United States House of Representatives elections, 1832

United States House of Representatives elections, 1832

July 2, 1832 - October 7, 1833

All 240 seats to the United States House of Representatives 121 seats needed for a majority   Majority party Minority party   Leader Andrew Stevenson Lewis Williams Party Democratic National Republican Leader's seat Virginia-11th North Carolina-13th Last election 126 seats 66 seats Seats won 143[Note 1] 63[Note 1] Seat change 17 3   Third party Fourth party   Leader Harmar Denny John K. Griffin Party Anti-Masonic Nullifier Leader's seat Pennsylvania-22nd South Carolina-9th Last election 17 seats 4 seats Seats won 25 9 Seat change 8 5

Speaker before election Andrew Stevenson Jacksonian Elected Speaker Andrew Stevenson Democratic

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in 1832. They were held concurrently with the 1832 presidential election, in which Jacksonian Andrew Jackson was reelected.

The Jacksonians ^{[Note 2]} gained 17 seats, picking up several new seats in districts that were created following the 1830 Census; the rival Anti-Jacksonian 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.^{[Note 3]}

The third party Anti-Masonic Party, based on anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led state's 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.

Election summaries

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

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143	9	25	63
Jacksonian	N	AM	Anti-Jacksonian

State	Type	Date	Total seats		Jacksonian	Anti-Jacksonian	Anti-Masonic	Nullifier
			Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Delaware	At-large	November 13, 1832	1		0		1		0		0
Georgia	At-large	October 1, 1832	9	2	9	2	0		0		0
Illinois	District[Note 4] (3)	August 6, 1832	3	2	3	2	0		0		0
Louisiana[Note 5]	District (3)	July 2–4, 1832	3		0		3		0		0
Mississippi	At-large	August 6–7, 1832	2	1	2	1	0		0		0
Missouri[Note 6]	At-large	August 6, 1832 August 5, 1833	2	1	0		2	1	0		0
New Jersey	At-large	November 6, 1832	6		6	6	0	6	0		0
New York	District (33[Note 7])	November 5–7, 1832	40	6	32	9	0	3	8		0
Ohio	District (19)	October 9, 1832	19	5	11	5	6	2	2	2	0
Pennsylvania	District (25[Note 8])	October 9, 1832	28	2	14	3	4	2	10	3	0
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Alabama	District (5)	August 5, 1833	5	2	4	1	0		0		1	1
Connecticut	At-large	April 11, 1833	6		0		6		0		0
Indiana	District (7)	August 5, 1833	7	4	6	3	1	1	0		0
Kentucky	District (13)	August 5, 1833	13	1	4	4	9	5	0		0
Maine	District (8)	September 9, 1833	8	1	7	1	1		0		0
Maryland	District (8)	October 7, 1833	8	1	6	2	2	3	0		0
Massachusetts	District (12)	April 1, 1833	12	1	1	1	9	4	2	2	0
New Hampshire	At-large	March 12, 1833	5	1	5	1	0		0		0
North Carolina	District (13)	August 8, 1833	13		6	5	7	5	0		0
Rhode Island	At-large	August 27, 1833	2		0		1	1	1	1	0
South Carolina	District (9)	September 2–3, 1833	9		1	4	0		0		8	4
Tennessee	District (13)	August 1–2, 1833	13	4	12	4	1		0		0
Vermont	District (5)	January 1, 1833	5		0		3		2		0
Virginia	District (21)	April, 1833	21	1	14	3	7	2	0		0
Total			240	27	143 59.6%	17	63 26.3%	3	25 10.4%	8	9 3.8%	5

House seats
Jacksonian			59.58%
Anti-Jacksonian			26.25%
Anti-Masonic			10.42%
Nullifier			3.75%

Complete returns

Connecticut

• Senator Samuel A. Foot lost re-election to the U.S. Senate. He was then subsequently elected to the U.S. House to represent one of the six seats from Connecticut's at-large congressional district.
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Pennsylvania

Following the reapportionment resulting from the Fifth Census, Pennsylvania gained two representatives, increasing from 26 to 28, and was redistricted into 25 districts, two of which were plural districts

