1916 United States House of Representatives elections information
House elections for the 65th U.S. Congress
1916 United States House of Representatives elections
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November 7, 1916[a]
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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 9th
Illinois 2nd
Last election
230 seats
196 seats
Seats won
214[b]
215[c]
Seat change
16
19
Popular vote
7,641,274
8,052,247
Percentage
45.64%
48.09%
Swing
3.68%
5.47%
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Progressive
Socialist
Last election
6 seats
1 seat
Seats won
3
1
Seat change
3
Popular vote
131,103[d]
604,304
Percentage
0.78%
3.61%
Swing
7.22%
0.93%
Fifth party
Sixth party
Party
Prohibition
Independent
Last election
1 seat
1 seat
Seats won
1
1 [e]
Seat change
Popular vote
248,451
65,586
Percentage
1.48%
0.39%
Swing
0.20%
0.16%
Results: Democratic hold Democratic gain Republican hold Republican gain Progressive hold Progressive gain Prohibition hold Socialist hold
Speaker before election
Champ Clark
Democratic
Elected Speaker
Champ Clark
Democratic
1916 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 65th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 7, 1916, while Maine held theirs on September 11. They coincided with the re-election of President Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson eked out a narrow re-election, but his Democratic Party lost seats to the Republican Party. Wilson's hybrid approach, which injected a progressive element into Democratic policies, had proved to be dissatisfying to much of the nation. International affairs also became important in the traditionally non-interventionist United States, as voters attempted to determine which party would be best served to keep the nation from entering The Great War.
Republicans won a plurality of seats in the 1916 election. However, when the 65th Congress convened in April 1917, the Democrats narrowly maintained control of the House, forming an alliance with third-party (Progressive and Socialist) members. Not since the 34th Congress (1855–1857) had the party with the most seats not been part of the ruling government. This Congress is the last example to date of a type of coalition holding power in the House, rather than a single party winning a majority of seats. This was also the last time that no party in the house held an overall majority
Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, became the first woman ever elected to congress.
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