United States House of Representatives elections, 1910

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November 8, 1910

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All 394 seats to the United States House of Representatives 198 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party	Third party

Leader	Champ Clark	James Mann	Victor L. Berger
Party	Democratic	Republican	Socialist
Leader's seat	Missouri-9th	Illinois-2nd	Wisconsin-5th
Last election	172 seats	219 seats	0 seats
Seats won	230	163	1
Seat change	58	56	1

Speaker before election

Joseph Cannon
Republican

Elected Speaker

Champ Clark
Democratic

Joseph Cannon
Republican

Champ Clark
Democratic

Elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1910 were held for members of the 62nd Congress, in the middle of President William Howard Taft's term.

The conservative Taft contended with major factional splits within his Republican Party. Instead of using his position as president to bridge compromise, Taft alienated the progressive wing of the party, which had championed his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. While conservatives controlled the largest number of elected positions for Republicans, progressive politics had been what brought many voters to the polls. The clash of these units of the Republican Party, combined with the message of unity from the Democratic Party, was enough to allow the Democrats to take control of the House, ending 16 years in opposition. Also, the first-ever Socialist won a seat during the elections.

Three seats were added for the new states of New Mexico (2), and Arizona (1).

In 1910, two states, with 6 seats between them, held elections early:

Two newly admitted states held elections late: New Mexico held its first Congressional election on November 7, 1911 and, Arizona held its on December 11, 1911.

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