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1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections

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The 1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1866, and September 6, 1867. They occurred during President Andrew Johnson's term just one year after the American Civil War ended when the Union defeated the Confederacy. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives. Members were elected before or after the first session of the 40th United States Congress convened on March 4, 1867, including the at-large seat from the new state of Nebraska. Ten secessionist states still had not yet been readmitted, and therefore were not seated.

1866–67 United States House of Representatives elections
←  1864 & 1865 June 4, 1866 – September 6, 1867[a] 1868 & 1869 →
All 224[b] seats in the United States House of Representatives
113 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Schuyler Colfax Samuel Marshall
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat Indiana 9th Illinois 11th
Last election 150 seats[c] 33 seats
Seats won 173 47
Seat change Increase 23 Increase 14
Popular vote 2,611,309 1,919,507
Percentage 55.36% 40.69%
Swing Increase 1.89%[d] Decrease 1.28%
  Third party Fourth party
 
Party Conservative Independent
Last election 5 seats 1 seat
Seats won 2 2[e]
Seat change Decrease 3 Increase 1
Popular vote 94,455 83,205
Percentage 2.00% 1.76%
Swing Decrease 0.19% Increase 0.70%
House election results map. Red represents seats won by the Republicans and blue denotes those won by the Democrats.
Speaker before election

Schuyler Colfax
Republican

Elected Speaker

Schuyler Colfax
Republican

The 1866 elections were a decisive event in the early Reconstruction era, in which President Johnson faced off against the Radical Republicans in a bitter dispute over whether Reconstruction should be lenient or harsh toward the vanquished white South.

Most of the congressmen from the former Confederate states were either prevented from leaving the state or were arrested on the way to the capital. A Congress consisting of mostly Radical Republicans sat early in the Capitol and aside from the delegation from Tennessee who were allowed in, the few Southern Congressmen who arrived were not seated.

Background

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Johnson, a War Democrat, had been elected Vice President in the 1864 presidential election as the running mate of Abraham Lincoln, a Republican. (The Republicans had chosen not to re-nominate Hannibal Hamlin for a second term as vice president).

Lincoln and Johnson ran together under the banner of the National Union Party, which brought together Republicans (with the exception of some hard-line abolitionist Radical Republicans who backed John C. Frémont, who eventually dropped out of the race after brokering a deal with Lincoln) and the War Democrats (the minority of Democrats who backed Lincoln's prosecution of the war, as opposed to the Peace Democrats, or Copperheads, who favored a negotiated settlement with the Confederates).

After the assassination of Lincoln, Johnson became president. He immediately became embroiled in a dispute with the Radical Republicans over the conditions of Reconstruction; Johnson favored a lenient Reconstruction, while Radical Republicans wanted to continue the military occupation of the South and force Southern states to give freedmen (the newly freed slaves) civil rights (and the right to vote).

Campaign and results

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Johnson stumped the country in a public speaking tour known as the Swing Around the Circle; he generally supported Democrats but his speeches were poorly received.

The Republicans won in a landslide, capturing enough seats to override Johnson's vetoes. Only the border states of Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky voted for Democrats. Recently Reconstructed Tennessee sent a Republican delegation. The other 10 ex-Confederate states did not vote. As a percentage of the total number of seats available in the House of Representatives, the Republican majority attained in the election of 1866 has never been exceeded in any subsequent Congress. The Democratic Party was able to achieve similar success only in the political environment of the era of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

Election summaries

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Seven secessionist states were readmitted during this Congress, filling 32 vacancies, but are not included in this table if they were not elected within 1866 through 1867.[1]

