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1910 United States House of Representatives elections

1910 United States House of Representatives elections

← 1908 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.

Issues[edit]

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]

Election summaries[edit]

State	Type	Total seats	Democratic		Republican		Socialist
			Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Alabama	Districts	9	9		0		0
Arkansas	Districts	7	7		0		0
California	Districts	8	1	1	7	1	0
Colorado	Districts + at-large	3	3		0		0
Connecticut	Districts + at-large	5	1	1	4	1	0
Delaware	At-large	1	0		1		0
Florida	Districts	3	3		0		0
Georgia	Districts	11	11		0		0
Idaho	At-large	1	0		1		0
Illinois	Districts	25	11	5	14	5	0
Indiana	Districts	13	12	1	1	1	0
Iowa	Districts	11	1		10		0
Kansas	Districts	8	0		8		0
Kentucky	Districts	11	9	1	2	1	0
Louisiana	Districts	7	7		0		0
Maine[j]	Districts	4	2	2	2	2	0
Maryland	Districts	6	5	2	1	2	0
Massachusetts	Districts	14	4	1	10	1	0
Michigan	Districts	12	2	2	10	2	0
Minnesota	Districts	9	1		8		0
Mississippi	Districts	8	8		0		0
Missouri	Districts	16	14	4	2	4	0
Montana	At-large	1	0		1		0
Nebraska	Districts	6	3		3		0
Nevada	At-large	1	0	1	1	1	0
New Hampshire	Districts	2	0		2		0
New Jersey	Districts	10	7	4	3	4	0
New York	Districts	37	22	11	15[k]	11	0
North Carolina	Districts	10	10	3	0	3	0
North Dakota	Districts	2	0		2		0
Ohio	Districts	21	16	8	5	8	0
Oklahoma	Districts	5	3	1	2	1	0
Oregon	Districts	2	0		2		0
Pennsylvania	Districts	32	9	4	23	4	0
Rhode Island	Districts	2	1	1	1	1	0
South Carolina	Districts	7	7		0		0
South Dakota	At-large	2	0		2		0
Tennessee	Districts	10	8		2		0
Texas	Districts	16	16		0		0
Utah	At-large	1	0		1		0
Vermont[j]	Districts	2	0		2		0
Virginia	Districts	10	9		1		0
Washington	Districts	3	0		3		0
West Virginia	Districts	5	4	4	1	4	0
Wisconsin	Districts	11	2	1	8	2	1	1
Wyoming	At-large	1	0		1		0
Total[b]		391	228 58.4%	56	162[k] 41.4%	57	1 0.3%	1

Election dates[edit]

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

• September 6, Vermont
• September 12, Maine

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

Special elections[edit]

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Alabama[edit]

Arkansas[edit]

California[edit]

Colorado[edit]

Connecticut[edit]

Delaware[edit]

Florida[edit]

Georgia[edit]

Idaho[edit]

Illinois[edit]

Indiana[edit]

Iowa[edit]

Kansas[edit]

Kentucky[edit]

Louisiana[edit]

Maine[edit]

Maryland[edit]

Massachusetts[edit]

Michigan[edit]

Minnesota[edit]

Mississippi[edit]

Missouri[edit]

Montana[edit]

Nebraska[edit]

Nevada[edit]

New Hampshire[edit]

New Jersey[edit]

New York[edit]

North Carolina[edit]

North Dakota[edit]

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
North Dakota at-large 2 seats on a general ticket	Louis B. Hanna	Republican	1908	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Louis B. Hanna (Republican) 32.27% ▌Y Henry T. Helgesen (Republican) 31.67% ▌Tobias D. Casey (Democratic) 16.20% ▌M. A. Hildreth (Democratic) 15.85% ▌Arthur Hagendorf (Socialist) 2.02% ▌N. H. Bjornstad (Socialist) 1.99%[23]
	Asle Gronna	Republican	1904	Incumbent retired to run for U.S. senator. New member elected. Republican hold.

Ohio[edit]

Oklahoma[edit]

Oregon[edit]

Pennsylvania[edit]

Rhode Island[edit]

South Carolina[edit]

South Dakota[edit]

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
South Dakota at-large (2 seats elected on a general ticket)	Charles H. Burke	Republican	1908	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Charles H. Burke (Republican) 31.73% ▌Y Eben Martin (Republican) 31.59% ▌W. W. Soule (Democratic) 16.00% ▌John E. Kelley (Democratic) 15.84% ▌Knute Lewis (Prohibition) 2.03% ▌W. J. Edgar (Prohibition) 2.02% ▌Isaac M. Burnside (Independent) 0.80%[31]
	Eben Martin	Republican	1908	Incumbent re-elected.

Tennessee[edit]

Texas[edit]

Utah[edit]

Vermont[edit]

Virginia[edit]