1916 United States House of Representatives elections

← 1914 November 7, 1916[a] 1918 →
All 435 seats in theUnited States House of Representatives 218 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader James Mann Champ Clark Party Republican Democratic Leader since March 4, 1911 March 4, 1909 Leader's seat Illinois 2nd Missouri 9th Last election 196 seats 230 seats Seats won 215[b] 214[c] Seat change 19 16 Popular vote 8,052,247 7,641,274 Percentage 48.09% 45.64% Swing 5.47pp 3.68pp   Third party Fourth party   Party Progressive Socialist Last election 6 seats 1 seat Seats won 3 1 Seat change 3 Popular vote 131,103[d] 604,304 Percentage 0.78% 3.61% Swing 7.22pp 0.93pp   Fifth party Sixth party   Party Prohibition Independent Last election 1 seat 1 seat Seats won 1 1[e] Seat change Popular vote 248,451 65,586 Percentage 1.48% 0.39% Swing 0.20pp 0.16pp
Results:      Democratic hold     Democratic gain      Republican hold     Republican gain      Progressive hold     Progressive gain      Prohibition hold     Socialist hold
Speaker before election Champ Clark Democratic ElectedSpeaker Champ Clark Democratic

1916 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for theUnited States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the65th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 7, 1916, while Maine held theirs on September 11. They coincided with there-election of PresidentWoodrow Wilson.

Wilson eked out a narrow re-election, but hisDemocratic Party lost seats to theRepublican Party. Wilson's hybrid approach, which injected a progressive element into Democratic policies, had proved to be dissatisfying to much of the nation. International affairs also became important in the traditionallynon-interventionist United States, as voters attempted to determine which party would be best served to keep the nation from entering theGreat War.

Republicans won aplurality of seats in the 1916 election. However, when the 65th Congress convened in April 1917, the Democrats narrowly maintained control of the House, forming analliance withthird-party (Progressive andSocialist) members. Not since the34th Congress (1855–1857) had the party with the most seats not been part of the ruling government. This Congress is the last example to date of a type of coalition holding power in the House, rather than a single party winning amajority of seats. This was also the last time that no party in the house held an overall majority.

Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, became the first woman ever elected to congress.

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State	Type	Total seats	Democratic		Progressive		Republican		Others
			Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Alabama	District[g]	10	10		0		0		0
Arizona	At-large	1	1		0		0		0
Arkansas	District	7	7		0		0		0
California	District	11	4	1	1	1	5	1	1[h]	1
Colorado	District	4	3		0		1		0
Connecticut	District	5	1	1	0		4	1	0
Delaware	At-large	1	1	1	0		0	1	0
Florida	District	4	4		0		0		0
Georgia	District	12	12		0		0		0
Idaho	At-large	2	0		0		2		0
Illinois	District +2 at-large	27	6	4	0	1	21	5	0
Indiana	District	13	4	7	0		9	7	0
Iowa	District	11	0	1	0		11	1	0
Kansas	District	8	5	1	0		3	1	0
Kentucky	District	11	9		0		2		0
Louisiana	District	8	7	1	1	1	0		0
Maine[i]	District	4	0	1	0		4	1	0
Maryland	District	6	4	1	0		2	1	0
Massachusetts	District	16	4		0		12		0
Michigan	District	13	1	1	0		12	1	0
Minnesota	District	10	1		0	1	9	1	0
Mississippi	District	8	8		0		0		0
Missouri	District	16	14		0		2		0
Montana	At-large	2	1	1	0		1	1	0
Nebraska	District	6	3		0		3		0
Nevada	At-large	1	0		0		1		0
New Hampshire	District	2	0	2	0		2	2	0
New Jersey	District	12	3	1	0		9	1	0
New Mexico	At-large	1	1	1	0		0	1	0
New York	District	43	16	3	0	1	26	4	1[j]
North Carolina	District	10	10	1	0		0	1	0
North Dakota	District	3	0		0		3		0
Ohio	District	22	13	4	0		9	4	0
Oklahoma	District	8	6	1	0		2	1	0
Oregon	District	3	0		0		3		0
Pennsylvania	District +4 at-large	36	6		1	1	29	1	0
Rhode Island	District	3	1		0		2		0
South Carolina	District	7	7		0		0		0
South Dakota	District	3	1		0		2		0
Tennessee	District	10	8		0		2		0
Texas	District +2 at-large	18	18		0		0		0
Utah	District	2	2	1	0		0	1	0
Vermont	District	2	0		0		2		0
Virginia	District	10	9		0		1		0
Washington	District	5	1	1	0	2	4	1	0
West Virginia	District[g]	6	2	1	0		4	1	0
Wisconsin	District	11	0	3	0		11	3	0
Wyoming	At-large	1	0		0		1		0
Total		435	214 49.2%	16	3 0.7%	2	216[k] 49.7%	19	2[l] 0.5%	1

The Democrats retained control of the House by forming a coalition with the three Progressive members and the single Socialist member, combining to form a razor-thin majority of 218 Representatives.

Maine held its election early, on September 11, 1916. There had previously been multiple states with earlier elections, but between1914 and1958, Maine was alone in holding early elections.

There were special elections in 1916 to the64th United States Congress.

Special elections are sorted by date then district.

1916 Indiana's 5th congressional district election

← 1914 November 07, 1916 1918 →

Nominee Everett Sanders Richard W. Moss Eugene V. Debs Party Republican Democratic Socialist Popular vote 20,977 20,270 8,866 Percentage 40.62% 39.25% 17.17%

Sanders:     40–50%     50–60% Moss:     30–40%     40–50% Results by county

U.S. Representative before election Richard W. Moss Democratic Elected U.S. Representative Everett Sanders Republican

This was the last time Montana used an at-large district until its representation was reduced to onein 1992. This was also the first time a woman was elected to Congress.