1912 United States House of Representatives elections information
House elections for the 63rd U.S. Congress
1912 United States House of Representatives elections
← 1910
November 5, 1912[a]
1914 →
All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives 218 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 5th
Illinois 2nd
Last election
229 seats
162 seats
Seats won
291[1][2]
134[1][2]
Seat change
62
28
Popular vote
8,224,857
7,396,644
Percentage
43.12%
38.78%
Swing
3.42%
7.62%
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Progressive
Socialist
Last election
0 seats
1 seat
Seats won
10[1][2][b][c]
0[1][2]
Seat change
10
1
Popular vote
1,896,446[d]
1,507,806
Percentage
9.94%
7.90%
Swing
New
3.61%
Fifth party
Party
Independent
Last election
2 seats [e]
Seats won
0
Seat change
2
Popular vote
49,622
Percentage
0.26%
Swing
0.21%
Results: Democratic hold Democratic gain Republican hold Republican gain Progressive gain Independent gain
Speaker before election
Champ Clark
Democratic
Elected Speaker
Champ Clark
Democratic
The 1912 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 63rd United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 5, 1912, while Maine and Vermont held theirs in September. They coincided with the election of President Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson's victory was partly due to the division of the opposition Republican Party into conservative and progressive factions. While many progressives stayed within the party framework, they maintained lukewarm relationships with Republican leadership. Others formed a third party known as the Progressives and several switched allegiance to the Democrats. A message of unity was portrayed by the Democrats, allowing this group to present themselves as above the bickering and corruption that had become associated with the Republican internal feud. Many of the new seats that were added after the prior census ended up in Democratic hands. In addition, William Kent, who had been elected to the House as a Republican in 1908, was elected to California's 1st congressional district as an Independent.
This was the first election after the congressional reapportionment based on the 1910 Census. The Apportionment Act of 1911 also guaranteed that Arizona and New Mexico would have one seat each after those states joined the union in early 1912. Under this reapportionment, the number of representatives was increased to 435, where it currently stands (the 435-seat cap was later made permanent after the passage of the Reapportionment Act of 1929, with the exception of 1959 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states).
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^ abcd"Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved May 18, 2015.
^ abcdMartis, pp. 166–167.
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