United States House of Representatives elections, 1794

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August 24, 1794 - September 5, 1795

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All 105 seats to the United States House of Representatives
53 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Frederick Muhlenberg	Jonathan Dayton
Party	Democratic-Republican	Federalist
Leader's seat	Pennsylvania-2nd	New Jersey-AL
Last election	54 seats	51 seats
Seats won	59	47
Seat change	5	4

Results:

Federalist majority

Anti-Federalist majority

Even split

Speaker before election

Frederick Muhlenberg
Democratic-Republican

Elected Speaker

Jonathan Dayton
Federalist

Frederick Muhlenberg
Democratic-Republican

Jonathan Dayton
Federalist

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 4th Congress were held on various dates in each state between August 25, 1794 (New Hampshire), and September 5, 1795 (Kentucky). The election was held during President George Washington's second term. The voters of Tennessee elected their first congressional representative (Andrew Jackson) on October 7, 1796.

In the second election for the House of Representatives with organized political parties, the Democratic-Republican Party, led by Thomas Jefferson, once again defeated the Federalist Party, led by Alexander Hamilton, and slightly increased their majority. These new wins by the Democratic-Republicans can mostly be attributed to the popularity of Jeffersonian ideas of agrarian democracy in the Western territories of the United States.

During this period, each state fixed its own date for a congressional general election. Elections took place both in the even-numbered year before and in the odd-numbered year when a Congress convened. In some states, the congressional delegation was not elected until after the legal start of the Congress (on the 4th day of March in the odd-numbered year).

One new seat was added during the 4th Congress upon the admission of Tennessee on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was not represented in the 1st session.

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