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44 4 147
Democratic [f] Republican
State Type Date Total
seats 		Democratic Conservative Republican Others
Seats Change Seats Change Seats Change Seats Change
Oregon At-large June 4, 1866 1 0   0   1   0  
Vermont Districts Sep 4, 1866 3 0   0   3   0  
Maine Districts Sep 10, 1866 5 0   0   5   0  
Indiana Districts Oct 9, 1866 11 3   1 0   8   1 0  
Iowa Districts Oct 9, 1866 6 0   0   6   0  
Nebraska At-large Oct 9, 1866 1 0   0   1   0  
Ohio Districts Oct 9, 1866 19 2   0   17   0  
Pennsylvania Districts Oct 9, 1866 24 6   3 0   18   3 0  
West Virginia Districts Oct 25, 1866 3 0   0   3   3 0   3[g]
Delaware At-large Nov 6, 1866
(Election Day)[h] 		1 1   0   0   0  
Illinois District +
1 at-large 		14 3   0   11   0  
Kansas At-large 1 0   0   1   0  
Maryland Districts 5 3   1 1   1 1   1 0   3[g]
Massachusetts Districts 10 0   0   10   0  
Michigan Districts 6 0   0   6   0  
Minnesota Districts 2 0   0   2   0  
Missouri Districts 9 1   0   8   0  
Nevada At-large 1 0   0   1   0  
New Jersey Districts 5 2   1 0   3   1 0  
New York Districts 31 10   1 0   21[e]   1 0  
Wisconsin Districts 6 1   0   5   0  
Late elections (after the March 4, 1867 beginning of Congress)
New Hampshire Districts Mar 12, 1867 3 0   0   3   0  
Connecticut Districts Apr 1, 1867 4 3   3 0   1   3 0  
Rhode Island Districts Apr 3, 1867 2 0   0   2   0  
Kentucky Districts May 4, 1867 9[i] 7   2 0   1   1 0   4[j]
Tennessee Districts Aug 3, 1867 8 0   0   8   8 0   8[k]
California Districts Sep 6, 1867 3 2   2 0   1   2 0  
Secessionist states not yet readmitted
Alabama Districts — 6 0   0   0   0  
Arkansas Districts — 3 0   0   0   0  
Florida At-large — 1 0   0   0   0  
Georgia Districts — 7 0   0   0   0  
Louisiana Districts — 5 0   0   0   0  
Mississippi Districts — 5 0   0   0   0  
North Carolina Districts — 7 0   0   0   0  
South Carolina Districts — 4 0   0   0   0  
Texas Districts — 4 0   0   0   0  
Virginia Districts — 8 0   0   0   0  
Total[b] 193[l] 44
22.8% 		  4 1
0.5% 		  1 147[e]
76.2% 		  12 0
0.0% 		  18[m]
 
Results shaded according to winning candidate's share of vote. Data from Electing the House of Representatives by the University of Richmond
Popular vote
Republican
 
 55.36%
Democratic
 
 40.69%
Conservative
 
 2.00%
Independent
 
 1.76%
Others
 
 0.19%
House seats
Republican
 
 77.23%
Democratic
 
 20.98%
Conservative
 
 0.89%
Independent
 
 0.89%

The party affiliations of the 4 Representatives elected in Texas's rejected elections are unknown.

Special elections

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See also: List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives

39th Congress

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District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Kentucky 5 Lovell Rousseau Unconditional
Unionist 		1865 Incumbent resigned July 21, 1866 following his assault of Josiah Grinnell.
Incumbent re-elected September 15, 1866.
Unconditional Unionist hold.
Kentucky 6 Green C. Smith Unconditional
Unionist 		1861 Incumbent resigned July 13, 1866 to become Governor of Montana Territory.
New member elected September 15, 1866.
Democratic gain.
Kentucky 3 Henry Grider Democratic 1861 Incumbent died September 7, 1866.
New member elected October 6, 1866.
Democratic hold.
  • ▌ Y Elijah Hise (Democratic) 74.3%
  • ▌P. B. Hawkins (National Union) 25.7%[4]
New York 3 James Humphrey Republican 1864 Incumbent died June 16, 1866.
New member elected November 6, 1866.
Democratic gain.

40th Congress

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District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Kentucky 3 Elijah Hise Democratic 1866 (special) Incumbent died May 6, 1867.
New member elected August 5, 1867.
Democratic hold.
  • ▌ Y Jacob Golladay (Democratic) 76.6%
  • ▌J. R. Curd (Republican) 13.6%
  • ▌W. T. Jackman (Independent) 9.8%[6]
Ohio 2 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 1864 Incumbent resigned July 20, 1867 to run for Governor of Ohio.
New member elected October 8, 1867.
Independent Republican gain.
Pennsylvania 12 Charles Denison Democratic 1862 Incumbent died June 27, 1867.
New member elected October 8, 1867.
Democratic hold.
Missouri 3 Thomas E. Noell Democratic 1864 Incumbent died October 3, 1867.
New member elected November 5, 1867.
Democratic hold.
New York 21 Roscoe Conkling Republican 1864 Incumbent resigned March 3, 1867 when elected U.S. senator.
New member elected November 5, 1867.
Republican hold.

California

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California elections
 
← 1864 September 6, 1867 1868 →
3 seats
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party Democratic Republican
Last election 0 3
Seats won 2 1
Seat change   2   2
Popular vote 48,346 44,436
Percentage 52.1% 47.9%
 
  Democratic gain
  Republican hold
Main article: 1867 United States House of Representatives elections in California
See also: List of United States representatives from California
District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
California 1 Donald C. McRuer Republican 1864 Incumbent retired.
Democratic gain.
California 2 William Higby Republican 1863 Incumbent re-elected.
California 3 John Bidwell Republican 1864 Incumbent retired.
Democratic gain.

