Election to the United States House of Representatives in 1950

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On November 7, 1950, the United States House of Representatives was elected. In the state of Maine , the elections took place on September 11th. The election was part of the general election to the 82nd United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . Since the elections took place around the middle of the second term of office of Democratic President Harry S. Truman ( 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 1940 census .

The election resulted in a loss of 28 seats for the Democrats. With 235 congressmen now, they were able to maintain their absolute majority. The Republicans were able to achieve corresponding profits and now came to 199 seats in the House of Representatives. The main reason for the slight Republican gains was the Korean War that broke out in June 1950 . In this connection, some voters did not agree with the actions of the German Democratic Government. President Truman became unpopular again because of this and because of some domestic political decisions, which was also at the expense of the Democrats.

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 82nd 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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