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House elections for the 56th U.S. Congress

1898 United States House of Representatives elections

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June 6, September 6, September 12, and November 8, 1898^[a]

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All 357 seats in theUnited States House of Representatives
179 seats needed for a majority

	Majority party	Minority party

Leader	David Henderson	James Richardson
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader since	March 4, 1899	March 4, 1899
Leader's seat	Iowa 3rd	Tennessee 5th
Last election	206 seats	124 seats
Seats won	187^[1]	161^[1]
Seat change	19	37
Popular vote	5,305,230	4,828,592
Percentage	48.55%	44.18%
Swing	0.22pp	3.19pp

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Populist	Silver Republican
Last election	22	2
Seats won	5^[1]	2^[1]
Seat change	17
Popular vote	463,059	60,805
Percentage	4.24%	0.56%
Swing	2.62pp	0.46pp

	Fifth party	Sixth party

Party	Silver	Independent
Last election	1	1
Seats won	1^[1]	1^[b]
Seat change
Popular vote	5,766	96,537
Percentage	0.05%	0.88%
Swing		0.31pp

Speaker before election

Thomas Reed
Republican

ElectedSpeaker

David Henderson
Republican

The1898 United States House of Representatives elections were held for the most part on November 8, 1898, with Oregon, Maine, and Vermont holding theirs early in either June or September. They were held during the middle ofPresident William McKinley's first term. Elections were held for 357 seats of theUnited States House of Representatives, representing 45 states, to serve in the56th United States Congress. Special elections were also held throughout the year.

As in many midterm elections, the President'sRepublican Party lost seats, but was able to hold a majority over theDemocratic Party. ThePopulist Party also lost many seats, as their movement began to decline. This was likely because many Populists rallied behindWilliam Jennings Bryan's increasingly powerful branch of the Democratic Party, which built the rural economic issues advocated by Populists into their platform. As a result, the Democrats won a number of Western seats as well many in theMid-Atlantic.

State	Type	Total seats	Democratic		Populist		Republican		Silver/ Silver Rep.
State	Type	Total seats	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Alabama	District	9	8	1	0	1	1		0
Arkansas	District	6	6		0		0		0
California	District	7	1	1	0	2	6	3	0
Colorado	District	2	0		1		0		1^[d]
Connecticut	District	4	0		0		4		0
Delaware	At-large	1	0	1	0		1	1	0
Florida	District	2	2		0		0		0
Georgia	District	11	11		0		0		0
Idaho	At-large	1	0		0	1	0		1^[d]	1
Illinois	District	22	8	3	0		14	3	0
Indiana	District	13	4		0		9		0
Iowa	District	11	0		0		11		0
Kansas	District +at-large	8	0		1	5	7	5	0
Kentucky	District	11	9	2	0		2	2	0
Louisiana	District	6	6		0		0		0
Maine	District	4	0		0		4		0
Maryland	District	6	2	2	0		4	2	0
Massachusetts	District	13	3	2	0		10	2	0
Michigan	District	12	0	2	0		12	2	0
Minnesota	District	7	0		0		7		0
Mississippi	District	7	7		0		0		0
Missouri	District	15	12		0		3		0
Montana	At-large	1	1	1	0		0		0	1
Nebraska	District	6	1	1	3	1	2		0
Nevada	At-large	1	0		0		0		1
New Hampshire	District	2	0		0		2		0
New Jersey	District	8	2	2	0		6	2	0
New York	District	34	18	12	0		16	12	0
North Carolina	District	9	5	4	1^[e]	4	3	1	0
North Dakota	At-large	1	0		0		1		0
Ohio	District	21	6		0		15		0
Oregon	District	2	0		0		2		0
Pennsylvania	District +2 at-large	30	10	7	0		20	7	0
Rhode Island	District	2	0		0		2		0
South Carolina	District	7	7		0		0		0
South Dakota	At-large	2	0		0	2	2	2	0
Tennessee	District	10	8		0		2		0
Texas	District	13	12		0		1		0
Utah	At-large	1	1		0		0		0
Vermont	District	2	0		0		2		0
Virginia	District	10	10	4	0		0	4	0
Washington	At-large	2	0	1	0		2	2	0	1
West Virginia	District	4	1	1	0		3	1	0
Wisconsin	District	10	0		0		10		0
Wyoming	At-large	1	0	1	0		1	1	0
Total		357	161 45.1%	37	6^[e] 1.7%	16	187 52.4%	20	3^[f] 0.8%	1


Democratic			45.10%
Independent			0.28%
Populist			1.40%
Republican			52.38%
Silver Republican			0.56%
Silver			0.28%

