1832 and 1833 United States House of Representatives elections


Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1832. They were held concurrently with the 1832 presidential election, in which Democrat Andrew Jackson was reelected.
The Jacksonians gained 17 seats, picking up several new seats in districts that were created following the 1830 census; the rival National Republican Party lost a net total of three seats. Economic issues were key factors in this election. Southern agricultural districts reacted angrily to passage of the Tariff of 1832, which led to the Nullification Crisis. President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians showed a distrust for the banking sector, particularly the central Second Bank of the United States, which was strongly supported by the rival Anti-Jacksonian Party.
The third-party Anti-Masonic Party, based on anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led states' rights party that supported South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis, picked up five seats, including all but one of the nine representatives in the South Carolina delegation.
This House initially elected Andrew Stevenson as Speaker. He resigned when President Jackson appointed him as Minister to the United Kingdom. Anti-Jacksonian Representatives were then able to elect John Bell as Speaker over James Polk.

Election summaries

Following the 1830 Census, 27 new seats were apportioned, with 4 states losing 1 seat each, 8 states having no change, and the remaining 12 states gaining between 1 and 6 seats.

Special elections

22nd Congress

23rd Congress

Alabama

Connecticut

Connecticut kept its apportionment at 6 seats and elected its members at-large April 11, 1833.

Delaware

Georgia

Georgia now had 9 seats, having gained 2 seats in reapportionment, and elected its members at-large on October 1, 1832.

Illinois

Indiana

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Mississippi

Missouri

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Following the reapportionment resulting from the 1830 census, Pennsylvania gained two representatives, increasing from 26 to 28, and was redistricted into 25 districts, two of which were plural districts. Pennsylvania elected its members October 9, 1832.

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Vermont

Vermont elected its members January 1, 1833, but two were elected late in the Spring of 1833. The 's election in the previous cycle went to eleven ballots, so its member wasn't elected until the 1832, near the beginning of this cycle.

Virginia