United States House of Representatives elections, 1944

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November 7, 1944

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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	Sam Rayburn	Joseph Martin
Party	Democratic	Republican
Leader's seat	Texas-4th	Massachusetts-14th
Last election	222 seats	209 seats
Seats won	242	191
Seat change	20	18
Popular vote	23,380,045	21,256,035
Percentage	51.8%	47.1%
Swing	4.8%	3.7%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Vito Marcantonio	Merlin Hull
Party	American Labor	Progressive
Leader's seat	New York-18th	Wisconsin-9th
Last election	1 seat	2 seats
Seats won	1	1
Seat change		1
Popular vote	152,101	108,068
Percentage	0.3%	0.2%
Swing		0.5%

Speaker before election

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

Elected Speaker

Sam Rayburn
Democratic

The 1944 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1944 which coincided with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's re-election to a record fourth term.

Roosevelt's popularity allowed his Democratic Party to gain a total of twenty seats from the Republican and minor parties, cementing the Democratic majority. Also, Americans rallied behind allied success in World War II, and in turn voted favorably for the administration's course of action.

Source: Election Statistics - Office of the Clerk

Some special elections were held on dates other than in November.

Florida redistricted for this cycle, converting the 6th seat it had previously gained at reapportionment from an at-large seat to an additional district near Fort Lauderdale.

New York, after having used 2 at-large districts to avoid redistricting at the last reapportionment, redistricted into 45 districts for this election, with substantial boundary changes across the state. Manhattan went from 10 districts to 6, with Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens going from 10 to 15.

Pennsylvania redistricted from 32 districts and an at-large seat to 33 districts.

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