Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1892

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On November 8, 1892, the United States ' House of Representatives was elected. Elections were already made between June and September in three countries. The election was part of the general election to the 53rd United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. At the same time, the presidential election of 1892 took place, which the Democrat Grover Cleveland won.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 44 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 356. The distribution of seats was based on the 1890 census , which also led to the increase in the number of MPs.

In the election, Republicans recovered easily from the heavy losses they suffered two years earlier. With a gain of 38 seats, they now had 124 seats in the House of Representatives. But that meant they remained in the opposition. The Democrats lost 20 seats but were able to retain their absolute majority with 218 seats. The Populist Party, which mainly represented farmers and workers, was particularly strong in the south and west and gained 3 seats and now had 11 seats. Part of the reason the Republicans caught up so easily was that they managed to regain some of their traditional northern constituencies, which they lost in 1890. A slight economic recovery also played a role.

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: 356 (332)

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 53rd 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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