Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1934

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On November 6, 1934, the House of Representatives was elected in the United States . In the state of Maine , the elections took place on September 10th. The election was part of the general election to the 74th 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 first term of office of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 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 1930 census .

In the election, the Democrats expanded the two-thirds majority they had won in 1932 by a further 9 seats and now had 322 seats. The Republicans lost 14 seats and only had 103 congressmen. Part of these losses resulted from the loss of votes to the Progressive Party , which ran only in Wisconsin and won 7 seats straight away. The Democratic election victory was primarily a vote for the New Deal policy of the federal government under President Franklin Roosevelt. Voters had significantly more confidence in these policies than in the Republican election manifesto. As before, the Republican Federal Government under then President Herbert Hoover was held responsible for the Great Depression that began in 1929. The Democratic-driven adoption of the 21st amendment to the Constitution , according to which the 18th supplementary article from 1919 was repealed, was well received by the electorate, also because this article (also known as the Prohibition Act) had led to a massive rise in gang crime nationwide.

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 74th 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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