Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1928

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On November 6, 1928, the House of Representatives in the United States was elected. In the state of Maine , the elections took place on September 10th. The election was part of the general election for the 71st United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. The 1928 presidential election , won by Republican Herbert Hoover , 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 the 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 gained 32 seats while the Democrats lost 30 seats. The Republicans were able to expand their absolute majority with 270 seats. The main reason for the Republican election victory can be seen in the booming economy, which many Americans credited this party with as merit. On the other hand, this time the Democrats were divided on the question of prohibition . This gave a picture of disagreement from which Republicans benefited. Also Alfred E. Smith , who was installed as the first Catholic from the Democrats presidential candidate, deterred many anti-Catholic voters set and led her into the Republican camp.

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 71st 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 did not join the Union until 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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