United States House of Representatives elections, 1798

Elections to the United States House of Representatives took place in 1798 and 1799. Voting in the various states for Representatives in the Sixth United States Congress took place at times ranging from April 1798 in New York to August 1799 in Tennessee, even after the legal begin of the Congress term on March 4, 1799. The first session of this Congress met in Philadelphia on December 2, 1799. It was the last session before moving to the new capital at Washington.

President John Adams, a Federalist elected two years prior in the election of 1796, remained popular during a time of national economic growth, and the Federalists made a modest gain of three seats at the expense of the opposition Democratic-Republicans, the party of Vice President and future President Thomas Jefferson, resulting in further Federalist control of the House, 60-46 seats.

Despite this, a variety of controversial new laws passed by Congress in the summer of 1798, including the Naturalization Act of 1798 and the Alien and Sedition Acts eventually hurt Adams and the Federalists.

Overall results