Colorado Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

Connecticut

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See also: List of United States representatives from Connecticut
District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates[11]
Connecticut 1 Henry C. Deming Republican 1863 Incumbent lost re-election.
Democratic gain.
Connecticut 2 Samuel L. Warner Republican 1861 Incumbent retired.
Democratic gain.
Connecticut 3 Augustus Brandegee Republican 1863 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
Connecticut 4 John Henry Hubbard Republican 1863 Incumbent lost renomination.
Democratic gain.

Dakota Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

Delaware

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See also: List of United States representatives from Delaware

Idaho Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

Illinois

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See also: List of United States representatives from Illinois

Indiana

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See also: List of United States representatives from Indiana

Iowa

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See also: List of United States representatives from Iowa

Kansas

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See also: List of United States representatives from Kansas

Kentucky

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See also: List of United States representatives from Kentucky

Maine

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See also: List of United States representatives from Maine

Maryland

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See also: List of United States representatives from Maryland

Massachusetts

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See also: List of United States representatives from Massachusetts
District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Massachusetts 1 Thomas D. Eliot Republican 1858 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y Thomas D. Eliot (Republican) 84.17%
  • ▌Matthias Elias (Democratic) 15.83%
Massachusetts 2 Oakes Ames Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y Oakes Ames (Republican) 79.60%
  • ▌Abijah M. Ide (Democratic) 20.40%
Massachusetts 3 Alexander H. Rice Republican 1858 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
Massachusetts 4 Samuel Hooper Republican 1861 (special) Incumbent re-elected.
Massachusetts 5 John B. Alley Republican 1858 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
  • ▌ Y Benjamin Butler (Republican) 76.07%
  • ▌William D. Northend (Democratic) 23.93%
Massachusetts 6 Nathaniel P. Banks Republican 1865 (special) Incumbent re-elected.
Massachusetts 7 George S. Boutwell Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Massachusetts 8 John D. Baldwin Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y John D. Baldwin (Republican) 82.62%
  • ▌William A. Williams (Democratic) 17.38%
Massachusetts 9 William B. Washburn Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Massachusetts 10 Henry L. Dawes Republican 1856 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y Henry L. Dawes (Republican) 66.00%
  • ▌Abijah W. Chapin (Democratic) 34.00%

Michigan

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See also: List of United States representatives from Michigan

Minnesota

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See also: List of United States representatives from Minnesota

Missouri

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See also: List of United States representatives from Missouri

Montana Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

Nebraska

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See also: List of United States representatives from Nebraska

There were two elections in the new state of Nebraska in 1866: on June 6 for the remainder of the current term, and October 9 for the next term.

39th Congress

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District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Nebraska at-large New state New seat.
Republican gain.
New member seated March 2, 1867.

40th Congress

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District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Nebraska at-large Turner M. Marquett Republican 1866 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.

Nevada

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See also: List of United States representatives from Nevada

New Hampshire

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See also: List of United States representatives from New Hampshire

New Jersey

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See also: List of United States representatives from New Jersey

New Mexico Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

New York

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See also: List of United States representatives from New York

Ohio

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See also: List of United States representatives from Ohio

Democrats gained one seat this election in Ohio. It was later contested and awarded to the Republican for a net gain of zero.

District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates[14]
Ohio 1 Benjamin Eggleston Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 2 Rutherford B. Hayes Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 3 Robert C. Schenck Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 4 William Lawrence Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 5 Francis C. Le Blond Democratic 1862 Incumbent retired.
Democratic hold.
Ohio 6 Reader W. Clarke Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 7 Samuel Shellabarger Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 8 James Randolph Hubbell Republican 1864 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
Ohio 9 Ralph P. Buckland Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y Ralph P. Buckland (Republican) 52.2%
  • ▌Thomas P. Finefrock (Democratic) 47.8%
Ohio 10 James M. Ashley Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 11 Hezekiah S. Bundy Republican 1864 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
Ohio 12 William E. Finck Democratic 1862 Incumbent retired.
Democratic hold.
Ohio 13 Columbus Delano Republican 1864 Incumbent lost re-election
Democratic gain.[n]
Ohio 14 Martin Welker Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y Martin Welker (Republican) 53.4%
  • ▌James B. Young (Democratic) 46.6%
Ohio 15 Tobias A. Plants Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 16 John Bingham Republican 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
  • ▌ Y John Bingham (Republican) 52.8%
  • ▌Charles H. Mitchner (Democratic) 47.2%
Ohio 17 Ephraim R. Eckley Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 18 Rufus P. Spalding Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Ohio 19 James A. Garfield Republican 1862 Incumbent re-elected.

Oregon

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See also: List of United States representatives from Oregon

Pennsylvania

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See also: List of United States representatives from Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

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See also: List of United States representatives from Rhode Island

Tennessee

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See also: List of United States representatives from Tennessee

Elections held late, on August 1, 1867.

