Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1952

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A total of 435 seats
  • Dem .: 213
  • GOP : 221
  • Otherwise: 1

On November 4, 1952, 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 to the 83rd United States Congress that year, which also elected a third of US Senators . The 1952 presidential election , won by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower , 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 1950 census .

In terms of elections, the trend of the last election two years earlier continued, with Democrats falling in favor of voters while Republicans remained on the up. The Democrats lost another 22 seats and now had 213 seats. The Republicans gained 22 seats and now had 221 congressmen. They thus took over the absolute majority in this chamber, which had 218 seats. Interestingly, across the country, the Democrats got about 250,000 more votes than the Republicans. But since it was voted (and still is today) according to constituencies within the states, the picture described above resulted. The reasons for the Republican victory were the increasing unpopularity of the outgoing Democratic President Harry S. Truman and a dissatisfaction with the federal government he led, also and especially with regard to the Korean War .

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 83rd 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 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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