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1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections

1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections

← 1830 & 1831 July 2, 1832 – October 7, 1833[a] 1834 & 1835 →
All 240 seats in the United States House of Representatives 121 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Andrew Stevenson Lewis Williams Party Jacksonian National Republican Leader's seat Virginia 11th North Carolina 13th Last election 126 seats 66 seats Seats won 143[b] 63[b] Seat change 17 3   Third party Fourth party   Party Anti-Masonic Nullifier Last election 17 seats 4 seats Seats won 25 9 Seat change 8 5
Speaker before election Andrew Stevenson Jacksonian Elected Speaker Andrew Stevenson Jacksonian

The 1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 2, 1832, and October 7, 1833. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 23rd United States Congress convened on December 2, 1833. They were held concurrently with the 1832 presidential election, in which Democrat^[c] Andrew Jackson was re-elected. The congressional reapportionment based on the 1830 United States census increased the size of the House to 240 seats.

The Jacksonians^[c] gained 17 seats, picking up several new seats in districts that were created by the reapportionment, with the rival National Republican Party losing three seats.

Economic issues were key factors in this election: Southern agricultural districts reacted angrily to the passage of the Tariff of 1832, which led to the Nullification Crisis. President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians showed a distrust for the banking sector, particularly the central Second Bank of the United States, which was strongly supported by the rival National Republican Party.^[d]

The third-party Anti-Masonic Party, based on anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led states' rights party that supported South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis, picked up eight of the nine representatives in South Carolina's delegation.

The House initially elected Andrew StevensonasSpeaker, but he resigned from the House after President Jackson appointed him as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom: National Republican Representatives subsequently elected John Bell as Speaker over James Polk.

Election summaries[edit]

Following the 1830 census, 27 new seats were apportioned,^[1] with 4 states losing 1 seat each, 8 states having no change, and the remaining 12 states gaining between 1 and 6 seats.

State	Type	Date	Total seats		National Republican		Anti-Masonic		Jacksonian		Nullifier
			Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Delaware	At-large	November 13, 1832	1		1		0		0		0
Georgia	At-large	October 1, 1832	9	2	0		0		9	2	0
Illinois	Districts	August 6, 1832	3	2	0		0		3	2	0
Louisiana[e]	Districts	July 2–4, 1832	3		3		0		0		0
Mississippi	At-large	August 6–7, 1832	2	1	0		0		2	1	0
Missouri[f]	At-large	August 5–6, 1833	2	1	2	1	0		0		0
New Jersey	At-large	November 6, 1832	6		0	6	0		6	6	0
New York	District	November 5–7, 1832	40	6	0	3	8		32	9	0
Ohio	Districts	October 9, 1832	19	5	6	2	2	2	11	5	0
Pennsylvania	Districts	October 9, 1832	28	2	4	2	10	3	14	3	0
Late elections (after the March 4, 1833, beginning of the term)
Alabama	Districts	August 5, 1833	5	2	0		0		4	1	1	1
Connecticut	At-large	April 11, 1833	6		6		0		0		0
Indiana	Districts	August 5, 1833	7	4	1	1	0		6	3	0
Kentucky	Districts	August 5, 1833	13	1	9	5	0		4	4	0
Maine	Districts	September 9, 1833	8	1	1		0		7	1	0
Maryland	Districts	October 7, 1833	8	1	2	3	0		6	2	0
Massachusetts	Districts	April 1, 1833	12	1	9	4	2	2	1	1	0
New Hampshire	At-large	March 12, 1833	5	1	0		0		5	1	0
North Carolina	Districts	August 8, 1833	13		7	5	0		6	5	0
Rhode Island	At-large	August 27, 1833	2		1	1	1	1	0		0
South Carolina	Districts	September 2–3, 1833	9		0		0		1	4	8	4
Tennessee	Districts	August 1–2, 1833	13	4	1		0		12	4	0
Vermont	Districts	January 1, 1833	5		3		2		0		0
Virginia	Districts	April 1833	21	1	7	2	0		14	3	0
Total			240	27	63 26.3%	3	25 10.4%	8	143 59.6%	17	9 3.8%	5

Special elections[edit]

22nd Congress[edit]

23rd Congress[edit]

Alabama[edit]

Connecticut[edit]