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates}
Mississippi 2	William V. Sullivan	Democratic	1896	Incumbent resigned whenappointed U.S. Senator. New member elected July 5, 1898. Democratic hold.	▌YThomas Spight (Democratic) 46.64% ▌Z. M. Stephens (Democratic) 42.17% ▌Leland L. Pearsons (Democratic) 11.19%
Ohio 19
Pennsylvania 23
Virginia 2
Virginia 4
Mississippi 6	William F. Love	Democratic	1896	Incumbent died October 16, 1898. New member elected November 29, 1898. Democratic hold.	▌YFrank A. McLain (Democratic) 100%^[2]
Massachusetts 15	John Simpkins	Republican	1894	Incumbent died March 27, 1898. Republican hold.	▌YWilliam S. Greene (Republican) 63.04% ▌Charles S. Randall (Ind. Republican) 18.17% ▌Walter P. J. Skahan (Socialist Labor) 10.95% ▌Charles T. Luce (Democratic) 7.84%^[3]

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Delegate	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Arizona Territory at-large
New Mexico Territory at-large
Oklahoma Territory at-large	James Y. Callahan	Free Silver	1896	Incumbent retired. Republican gain.	▌YDennis T. Flynn (Republican)^[46] [data missing]

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Democratic	^[c]	Republican

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Alabama 1	George W. Taylor	Democratic	1896	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y George W. Taylor (Democratic) 84.7% ▌ Anthony N. Johnson (Colored Republican) 15.3%
Alabama 2	Jesse F. Stallings	Democratic	1892	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJesse F. Stallings (Democratic) 83.3% ▌ Frank Simmons (Republican) 14.8% ▌ J. A. Giddings (Prohibition) 1.9%
Alabama 3	Henry D. Clayton Jr.	Democratic	1896	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YHenry D. Clayton Jr. (Democratic) 96.6%
Alabama 4	William F. Aldrich	Republican	1894	Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic gain.	▌YGaston A. Robbins (Democratic) 54.9% ▌William F. Aldrich (Republican) 45.1%
Alabama 4	William F. Aldrich	Republican	1894	Election successfully contested. Incumbent re-elected and seated March 8, 1900.	▌YWilliam F. Aldrich (Republican) ▌Gaston A. Robbins (Democratic)
Alabama 5	Willis Brewer	Democratic	1896	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YWillis Brewer (Democratic) 77.8% ▌ Douglas Smith (Republican) 22.0%
Alabama 6	John H. Bankhead	Democratic	1886	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJohn H. Bankhead (Democratic) 69.8% ▌ Daniel N. Cooper (Republican) 29.3% ▌ William Turner (Colored Republican) 0.9%
Alabama 7	Milford W. Howard	Populist	1894	Incumbent retired. Democratic gain.	▌YJohn L. Burnett (Democratic) 44.4% ▌ Oliver Day Street (Populist) 32.2% ▌ Frank Lathrop (Republican) 23.0%
Alabama 8	Joseph Wheeler	Democratic	1884	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJoseph Wheeler (Democratic) 99.9%
Alabama 9	Oscar Underwood	Democratic	1894	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YOscar Underwood (Democratic) 85.5% ▌ John T. McEniry (Republican) 12.6% ▌ L. F. Schwartz (Colored Republican) 1.9%

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates^[5]
California 1	John All Barham	Republican	1894	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJohn All Barham (Republican) 61.1% ▌Emmett Seawell (Democratic/Populist) 38.9%
California 2	Marion De Vries	Democratic	1896	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YMarion De Vries (Democratic/Populist) 55.3% ▌Frank D. Ryan (Republican) 44.7%
California 3	Samuel G. Hilborn	Republican	1894	Incumbent lost renomination. Republican hold.	▌YVictor H. Metcalf (Republican) 57.3% ▌John Aubrey Jones (Democratic/Populist) 39.1% ▌Thomas F. Burns (Socialist Labor) 3.6%
California 4	James G. Maguire	Democratic	1892	Incumbent retired torun for California Governor. Republican gain.	▌YJulius Kahn (Republican) 50.0% ▌James H. Barry (Democratic/Populist) 44.1% ▌W. J. Martin (Socialist Labor) 3.7% ▌Joseph P. Kelly (Ind. Democratic) 2.2%
California 5	Eugene F. Loud	Republican	1890	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YEugene F. Loud (Republican) 51.8% ▌William Craig (Democratic/Populist) 44.3% ▌E. T. Kingsley (Socialist Labor) 3.9%
California 6	Charles A. Barlow	Populist	1900	Incumbent lost re-election. Republican gain.	▌YRussell J. Waters (Republican) 52.6% ▌Charles A. Barlow (Democratic/Populist) 44.9% ▌James T. Van Ransselear (Socialist Labor) 2.5%
California 7	Curtis H. Castle	Populist	1896	Incumbent lost re-election. Republican gain.	▌YJames C. Needham (Republican) 50.1% ▌Curtis H. Castle (Democratic/Populist) 49.9%

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Colorado 1	John F. Shafroth	Silver Republican	1894	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJohn F. Shafroth (Fusion) 67.6% ▌ Charles Hartsell (Republican) 29.1% ▌ Dayton Gilbert (Prohibition) 2.2%
Colorado 2	John C. Bell	Populist	1892	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJohn C. Bell (Fusion) 64.9% ▌ B. Clark Wheeler (Republican) 34.2%

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