Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1906

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On November 6, 1906, the United States ' House of Representatives was elected. Elections in three countries took place between June and September. The election was part of the general election for the 60th United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . Since the elections took place around the middle of the second term of the Republican President Theodore Roosevelt ( Midterm Election ), they were also considered a vote on the previous policy of the President.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 45 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 391. The distribution of seats was based on the 1900 census .

In the elections, the Democrats gained 32 seats while the Republicans lost 28 seats. Nevertheless, the Republicans were able to maintain their absolute majority. The main reason for the democratic gains was the dissatisfaction with the working conditions in industry in the states of the Midwest and the mid-Atlantic coast. In these regions, industrial workers voted for Democrats in protest against the government.

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: 391 (386)

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 60th Congress in the section on the members of the House of Representatives under the appropriate 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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