Connecticut kept its apportionment at 6 seats and elected its members at-large April 11, 1833.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Connecticut at-large 6 seats on a general ticket	Noyes Barber	National Republican	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Noyes Barber (National Republican) 9.83% ▌Y William W. Ellsworth (National Republican) 9.78% ▌Y Ebenezer Young (National Republican) 9.76% ▌Y Jabez W. Huntington (National Republican) 9.18% ▌Y Samuel A. Foot (National Republican) 7.80% ▌Y Samuel Tweedy (National Republican) 7.59% ▌Andrew T. Judson (Jacksonian) 7.26% ▌Epaphias Porter (Jacksonian) 7.17% ▌William Hollabird (Jacksonian) 7.02% ▌Samuel Simons (Jacksonian) 6.70% ▌Gideon Wells (Jacksonian) 6.65% ▌Labun Clark (Jacksonian) 6.38% ▌William Hubbard (Anti-Masonic) 2.08% ▌Alanson Hamlin (Anti-Masonic) 1.96% Scattering <1.00 %[11]
	William W. Ellsworth	National Republican	1829	Incumbent re-elected.
	Ebenezer Young	National Republican	1829	Incumbent re-elected.
	Jabez W. Huntington	National Republican	1829	Incumbent re-elected.
	Ralph I. Ingersoll	National Republican	1825	Incumbent retired. New member elected. National Republican hold.
	William L. Storrs	National Republican	1829	Incumbent retired. New member elected. National Republican hold.

Delaware[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Georgia now had 9 seats, having gained 2 seats in reapportionment, and elected its members at-large on October 1, 1832.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Georgia at-large 9 seats on a general ticket	James M. Wayne	Jacksonian	1828	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y James M. Wayne (Jacksonian) 8.19% ▌Y Richard H. Wilde (Jacksonian) 7.18% ▌Y George Gilmer (Jacksonian) 6.27% ▌Y Augustin S. Clayton (Jacksonian) 6.22% ▌Y Thomas F. Foster (Jacksonian) 6.14% ▌Y Roger L. Gamble (Jacksonian) 5.84% ▌Y Seaborn Jones (Jacksonian) 5.45% ▌Y William Schley (Jacksonian) 5.39% ▌Y John E. Coffee (Jacksonian) 5.36% ▌Charles E. Haynes (Jacksonian) 5.21% ▌George W. Owens (Jacksonian) 5.14% ▌James C. Terrell (Jacksonian) 5.14% ▌James C. Watson (Jacksonian) 5.03% ▌Henry Branham (Jacksonian) 4.94%[12]
	Richard Henry Wilde	Jacksonian	1814 1816 (lost) 1824 (special) 1826 (lost) 1827 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.
	Wiley Thompson	Jacksonian	1820	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	Augustin S. Clayton	Jacksonian	1831 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.
	Thomas F. Foster	Jacksonian	1828	Incumbent re-elected.
	Henry G. Lamar	Jacksonian	1829 (special)	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	Daniel Newnan	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	New seat			New seat. Jacksonian gain.
	New seat			New seat. Jacksonian gain.

Illinois[edit]

Illinois gained two seats in reapportionment and elected its three members on August 6, 1832.

Indiana[edit]

Kentucky[edit]

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Louisiana[edit]

Maine[edit]

Maine held its elections September 9, 1833.

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Maryland[edit]

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Massachusetts[edit]

Elections were held April 1, 1833, after the term began but before the House convened in December 1833. However, at least one district went to several ballots into early 1834.

Mississippi[edit]

Elections held early, on August 6, 1832.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Mississippi at-large 2 seats on a general ticket	Franklin E. Plummer	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Franklin E. Plummer (Jacksonian) 33.38% ▌Y Harry Cage (Jacksonian) 32.59% ▌John I. Guion (Unknown) 19.20% ▌Felix H. Walker (Unknown) 9.39% ▌Nathan Bouldin (Unknown) 5.45%[36]
	None (New seat)			New seat. Jacksonian gain.

Missouri[edit]

Missouri elected one member on August 6, 1832, and the other on August 5, 1833.

New Hampshire[edit]

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Hampshire at-large 5 seats	John Brodhead	Jacksonian	1829	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	Elected on a general ticket: ▌Y Henry Hubbard (Jacksonian) 15.19% ▌Y Benning M. Bean (Jacksonian) 15.14% ▌Y Franklin Pierce (Jacksonian) 15.14% ▌Y Robert Burns (Jacksonian) 15.12% ▌Y Joseph M. Harper (Jacksonian) 15.05% ▌Anthony Colby (National Republican) 4.39% ▌John Wingate (National Republican) 4.20% ▌Samuel E. Cones (National Republican) 3.95% ▌Leonard Wilcox (National Republican) 3.00% ▌James Wilson (National Republican) 2.77% ▌John Gould (Anti-Masonic) 1.23% ▌Caleb Emery (Anti-Masonic) 1.22% ▌Azel Hatch (Anti-Masonic) 1.21% ▌Daniel C. Atkinson (Anti-Masonic) 1.20% ▌William Plumer Jr. (Anti-Masonic) 1.19%[37]
	Thomas Chandler	Jacksonian	1829	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	Joseph Hammons	Jacksonian	1829	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	Joseph M. Harper	Jacksonian	1831	Incumbent re-elected.
	Henry Hubbard	Jacksonian	1829	Incumbent re-elected.

