Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1930

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On November 4, 1930, 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 for the 72nd United States Congress that year, in which a third of the US Senators were elected. Since the elections took place around the middle of the Republican President Herbert Hoover's term of office ( 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 52 seats while the Republicans lost exactly the same number of seats. With 218 seats now, the Republicans were just able to maintain their previous absolute majority. This was exactly that number. However, in the course of the legislative period, by-elections changed the majority in favor of the Democrats. The reason for the Democratic election victory can be seen primarily in the global economic crisis that began in October 1929 , the consequences of which were already having a noticeable impact on the American economy. The number of unemployed increased and with it the dissatisfaction of the citizens grew. For this development, the electorate blamed the republican federal government, which was accused of inaction in combating the crisis.

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 72nd 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 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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