1858 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1858 Midterm elections Democratic Party (US)James Buchanan (D) 36th Democratic hold 22 of 66 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican +5Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. Republican gain All 238 voting seats Republican +23 400px 1858–59 U.S. House of Representatives election#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#CA0120 Republican gain #F48882 Republican hold#666666 Independent gain #FFD700 Opposition gain #d7b7ef Know Nothing hold Elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President James Buchanan's term and marked the end of the transitional period between the Second Party System and the Third Party System.Economic Change and Political Realignment in Antebellum Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1989 113 3 347–395 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20092358 The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 113, no. 3, 1989, pp. 347–95. JSTOR 20092358 14 September 2022 Members of the 36th United States Congress were chosen in this election. In the first election since the Supreme Court decided Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Republican Party won a plurality in the House, taking control of a chamber of Congress for the first time in the party's history. Although Democrats lost control of the House, they retained their majority in the Senate. In the House, Democrats suffered a major defeat, losing seats to Republicans and a group of southern party members who opposed secession, running on the Opposition Party ticket. Although no party won a majority, Republicans won a plurality of seats.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 Republican William Pennington won election as Speaker of the House, becoming the first Republican Speaker. In the Senate, Republicans picked up several seats, but Democrats retained a commanding majority. Nonetheless the gains were a major win for Republicans who had benefitted from the fallout of the Dred Scott ruling.Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/partydiv.htm United States Senate 25 June 2014 See also 1858–59 United States House of Representatives elections 1858–59 United States Senate elections References Category:1858 elections in the United States 1858 Category:United States midterm elections