District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
Tennessee 1 Nathaniel G. Taylor Unionist 1865 Incumbent retired.
Republican gain.
  • ▌ Y Roderick R. Butler (Republican) 86.82%
  • ▌James White (Conservative) 12.85%
  • ▌James Powell (Republican) 0.33%[15]
Tennessee 2 Horace Maynard Unionist 1865 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 3 William B. Stokes Unionist 1865 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 4 Edmund Cooper Unionist 1865 Incumbent lost re-election as a Conservative.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 5 William B. Campbell Unionist 1865 Incumbent retired.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 6 Samuel M. Arnell Unionist 1865 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 7 Isaac R. Hawkins Unionist 1865 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Republican gain.
Tennessee 8 John W. Leftwich Unionist 1865 Incumbent lost re-election as a Conservative.
Republican gain.

Utah Territory

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See non-voting delegates, below.

Vermont

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See also: List of United States representatives from Vermont
District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates[23]
Vermont 1 Frederick E. Woodbridge Republican 1863 Incumbent re-elected.
Vermont 2 Justin S. Morrill Republican 1854 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
  • ▌ Y Luke P. Poland (Republican) 72.2%
  • ▌Charles M. Chase (Democratic) 26.2%
Others
Vermont 3 Portus Baxter Republican 1860 Incumbent lost re-election.
Republican hold.
First ballot
  • ▌Portus Baxter (Republican) 46.8%
  • ▌Romeo H. Hoyt (Republican) 28.8%
  • ▌Waldo Brigham (Democratic) 21.7%
  • ▌J. S. Adams (Republican) 1.0%
  • ▌J. H. Woodward (Republican) 0.6%
  • ▌O. G. Wheeler (Republican) 0.5%
Second ballot

Washington Territory

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West Virginia

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See also: List of United States representatives from West Virginia
District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates
West Virginia 1 Chester D. Hubbard Unconditional
Unionist 		1864 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Republican gain.
West Virginia 2 George R. Latham Unconditional
Unionist 		1864 Incumbent retired.
Republican gain.
West Virginia 3 Kellian Whaley Unconditional
Unionist 		1863 Incumbent retired.
Republican gain.

Wisconsin

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See also: List of United States representatives from Wisconsin

Wisconsin elected six members of congress on Election Day, November 4, 1866.

District Incumbent This race
Member Party First elected Results Candidates[27]
Wisconsin 1 Halbert E. Paine National
Union 		1864 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Wisconsin 2 Ithamar Sloan National
Union 		1862 Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.
Wisconsin 3 Amasa Cobb National
Union 		1862 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Wisconsin 4 Charles A. Eldredge Democratic 1862 Incumbent re-elected.
Wisconsin 5 Philetus Sawyer National
Union 		1864 Incumbent re-elected as a Republican.
Wisconsin 6 Walter D. McIndoe National
Union 		1862 (special) Incumbent retired.
Republican hold.

Non-voting delegates

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See also: Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives
District Incumbent This race
Delegate Party First elected Results Candidates
Colorado Territory at-large
Dakota Territory at-large
Idaho Territory at-large Edward D. Holbrook Democratic 1864 Incumbent re-elected.
Montana Territory at-large Samuel McLean Democratic 1864 Incumbent retired.
Democratic hold.
New Mexico Territory at-large
Utah Territory at-large
Washington Territory at-large

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Excludes states readmitted after the start of Congress.
  2. ^ a b Including late elections.
  3. ^ Represents the results of the National Union coalition in the last election cycle.
  4. ^ In comparison to the vote for the National Union coalition in the last election cycle.
  5. ^ a b c Includes 1 Independent Republican, Lewis Selye, and 1 Conservative Republican, Thomas E. Stewart.
  6. ^ Conservatives in Virginia took 4 seats
  7. ^ a b Previous election had 3 Unionists.
  8. ^ In 1845, Congress passed a law providing for a uniform date for choosing presidential electors (see: Statutes at Large, 28th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 721). Congressional elections were unaffected by this law, but the date was gradually adopted by the states for congressional elections as well.
  9. ^ One seat remained vacant throughout the 40th Congress.
  10. ^ Previous election had 4 Unionists.
  11. ^ 8 Unionists in previous election.
  12. ^ 50 vacancies from secessionist states
  13. ^ Previous election had 18 Unionists.
  14. ^ a b c Morgan (Democratic) was initially seated (and thus is counted towards the party totals at this article), but the election was contested and the seat was subsequently awarded to Delano (Republican) during the 40th Congress's second session.

References

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  1. ^ Martis, pp. 120–121; Dubin, p. 209.
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  3. ^ "KY - District 06 - Special Election Race - Sep 15, 1866". Our Campaigns. March 2, 2010. Retrieved February 10, 2022.
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  11. ^ "State of Connecticut Elections Database » Search Past Election Results". State of Connecticut Elections Database. Retrieved October 9, 2024.
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  14. ^ Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Vol. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company. pp. 228, 229.
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