1922 United States elections

1922 United States elections
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Election day	November 7
Incumbent president	Warren G. Harding (Republican)
Next Congress	68th
Senate elections
Overall control	Republican hold
Seats contested	35 of 96 seats ; (32 Class 1 seats + 5 special elections)
Net seat change	Democratic +6
	1922 Senate election results Democratic gain Democratic hold; Republican gain Republican hold; Farmer-Labor gain
House elections
Overall control	Republican hold
Seats contested	All 435 voting seats
Net seat change	Democratic +76
	1922 House of Representatives election results
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested	33
Net seat change	Democratic +12
	1922 gubernatorial election results Democratic gain Democratic hold; Republican hold

The 1922 United States elections were held on November 7, 1922. The election took place during Republican President Warren G. Harding's term. The Republican Party lost seats in both chambers of Congress, but retained their majority in the House and Senate. In the House, the Republicans lost seventy-seven seats to the Democratic Party. The Republicans also lost seven seats in the U.S. Senate, six to the Democrats and one to the Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party.^[2]

The election is notable in that no redistricting occurred despite the completion of the 1920 United States census, as Congress failed to pass a redistricting bill. This is the only congressional election in which there was no redistricting after a census. The Apportionment Act of 1911 remained in effect until the Reapportionment Act of 1929.

The election was a victory for Harding's progressive opponents in the Republican Party, and helped lead to the Teapot Dome investigations and Robert M. La Follette's 1924 third party candidacy.^[3]

References

^ Two Class 1 Senate seats held both a regularly-scheduled election and a special election in 1922. These two seats are not double-counted for the total number of seats contested.
^ "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 1922" (PDF). U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^ Busch, Andrew (1999). Horses in Midstream. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 156–157.