United States House of Representatives elections, 1818

The U.S. House election, 1818 was an election for the United States House of Representatives to the Sixteenth United States Congress. Voting in the various states was held between April 1818 (New York) and September 1819 (Alabama). The Congress assembled on December 6, 1819.

The election occurred in a time period that featured no pressing federal issues and a feeling of national consensus to the effectiveness of the ruling party. The Federalist collapse continued, as support for the party was dismal outside of New England due to a decline in an acceptance of their ideology and lingering anger over the secessionist doctrine produced at the Hartford Convention. The Democratic-Republicans used this election to increase their enormous majority.

Overall results

External links

• http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History