United States House of Representatives elections, 1922

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

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	Frederick Gillett	Finis Garrett
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader's seat	Massachusetts-2nd	Tennessee-9th
Last election	302 seats	131 seats
Seats won	225	207
Seat change	77	76

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Ole J. Kvale	Victor L. Berger
Party	Farmer–Labor	Socialist
Leader's seat	Minnesota-7th	Wisconsin-5th
Last election	0 seats	1 seat
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2

Speaker before election

Frederick Gillett
Republican

Elected Speaker

Frederick Gillett
Republican

The 1922 United States House of Representatives elections were held for the United States House of Representatives in November 1922 which occurred in the middle of President Warren G. Harding's term.

The Republican Party lost a net of 77 seats to the opposition Democratic Party, particularly in some of the traditionally Democratic areas that had been carried by the wave of 1920. An internal split briefly undermined Republican leadership, as progressives and conservatives once again clashed. With Senator Bob La Follette as their unofficial leader, new progressives formed a somewhat small but highly vocal group. Republican troubles were extended when older era progressives who had supported Theodore Roosevelt failed to completely embrace the arguments of La Follette progressives. Republicans nonetheless retained a narrow majority, although splits in the party made it difficult for Harding to govern. In Minnesota, the Farmer-Labor Party, an offshoot of populism, also gained several seats.

Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

Pennsylvania was one of the only states to conduct redistricting between 1920 and 1922, when no nationwide reapportionment occurred. Incumbents have been shown in the most closely corresponding new districts. The four districts shown as new below replaced the four at-large seats used previously; since the at-large seats were all Republican held, the new districts are only nominally Republican gains.

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