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates[2][Note 9]
Pennsylvania 1	Joel B. Sutherland	Jacksonian	1826	Re-elected	Joel B. Sutherland (J) 50.0% James Gowen (AJ) 40.5% Samuel B. Davis (J) 9.5%
Pennsylvania 2 Plural district with 2 seats	Henry Horn	Jacksonian	1830	Lost re-election Anti-Jacksonian gain	Horace Binney (AJ) 62.9% James Harper (AJ) 59.9% Benjamin Richards (J) 39.8% Henry Horn (J) 37.4%
	None (Seat created)			New seat Anti-Jacksonian gain
Pennsylvania 3	John G. Watmough	Anti-Jacksonian	1830	Re-elected	John G. Watmough (AJ) 53.7% Jesse R. Burden (J) 34.4% Mahon M. Lewis (J) 11.9%
Pennsylvania 4 Plural district with 3 seats	William Hiester	Anti-Masonic	1830	Re-elected	William Hiester (AM) 58.5% David Potts, Jr. (AM) 58.4%% Edward Darlington (AM) 58.3% Frederick Hambright (J) 41.7% John Morgan (J) 41.6% Henry Myers (J) 41.5%
	Joshua Evans, Jr.	Jacksonian	1828	Retired Anti-Masonic gain
	David Potts, Jr.	Anti-Masonic	1830	Re-elected
Pennsylvania 5	Joel K. Mann	Jacksonian	1830	Re-elected	Joel K. Mann (J) 54.5% Benjamin Reiff (AM) 45.5%
Pennsylvania 6	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Robert Ramsey (J) 43.9% Mathias Morris (AJ) 38.6% Thomas Ross (AM) 17.5%
Pennsylvania 7	Peter Ihrie, Jr. Redistricted from the 8th district	Jacksonian	1829 (special)	Lost re-election Jacksonian hold	David D. Wagener (J) 58.3% Peter Ihrie, Jr. (AM[Note 10]) 34.7% Owen Rice 6.9%
Pennsylvania 8	Henry King Redistricted from the 7th district	Jacksonian	1830	Re-elected	Henry King (J) 54.3% William Audenreid (AM) 45.7%
Pennsylvania 9	Henry A. P. Muhlenberg Redistricted from the 7th district	Jacksonian	1828	Re-elected	Henry A. P. Muhlenberg (J) 57.1% David Hollenstein (AM) 42.9%
Pennsylvania 10	John C. Bucher Redistricted from the 6th district	Jacksonian	1830	Lost re-election Anti-Masonic gain	William Clark (AM) 60.7% John C. Bucher (J) 39.3%
Pennsylvania 11	Adam King Redistricted from the 10th district	Jacksonian	1826	Lost re-election Anti-Masonic gain	Charles A. Barnitz (AM) 51.9% Adam King (J) 48.1%
Pennsylvania 12	Thomas H. Crawford Redistricted from the 11th district	Jacksonian	1828	Lost re-election Anti-Masonic gain	George Chambers (AM) 55.6% Thomas H. Crawford (J) 44.4%
Pennsylvania 13	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Jesse Miller (J) 53.8% Thomas Whiteside (AM) 46.2%
Pennsylvania 14	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Joseph Henderson (J) 52.9% James Milliken (AM) 47.1%
Pennsylvania 15	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Andrew Beaumont (J) 34.8% Thomas W. Miner (AM/AJ) 33.3% James McClintock (Ind. Jack.) 31.9%
Pennsylvania 16	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Joseph B. Anthony (J) 58.1% Ner Middleswarth (AM) 41.9%
Pennsylvania 17	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	John Laporte (J) 60.3% Simon Kinney (AM) 39.7%
Pennsylvania 18	George Burd Redistricted from the 13th district	Anti-Jacksonian	1830	Re-elected	George Burd (AJ) 52.0% David Mann (AM) 48.0%
Pennsylvania 19	Richard Coulter Redistricted from the 17th district	Jacksonian	1826	Re-elected	Richard Coulter (J) 100%
Pennsylvania 20	Andrew Stewart Redistricted from the 14th district	Anti-Masonic	1820 1830	Re-elected	Andrew Stewart (AM) 51.8% William G. Hawkins (J) 48.8%
Pennsylvania 21	Thomas M. T. McKennan Redistricted from the 15th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Re-elected	Thomas M. T. McKennan (AM) 56.1% William McCreery (J) 43.9%
Pennsylvania 22	Harmar Denny Redistricted from the 16th district	Anti-Masonic	1829 (special)	Re-elected	Harmar Denny (AM) 61.2% William Robinson (J) 38.8%
Pennsylvania 23	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	Samuel S. Harrison (J) 61.0% William Ayers (AM) 39.0%
Pennsylvania 24	John Banks Redistricted from the 18th district	Anti-Masonic	1830	Re-elected	John Banks (AM) 51.1% Samuel Power (J) 48.9%
Pennsylvania 25	None (District created)			New seat Jacksonian gain	John Galbraith (J) 55.2% Thomas H. Sill (AM) 44.8%

In the 1st district, Joel B. Sutherland (J) resigned sometime after the election to accept a judgeship, but then subsequently resigned that position and ran in the ensuing special election, winning the seat back.

See also

• List of United States House of Representatives elections, 1824–54
• United States Senate elections, 1832
• United States presidential election, 1832
• 23rd United States Congress

Notes

1. There are discrepancies among the sources, e.g. Dubin, pg. 108 (and Moore, pg. 956-959) vs. Martis, pg. 92 (and "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, House of United States House of Representatives.): Dubin lists 145 Democrats (incl. 1 Independent Democrat), 60 National Republicans, 24 Anti-Masons, 7 Southern Rights or Nullifiers, and 1 "Unionist", while the latter sources list 143 Jacksonians or Democrats, 63 Anti-Jacksonians or National Republicans, 25 Anti-Masons, and 9 Nullifiers. Figures used here defer to Martis and the party figures from the Historian of the House.
2. By this point, Jacksonians also started to be known as Democrats.
3. By this point, Anti-Jacksonians were also known as National Republicans.
4. Changed from at-large
5. While Dubin (pg. 103) and Moore (pg. 956) indicate that Philemon Thomas of LA-02 was a Democrat/Jeffersonian, Martis (pg. 92) lists Philemon Thomas as a National Republican/Anti-Jeffersonian – figures listed here defer to Martis in this case.
6. Missouri held an election in 1832 for the first seat in its at-large district, and again in 1833 for the second seat in that district.
7. Includes 5 plural districts
8. Includes 3 plural districts
9. For plural districts, percent is based on assumption that each voter cast as many votes as there are seats
10. Changed parties

References

1. 4 Stat. 516
2. Wilkes University Elections Statistics Project

Bibliography

• Dubin, Michael J. (March 1, 1998). United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: The Official Results of the Elections of the 1st Through 105th Congresses. McFarland and Company. ISBN 978-0786402830.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (January 1, 1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989. Macmillan Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0029201701.
• Moore, John L., ed. (1994). Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (Third ed.). Congressional Quarterly Inc. ISBN 978-0871879967.
• "Party Divisions of the House of Representatives* 1789–Present". Office of the Historian, House of United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 21, 2015.

External links

• Office of the Historian (Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)