1874 United States elections

none February 2026 January 2025 1874 Midterm elections November 3 Republican Party (US)Ulysses S. Grant (R) 44th 25 of 74 seatsNot counting special elections. Republican hold Democratic +9Congressional seat gain figures only reflect the results of the regularly-scheduled elections, and do not take special elections into account. 400px Results:#0671B0 Democratic gain #92C5DE Democratic hold#F48882 Republican hold #73f440ff Anti-Monopoly gain All 293 voting seats Democratic gain Democratic +92 400px Results:#92C5DE Democratic hold #0671B0 Democratic gain#F48882 Republican hold #CA0120 Republican gain#666666 Independent hold Elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Ulysses S. Grant's second term, during the Third Party System. Members of the 44th United States Congress were chosen in this election. The election took place during the Reconstruction Era, and many Southerners were disfranchised. Colorado joined the union during the 44th Congress. The Democrats took control of a chamber of Congress for the first time since 1859, winning a huge number of seats from the House Republicans. However, the Republicans retained a majority in the Senate. The election marked the first occurrence of the six-year itch phenomenon, in which a president's party lost many Congressional seats during the president's second mid-term election. The Panic of 1873, a series of scandals, and an unpopular Congressional pay raise all damaged the Republican Party's brand. With the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, the importance of the parties' roles in the Civil War also receded in the minds of many. Though Republicans won governorships in areas of the Northern United States (such as Pennsylvania), the election increased Democratic power in the Southern United States. The Democrats later dominated the region as the Solid South after the end of Reconstruction.Witcover Jules Party of the People https://archive.org/details/partyofpeoplehis00witc registration 2003 Random House 244–245 9780375507427 In the House, Democrats won massive gains when the Republicans lost a total of 92 seats (the third-largest swing in the history of the House, and the second-largest House loss by the Republican Party), turning a dominant Republican majority into a similarly dominant Democratic majority.Party Divisions of the House of Representatives http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ United States House of Representatives 25 June 2014 In the Senate, Democrats picked up several seats, but Republicans retained a commanding majority.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 1874–75 United States House of Representatives elections 1874–75 United States Senate elections References Category:1874 elections in the United States 1874 Category:United States midterm elections