Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1924

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On November 4, 1924, the United States ' House of Representatives was elected. In the state of Maine , the elections took place on September 8th. The election was part of the general election to the 69th United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . The 1924 presidential election , won by Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge , also took place at the same time .

At the time of the election, the United States consisted of 48 states. The number of MPs to be elected was 435. The distribution of seats was based on the 1910 census . (Due to a lack of political majorities, the actual adjustment was not made based on the figures from the 1920 census . The next adjustment was not made until 1932 with the data from the 1930 census ).

In the election, the Republicans won 22 seats, increasing their absolute majority. On the other hand, the Democrats lost 24 seats and only got 183 seats. The main reason for this result was the flourishing economy, which voters gave credit to the politics of the Republican federal government. Even an internal split in the Republicans and the resulting founding of a new Progressive Party could not change that. It is astonishing that the numerous affairs and scandals during the term of office of the Republican President Warren G. Harding , who died on August 2, 1923 , did not affect the Republican election results, although leading members of the government at the time were involved. The voters viewed these events more as personal misconduct.

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 the right to vote. These restrictions lasted until the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1964.

Election result

Total: 435 (435)

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 69th 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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