began in the last election. With 157 seats now, she has a two-thirds majority in the House of Representatives. On the other hand, the United States Whig Party continued relegation with a loss of 14 seats. The Unionist Party based in the southern states, which two years earlier had won 10 seats, no longer existed. The Free Soil Party , which stood up against slavery , could claim 4 seats. An election campaign topic that became more and more present in the years up to and including 1860 was the question of slavery and the rights of the individual states in the run-up to the American Civil War .

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

Election result

Total: 234

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 33rd Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the corresponding names of the representatives. 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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