New Jersey[edit]

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Jersey at-large 6 seats on a general ticket	Silas Condit	National Republican	1830	Incumbent lost reelection. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y William Shinn (Jacksonian) 51.17% ▌Y Ferdinand Schenck (Jacksonian) 50.99% ▌Y Thomas Lee (Jacksonian) 50.96% ▌Y James Parker (Jacksonian) 50.19% ▌Y Philemon Dickerson (Jacksonian) 50.11% ▌Y Samuel Fowler (Jacksonian) 50.00% ▌Silas Condit (National Republican) 49.95% ▌Samuel G. Wright (National Republican) 49.94% ▌William Pennington (National Republican) 49.92% ▌David Reeves (National Republican) 48.88% ▌Isaac Southard (National Republican) 48.96% ▌Samuel W. Budd (National Republican) 48.83% [10]
	Thomas H. Hughes	National Republican	1828	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.
	James F. Randolph	National Republican	1828 (special)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.
	Richard M. Cooper	National Republican	1828	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.
	Isaac Southard	National Republican	1830	Incumbent lost reelection. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.
	Lewis Condict	National Republican	1821 (special)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.

New York[edit]

New York elected its 40 members from November 5 to 7, 1832. It gained seven members from reapportionment. Two members were elected in the 8th, 17th, 22nd, and 23rd districts, while four members were elected in the 3rd district on a general ticket.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New York 1	James Lent	Jacksonian	1828	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Abel Huntington (Jacksonian) 59.9% ▌David Gardiner (National Republican) 40.1%[38]
New York 2	John T. Bergen	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Isaac B. Van Houten (Jacksonian) 57.5% ▌John S. Gurnee (National Republican) 42.5%[39]
New York 3 4 seats on a general ticket	Churchill C. Cambreleng	Jacksonian	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Cornelius Lawrence (Jacksonian) 15.0% ▌Y Campbell P. White (Jacksonian) 15.0% ▌Y Dudley Selden (Jacksonian) 14.8% ▌Y Churchill C. Cambreleng (Jacksonian) 14.8% ▌David Ogden (National Republican) 10.2% ▌Hubert Van Wagenen (National Republican) 10.2% ▌Jonathan Thompson (National Republican) 10.0% ▌George F. Talman (National Republican) 10.0%[40]
	Campbell P. White	Jacksonian	1828	Incumbent re-elected.
	Gulian C. Verplanck	Jacksonian	1824	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
	None (New seat)			New seat. Jacksonian gain.
New York 4	Aaron Ward	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Aaron Ward (Jacksonian) 57.8% ▌Henry B. Cowles (National Republican) 42.2%[41]
New York 5	Edmund H. Pendleton	National Republican	1830	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y Abraham Bockee (Jacksonian) 52.7% ▌Edmund H. Pendleton (National Republican) 47.3%[42]
New York 6	Samuel J. Wilkin	National Republican	1830	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y John W. Brown (Jacksonian) 59.0% ▌Samuel J. Wilkin (National Republican) 41.0%[43]
New York 7	John C. Brodhead	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Charles Bodle (Jacksonian) 59.7% ▌Thomas S. Lockwood (National Republican) 40.3%[44]
New York 8 2 seats on a general ticket	John King	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y John Adams (Jacksonian) 28.0% ▌Y Aaron Vanderpoel (Jacksonian) 27.6% ▌Jedediah Miller (National Republican) 22.4% ▌John Martin (National Republican) 22.1%[45]
	None (New seat)			New seat. Jacksonian gain.
New York 9	Job Pierson	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Job Pierson (Jacksonian) 53.5% ▌John D. Dickinson (Anti-Masonic) 46.5%[46]
New York 10	Gerrit Y. Lansing	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Gerrit Y. Lansing (Jacksonian) 51.0% ▌Ambrose Spencer (Anti-Masonic) 49.0%[47]
New York 11	John W. Taylor Redistricted from the 17th district	National Republican	1812	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y John Cramer (Jacksonian) 51.6% ▌John W. Taylor (National Republican) 48.4%[48]
New York 12	Joseph Bouck	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Masonic gain.	▌Y Henry C. Martindale (Anti-Masonic) 44.5% ▌John McIntyre (Jacksonian) 31.7% ▌Samuel Stevens (National Republican) 23.7%[49]
New York 13	William G. Angel	Jacksonian	1828	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Reuben Whallon (Jacksonian) 55.2% ▌Thomas D. Gilson (National Republican) 44.8%[50]
