United States House of Representatives elections, 1822

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The U.S. House election, 1822 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1822. As in all U.S. House elections prior to 1872, the various states held their elections in a long election season. The first state to hold congressional elections for the 18th Congress was Louisiana on 7/1-3/1822, and the last state to vote was North Carolina on 8/14/1823. The U.S. House assembled on 12/1/1823, though the term of office technically began on 3/4/1823.

The campaign was waged between the Democratic-Republican Party and the Federalist Party. Many historians classify the parties of the Representatives based on how they voted in the Contingent Election of 1825, at the end of the 18th Congress, with results similar to those in the following table. Michael J. Dubin classifies candidates based on the political parties supporting them in the elections of 1822-1823 (though he does not provide a nationwide tally).

The Democratic-Republican Party benefited heavily from the shifting demographics resulting from the 1820 U.S. Census; they gained 29 of 32 new seats created as a result of redistricting. Four states lost one seat each in the House, and of these the Democratic Republicans lost three seats to one for the Federalists. In other races, the Federalists lost a net of two seats, primarily due to their loss of six seats in Pennsylvania. Federalists were elected primarily along the east coast, where they won 23 out of 161 seats from New England (Maine 2 and Massachusetts 8) south to Pennsylvania (5), Delaware (1), Maryland (3), Virginia (2) and North Carolina (2). By contrast, inland states elected 59 Democratic Republicans to three Federalists (all in Ohio).

[edit] Overall results

Party	Total Seats (change)		Seat percentage
Adams-Clay Republicans	72	+34	88.7%
Jackson Republicans	64
Crawford Republicans	53
Adams-Clay Federalists	15	-8	11.3%
Jackson Federalists	7
Crawford Federalists	2
Totals	213	+26	100%