1910 United States House of Representatives elections information
House elections for the 62nd U.S. Congress
1910 United States House of Representatives elections
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November 8, 1910[a]
1912 →
All 391 seats in the United States House of Representatives[b] 196 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Champ Clark
James Mann
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
March 4, 1909
March 4, 1911
Leader's seat
Missouri 9th
Illinois 2nd
Last election
172 seats
218 seats
Seats won
227[1][2][c]
161[1][2][d]
Seat change
55
57
Popular vote
5,700,035
5,680,628
Percentage
46.69%
46.53%
Swing
1.31%
3.52%
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Socialist
Independent
Last election
0 seats
1 seat[e]
Seats won
1[1][2]
2[f][g][h]
Seat change
1
1
Popular vote
527,968
57,938
Percentage
4.32%
0.47%
Swing
1.94%
0.04%
Speaker before election
Joseph Cannon
Republican
Elected Speaker
Champ Clark
Democratic
The 1910 United States House of Representatives elections were held for the most part on November 8, 1910, while Maine and Vermont held theirs early in September, in the middle of President William Howard Taft's term. Elections were held for all 391 seats of the United States House of Representatives, representing 46 states, to the 62nd United States Congress.
The conservative Taft contended with major factional splits within his Republican Party. Instead of using his position as president to bridge compromise, Taft alienated the progressive wing of the party, which had championed his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. While conservatives controlled the largest number of elected positions for Republicans, progressive politics had been what brought many voters to the polls. The clash of these units of the Republican Party, combined with the message of unity from the Democratic Party, was enough to allow the Democrats to take control of the House, ending 16 years in opposition. This was the first time that the Socialist Party won a seat.
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^ abc"Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
^ abcMartis, pp. 164–165.
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