United States House of Representatives elections, 1814

United States House of Representatives elections, 1814

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All 183 seats to the United States House of Representatives
92 seats were needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Henry Clay Timothy Pitkin
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Leader's seat Kentucky-2nd Connecticut-AL
Last election 114 68
Seats won 119 64
Seat change +5 -4

Speaker before election

Langdon Cheves
Democratic-Republican

Elected Speaker

Henry Clay
Democratic-Republican

The U.S. House election, 1814 was an election for the United States House of Representatives to the Fourteenth United States Congress. Voting in the various states was held between April 1814 (New York) and August 10, 1815 (North Carolina). The Congress met on December 4, 1815. Indiana elected its first Representative on August 5, 1816.

Although this election was fought in the middle of the War of 1812, which was extremely unpopular in certain portions of the country, the ruling Democratic-Republican Party made slight gains. Despite the negatives of the war, including the failed American invasion of Upper Canada (Ontario) and the siege of the nation's capital by the British, the war was viewed by many as relatively successful. National morale was high because the small American military had been able to fight a relatively even war with the powerful, but overstretched, British forces in this mostly coastal and frontier conflict.

Overall results

Party Total seats (change) Seat percentage
Democratic-Republicans 119 +5 65.0%
Federalists 64 -4 35.0%
Totals 183 +1 100%

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