Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1908

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On November 3, 1908, 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 to the 61st United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . At the same time, the presidential election of 1908 , which the Republican William Howard Taft won, took place.

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 46 states ( Oklahoma was now a new member). The number of MPs to be elected was 391. The distribution of seats was based on the 1900 census .

In the election, the Democrats gained 5 seats while the Republicans lost 4 seats, but retained their absolute majority. Given the small changes, one cannot speak of a trend in certain directions. The voters were more interested in maintaining the status quo. The small changes are due to regional peculiarities and have no national political background.

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 (391)

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 61st 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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