New York 14	Erastus Root Redistricted from the 11th district	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Ransom H. Gillet (Jacksonian) 50.5% ▌Luther Bradish (Anti-Masonic) 49.5%[51]
New York 15	Michael Hoffman	Jacksonian	1824	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Charles McVean (Jacksonian) 56.2% ▌Howland Fish (National Republican) 43.8%[52]
New York 16	Nathan Soule	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Abijah Mann Jr. (Jacksonian) 59.6% ▌Ela Collins (National Republican) 40.4%[53]
New York 17 2 seats on a general ticket	Samuel Beardsley Redistricted from the 14th district	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Samuel Beardsley (Jacksonian) 26.4% ▌Y Joel Turrill (Jacksonian) 25.2% ▌Charles P. Kirkland (Anti-Masonic) 24.6% ▌Peter S. Smith (Anti-Masonic) 23.8%[54]
	Nathaniel Pitcher Redistricted from the 18th district	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.
New York 18	Daniel Wardwell Redistricted from the 20th district	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Daniel Wardwell (Jacksonian) 50.03% ▌Daniel Lee (Anti-Masonic) 49.97%[55]
New York 19	William Hogan	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent lost renomination. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Sherman Page (Jacksonian) 54.9% ▌John C. Morris (Anti-Masonic) 45.1%[56]
New York 20	John A. Collier Redistricted from the 21st district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y Noadiah Johnson (Jacksonian) 53.8% ▌John A. Collier (Anti-Masonic) 46.2%[57]
New York 21	Charles Dayan Redistricted from the 20th district	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Henry Mitchell (Jacksonian) 52.6% ▌Tilly Lynde (Anti-Masonic) 47.4%[58]
New York 22 2 seats on a general ticket	Edward C. Reed	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Nicoll Halsey (Jacksonian) 27.2% ▌Y Samuel G. Hathaway (Jacksonian) 27.1% ▌Eleazer W. Edgecomb (Anti-Masonic) 22.9% ▌Gamaliel H. Barstow (Anti-Masonic) 22.9%[59]
	Gamaliel H. Barstow Redistricted from the 25th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.
New York 23 2 seats on a general ticket	Freeborn G. Jewett	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y William K. Fuller (Jacksonian) 25.9% ▌Y William Taylor (Jacksonian) 25.9% ▌Elijah Rhoades (Anti-Masonic) 24.1% ▌James B. Eldredge (Anti-Masonic) 24.0%[60]
	None (New seat)			New seat. Jacksonian gain.
New York 24	Ulysses F. Doubleday	Jacksonian	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian hold.	▌Y Rowland Day (Jacksonian) 53.2% ▌Laban Hoskins (Anti-Masonic) 46.8%[61]
New York 25	William Babcock Redistricted from the 26th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y Samuel Clark (Jacksonian) 52.4% ▌Joseph S. Cott (Anti-Masonic) 47.6%[62]
New York 26	John Dickson	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John Dickson (Anti-Masonic) 62.6% ▌John Price (Jacksonian) 37.4%[63]
New York 27	Grattan H. Wheeler Redistricted from the 28th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Jacksonian gain.	▌Y Edward Howell (Jacksonian) 63.2% ▌William Woods (Anti-Masonic) 36.8%[64]
New York 28	Frederick Whittlesey Redistricted from the 27th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Frederick Whittlesey (Anti-Masonic) 58.9% ▌Isaac Hills (Jacksonian) 41.1%[65]
New York 29	Phineas L. Tracy	Anti-Masonic	1827 (special)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Masonic hold.	▌Y George W. Lay (Anti-Masonic) 70.3% ▌David C. Miller (Jacksonian) 29.7%[66]
New York 30	Bates Cooke	Anti-Masonic	1830	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Anti-Masonic hold.	▌Y Philo C. Fuller (Anti-Masonic) 57.7% ▌James Faulkner Jr. (Jacksonian) 42.3%[67]
New York 31	None (New seat)			New seat. Anti-Masonic gain.	▌Y Abner Hazeltine (Anti-Masonic) 60.7% ▌Alson Leavenworth (Jacksonian) 39.3%[68]
New York 32	None (New seat)			New seat. Anti-Masonic gain.	▌Y Millard Fillmore (Anti-Masonic) 69.6% ▌Jonathan Hoyt (Jacksonian) 30.4%[69]
New York 33	None (New seat)			New seat. Anti-Masonic gain.	▌Y Gideon Hard (Anti-Masonic) 58.6% ▌Franklin Butterfield (Jacksonian) 41.4%[70]

North Carolina[edit]

Ohio[edit]

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Pennsylvania[edit]

Following the reapportionment resulting from the 1830 census, Pennsylvania gained two representatives, increasing from 26 to 28, and was redistricted into 25 districts, two of which were plural districts. Pennsylvania elected its members October 9, 1832.