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1910 United States House of Representatives elections

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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.

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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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Issues

Protection was the ideological cement holding the Republican coalition together. High tariffs were used by Republicans to promise higher sales to business, higher wages to industrial workers, and higher demand for their crops to farmers. Progressive insurgents said it promoted monopoly. Democrats said it was a tax on the little man. It had greatest support in the Northeast, and greatest opposition in the South and West. The Midwest was the battleground.[3] The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act in 1910 ripped the Republicans apart and set up the realignment in favor of the Democrats.[4]

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Election summaries

230 2 162
Democratic [i] Republican
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House seats by party holding plurality in state
  80+% Democratic
  80+% Republican
  60+% to 80% Democratic
  60+% to 80% Republican
  Up to 60% Democratic
  Up to 60% Republican
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Net gain in party representation
  6+ Democratic gain
 
  6+ Republican gain
  3-5 Democratic gain
 
  3-5 Republican gain
  1-2 Democratic gain
  1-2 Socialist gain
  1-2 Republican gain
  no net change
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Election dates

In 1910, two states, with 6 seats between them, held elections early:

Two newly admitted states held elections late: New Mexico and Arizona held their first elections in 1911.

Special elections

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Alabama

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Arkansas

California

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Colorado

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Connecticut

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Delaware

Florida

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Georgia

Idaho

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Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

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Kentucky

Louisiana

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Maine

Maryland

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

Minnesota

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Mississippi

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Missouri

Montana

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Nebraska

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Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

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Ohio

Oklahoma

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Texas

Utah

Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Wisconsin elected eleven members of congress on Election Day, November 8, 1910.[50][51]

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Wyoming

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Non-voting delegates

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Alaska Territory

Alaska Territory elected its non-voting delegate August 9, 1910.

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Arizona Territory

Arizona Territory elected its non-voting delegate sometime in 1910, but did not serve out the complete term as statehood was granted in 1912.

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New Mexico Territory

New Mexico Territory elected its non-voting delegate sometime in 1910, but did not serve out the complete term as statehood was granted in 1912.

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Notes

  1. Maine and Vermont held elections early, in September 1910.
  2. Including late elections
  3. Does not include 2 members from New Mexico and Arizona, elected from their new states in 1911.
  4. Does not include 1 member from New Mexico, elected from their new state in 1911
  5. Including one Independent Republican.
  6. Includes Congressmen Theron Akin of the 25th District of New York, and Samuel Tribble of the 8th District of Georgia.
  7. Theron Akin had been endorsed by the local Democratic Party in opposition to the Republican incumbent Cyrus Durey, but made known his intention to caucus with the Republican Party as a Progressive Republican upon being sworn in.
  8. Samuel Tribble ran as an Independent Democrat in opposition to incumbent Congressman William Howard.
  9. There was 1 Socialist and 1 Progressive Republican
  10. Elections held early.
  11. Including one Progressive Republican member, Theron Akin

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