Election to the United States House of Representatives 1900

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On November 6, 1900, the House of Representatives in the United States was elected. Elections in three countries took place between June and September. The election was part of the general election for the 57th United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . At the same time, the presidential election of 1900 took place, which was won by the Republican incumbent William McKinley .

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 45 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 357. The distribution of seats was based on the 1890 census .

In the elections, the Republicans saw slight gains of 13 seats while the Democrats lost 10 seats. This expanded the already existing Republican majority in the House of Representatives. The Republican growth was mainly due to the acquisition of mandates in states on the central Atlantic coast. By and large, however, the election of 1900 did not represent a trend reversal in any particular direction. The voters wanted to see the status quo maintained.

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: 357 (357)

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 57th 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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