Election to the United States House of Representatives 1880

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The election to the 1880 House of Representatives took place on November 2, 1880. The House of Representatives was elected in the United States . Elections took place between June 1st and October 12th in five states. The election was part of the general election to the 47th United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of the US Senators . The 1880 presidential election , won by Republican James A. Garfield , took place at the same time .

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 38 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 293. The distribution of seats was based on the 1870 census .

In the elections, the Republicans won 19 seats compared to the elections two years earlier. This gave them 151 seats and an absolute majority. On the other hand, the Democrats lost 13 seats and only got 128 seats. The United States Greenback Party , which advocated the permanent use of banknotes (paper money) and which had its voters mainly in agriculture, lost three seats. The main reason for the Republicans' election victory was the economic recovery since the last election. Voters saw this as a credit to the Republicans, who then made up the federal government under President Rutherford B. Hayes .

Only men were entitled to vote and eligible for election. Women were still banned from voting at the federal level until 1920. In the southern states in particular, the right to vote was restricted by laws that linked the right to vote to a certain tax revenue. As a result, poor whites, but above all many African-Americans, were excluded from voting.

Election result

Total: 293

Distribution of seats
   
A total of 293 seats
  • Dem . : 128
  • Rep .: 151
  • Otherwise: 14

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 47th 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 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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