United States House of Representatives elections, 1798

United States House of Representatives elections, 1798

1796 ← April 24, 1798 - August 1, 1799 → 1800

All 106 seats to the United States House of Representatives 54 seats were needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party   Leader Theodore Sedgwick Nathaniel Macon Party Federalist Democratic-Republican Leader's seat Massachusetts-1st North Carolina-5th Last election 57 seats 49 seats Seats won 60 46 Seat change 3 3

Results:   Federalist majority   Anti-Federalist majority   Even split

Speaker before election Jonathan Dayton Federalist Elected Speaker Theodore Sedgwick Federalist

Jonathan Dayton
Federalist

Theodore Sedgwick
Federalist

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 6th Congress took place in 1798 and 1799, the earliest in New York in April 1798, and the latest in Tennessee in August 1799, after the official start of the 6th Congress on March 4, 1799, but before the start of the first session of this Congress in Philadelphia on December 2, 1799. It was the last congressional session before the move to the new capital at Washington, D.C..

President John Adams, a Federalist elected two years prior in the election of 1796, remained popular during a time of national economic growth, and the Federalists made a modest gain of three seats at the expense of the opposition Democratic-Republicans, the party of Vice President and future President Thomas Jefferson. This resulted in an increased Federalist majority in the House, 60-46 seats.