Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1926

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On November 2, 1926, the House of Representatives was elected in the United States . In the state of Maine , the elections took place on September 13th. The election was part of the general election for the 70th United States Congress that year, in which one-third of the US Senators were also elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of the term of office of the Republican President Calvin Coolidge ( 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 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 Democrats gained 11 seats while the Republicans lost 9 seats. With 238 seats, the Republicans were able to maintain their absolute majority. There was no outstanding campaign topic. The changes were rather minimal across the country. Most voters in 1926 were in favor of maintaining the status quo. Topics that played a role in the election campaign but did not develop a decisive dominance included prohibition , state social welfare, the relationship between government and the free economy and the ongoing economic upswing.

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 taken into account in these figures, but are noted in the article on the 70th 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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