United States House of Representatives elections, 1832

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July 2, 1832 - October 7, 1833

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All 240 seats to the United States House of Representatives
121 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Andrew Stevenson	Lewis Williams
Party	Democratic	National Republican
Leader's seat	Virginia-11th	North Carolina-13th
Last election	126 seats	66 seats
Seats won	143	63
Seat change	17	3

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Harmar Denny	John K. Griffin
Party	Anti-Masonic	Nullifier
Leader's seat	Pennsylvania-22nd	South Carolina-9th
Last election	17 seats	4 seats
Seats won	25	9
Seat change	8	5

Speaker before election

Andrew Stevenson
Jacksonian

Elected Speaker

Andrew Stevenson
Democratic

Andrew Stevenson
Jacksonian

Andrew Stevenson
Democratic

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1832. They were held concurrently with the 1832 presidential election, in which Democrat Andrew Jackson was reelected.

The Jacksonians gained 17 seats, picking up several new seats in districts that were created following the 1830 Census; the rival National Republican Party lost a net total of three seats. Economic issues were key factors in this election. Southern agricultural districts reacted angrily to passage of the Tariff of 1832, which led to the Nullification Crisis. President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians showed a distrust for the banking sector, particularly the central Second Bank of the United States, which was strongly supported by the rival Anti-Jacksonian Party.

The third party Anti-Masonic Party, based on anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led state's rights party that supported South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis, picked up five seats, including all but one of the nine representatives in the South Carolina delegation.

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