United States House of Representatives elections, 1794

United States House of Representatives elections, 1794

1792 ←
→ 1796

All 106 seats to the United States House of Representatives
54 seats were needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Frederick Muhlenberg Jonathan Dayton (Speaker of the House)
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Leader's seat Pennsylvania-2nd New Jersey-AL
Last election 54 51
Seats won 59 47
Seat change +5 -4

Speaker before election

Frederick Muhlenberg
Democratic-Republican

Elected Speaker

Jonathan Dayton
Federalist

The U.S. House election, 1794 was an election for the United States House of Representatives to the Fourth United States Congress during President George Washington's second term. Voting in the various states took place between August 1794 (New Hampshire and Rhode Island) and September 1795 (Kentucky). Congress was convened on December 7, 1795. Tennessee elected their first Representative (Andrew Jackson) on October 7, 1796.

In the second election with organized political parties, the Thomas Jefferson-led Democratic-Republican Party once again defeated the Alexander Hamilton-led Federalist Party and slightly increased their majority. These new wins by the Democratic-Republicans can mostly be attributed to the support of Jeffersonian ideas of agrarian democracy, which gained great footholds in the West.

During this period each state fixed its own date for a congressional general election. This article covers all such state elections to the 4th 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).

Overall results

Party Total
seats
Change Seat
percentage
Democratic-Republican Party 59 +5 55.7%
Federalist Party 47 -4 44.3%
Totals 106 +1 100%

See also