United States House election, 1926

United States House of Representatives elections, 1926

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November 2, 1926

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All 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives
218 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Nicholas Longworth	Finis Garrett
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Ohio 1st	Tennessee-9th
Last election	247 seats	183 seats
Seats won	238	194
Seat change	9	11

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Farmer–Labor	Socialist
Last election	3 seats	1 seat
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	1

Speaker before election

Nicholas Longworth
Republican

Elected Speaker

Nicholas Longworth
Republican

The 1926 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1926 which occurred in the middle of President Calvin Coolidge's second term. Coolidge's Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party, but it retained a majority. The most pressing national matters at the time were fragmented, generally related to government's relationship to business or to providing social aid. However, no predominant issue was able to cast a shadow over the election. The small, populist Farmer-Labor Party also held two seats following the election.

Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

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