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United States House of Representatives elections, 1932
United States House of Representatives elections, 1932
The overwhelming unpopularity of incumbent Herbert Hoover caused his Republican ‹ 1930 1934 › Party to lose over 100 seats to Roosevelt’s United States House of Representatives elections, 1932 Democratic Party and the small FarmerLabor Party. The Democrats retained the maAll 435 seats to the United States House of Representatives jority they had gained through special elecNovember 2, 1932 tions in the last Congress, and expanded it to Majority party Minority party a commanding level. This round of elections was seen as a referendum on the once popular Republican business practices, which were buried by new, more liberal Democratic ideas. The inability of the Hoover government to cope with the Great Depression was the main issue surrounding this election.
Overall results
Party Democratic Party Republican Party FarmerLabor Party
Leader Party Leader’s seat Last election Seats won Seat change Henry Rainey Democratic Illinois-20th 216 seats 313 +97 Republican New York-31st 218 seats California 117 -101 See also
Total seats (change) 313 117 5 +97 -101 +4 +0
Seat percentage 71.9% 26.8% 1.1% 100.0%
Bertrand Snell Totals 435
Incumbent Speaker John Nance Garner Democratic Speaker-elect Henry Rainey Democratic
• 73rd United States Congress • U.S. Senate election, 1932 • U.S. presidential election, 1932
The U.S. House election, 1932 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1932 which coincided with the landslide election of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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District Incumbent Party
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Elected Status 1916 1926 1930 1926 Opponent
California Clarence F. Lea 1 California Harry Lane 2 Englebright
Democratic Republican
Running Clarence F. Lea (D) (unopposed) Running Harry Lane Englebright (R) (unopposed) Running Frank H. Buck (D) 56.8% Charles F. Curry (R) 43.2% Running Florence Prag Kahn (R) 85.3% Milen C. Dempster (S) 14.7% Running Richard J. Welch (R) (unopposed) Running Albert E. Carter (R) (unopposed) Ralph R. Eltse (R) 45.5% Frank V. Cornish (D) 32.0% J. Stitt Wilson (S) 22.5%
California Charles F. Curry, Republican 3 Jr. California Florence Prag 4 Kahn Republican
California Richard J. Welch Republican 5 California Albert E. Carter 6 California None (District 7 created) California Arthur M. Free 8 Republican Republican
1926 1924
1920 1918
Running John J. McGrath (R) 56.9% Arthur M. Free (R) 43.1% Running Denver S. Church (D) 61.6% Henry E. Barbour (R) 38.4% Henry E. Stubbs (D) 55.3% Arthur S. Crites (R) 44.7%
California Henry E. Barbour Republican 9 California None (District 10 created) California William E. Evans Republican 11
1926
Running William E. Evans (R) 51.8% Albert D. Hadley (D) 34.3% Marshall V. Hartranft (Liberty) 13.9% John H. Hoeppel (D) 45.8% Frederick F. Houser (R) 43.2% Richard M. Cannon (Proh.) 11.0% Charles Kramer (D) 52.7% Charles H. Randall (R) 43.1% George D. Higgins (Liberty) 4.2% Thomas F. Ford (D) 57.1% William D. Campbell (R) 42.9% William I. Traeger (R) 52.8% John M. Costello (D) 45.1% Errol O. Shour (W/I) 2.1%
California None (District 12 created)
California None (District 13 created) California None (District 14 created) California None (District 15 created) California Joe Crail 16 California None (District 17 created) California None (District 18 created) Republican 1926
Retiring John F. Dockweiler (D) 54.9% Clyde Woodworth (R) 45.1% Charles J. Colden (D) 62.2% A. E. Henning (R) 32.9% Ernest E. Debs (Liberty) 4.9% John H. Burke (D) 53.3% Robert Henderson (R) 37.4% William E. Hinshaw (I) 9.3%
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California None (District 19 created) California Philip D. Swing 20 Preceded by 1930
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Sam L. Collins (R) 51.0% B. Z. McKinney (D) 46.4% Horatio S. Hoard (Liberty) 2.6% Republican 1920 Retiring George Burnham (R) 50.3% Claude Chandler (D) 49.7% Succeeded by 1934
U.S. House elections
80.1-100% Republican 60.1-80% Republican
80.1-100% Democratic 60.1-80% Democratic 60.1-80% Progressive
House seats by party holding plurality in state
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6+ Republican gain 3-5 Republican gain 1-2 Republican gain no net change
6+ Democratic gain 3-5 Democratic gain 1-2 Democratic gain 3-5 Farmer-Labor gain
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