United States House of Representatives elections, 1796
United States House of Representatives elections, 1796
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The U.S. House election, 1796 was an election for the United States House of Representatives to the Fifth United States Congress. Voting in the various states took place between August 1796 (North Carolina) and October 1797 (Tennessee). The first session was convened on May 15, 1797 at the proclamation of the new President. As Kentucky and Tennessee had not yet voted, they were unrepresented until the second session.
A number of new seats for the Federalist Party gave President John Adams a loyal Congress. Many of the Federalist pick-ups in Congress came in the Middle Colonies, where more mixed ideologies (New England was heavily Federalist and the South and West were highly Democratic-Republican) tilted toward the party of the new president. Federalist trade and infrastructural policies gained ground in the Middle Colonies during this era. With the growth of cities in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York, industrialization and mercantilism became more entrenched ideas among voting citizens in these areas.
In this period, each state fixed its own date for a congressional general election. This article covers all such state elections to the 5th Congress. Elections to a Congress took place both in the even-numbered year before and in the odd-numbered year when the Congress convened. In some states the congressional delegation was not elected until after the legal start of the Congress (on the 4th day of March in the odd numbered year).
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See also: Senate elections · Presidential elections · Gubernatorial elections
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