United States House election, 1904

United States House of Representatives elections, 1904

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November 1, 1904

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All 386 seats to the United States House of Representatives
194 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Joseph Cannon	John Sharp Williams
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Illinois-18th	Mississippi-8th
Last election	210 seats	176 seats
Seats won	251	135
Seat change	41	41

Speaker before election

Joseph Cannon
Republican

Elected Speaker

Joseph Cannon
Republican

Elections to the United States House of Representatives held in 1904 were held to elect members of the 59th Congress, and coincided with the re-election of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt's popularity swept many Republican house candidates into office, cementing their majority over the opposition Democratic Party. Because Roosevelt came from a liberal wing of the Republican Party, his ideology was prevalent among freshman representatives. Progressive Republicanism mobililized a new base of support and proved to be especially popular among the Protestant middle class workers who held jobs in business or in the front offices of industrial facilities.

The previous election of 1902 saw 3 Independent Republicans elected in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania.

In 1904, three states, with 8 seats among them, held elections early:

Party abbreviations:

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