United States House of Representatives elections, 1814

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April 26, 1814 - August 10, 1815

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All 183 seats to the United States House of Representatives
92 seats were needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Henry Clay	Timothy Pitkin
Party	Democratic-Republican	Federalist
Leader's seat	Kentucky-2nd	Connecticut-AL
Last election	114 seats	68 seats
Seats won	119	64
Seat change	5	4

Speaker before election

Langdon Cheves
Democratic-Republican

Elected Speaker

Henry Clay
Democratic-Republican

Langdon Cheves
Democratic-Republican

Henry Clay
Democratic-Republican

Elections to the United States House of Representatives for the 14th Congress were held at various dates in each state between April 1814 (in New York) and August 10, 1815 (in North Carolina) during James Madison's second term. The Congress' first session began on December 4, 1815.

This election took place in the middle of the War of 1812. Although the war was extremely unpopular in certain portions of the country, particularly New England, the dominant Democratic-Republican Party made small gains. The failed American invasion of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1812-13 and the Burning of Washington by the British in 1814 were embarrassing setbacks, but the war was viewed by many as reasonably successful. National morale was high because the small American military overall had been able to fight British forces to a draw in coastal and frontier conflict.

The election of 1814 was the last in which the declining Federalist Party was able to secure more than a third of the seats in the House of Representatives - and it was only barely able to do so.

One new seat was added with the admission of Indiana during the 2nd session of the 14th Congress

Indiana held elections in 1816 for this Congress.

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