United States House of Representatives elections, 1918

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November 5, 1918

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All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives
218 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Frederick Gillett	Champ Clark
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Massachusetts-2nd	Missouri-9th
Last election	216 seats	214 seats
Seats won	240	192
Seat change	25	22

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	William Carss	Charles H. Randall
Party	Farmer–Labor	Prohibition
Leader's seat	Minnesota-8th	California-9th
Last election	0 seats	1 seat
Seats won	1	1
Seat change	1

Speaker before election

Champ Clark
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Frederick Gillett
Republican

Champ Clark
Democratic

Frederick Gillett
Republican

The 1918 United States House of Representatives elections were held November 5, 1918, which occurred in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson's second term.

With the country now in World War I (contrary to previous promises by Wilson), and Wilson's personal popularity ebbing, the Republican Party was able to gain 25 seats and take over control of the House from Wilson's Democratic Party. Internal divide among Democratic leadership over aspects related to payment of the war also decreased the unity of the party, which had been the organization's strength during the decade. The Progressive Party also disappeared, with its former members generally becoming Democrats. Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Party, a descendant of populism, also gained its very first seat.

Frederick H. Gillett (R-Massachusetts) became Speaker, and previous speaker Champ Clark (D-Missouri) became Minority Leader.

¹ One vacancy, Victor L. Berger, a member of the Socialist Party of America, whom the House refused to seat.

This was the first election in which Idaho was divided into districts, formerly it had had a single at-large district with two seats.

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