1846–47 United States House of Representatives elections

States held the 1846–47 United States House of Representatives elections between August 2, 1846 and November 2, 1847 during President James K. Polk's term. Each state separately set a date for its elections to the House of Representatives. From 29 states, 228 elected Representatives were seated, including the first from the new states of Iowa and Texas, when the first session of the 30th United States Congress convened on December 6, 1847.

1846–47 United States House of Representatives elections

← 1844 & 1845 August 2, 1846 – November 2, 1847 1848 & 1849 →
← outgoing members elected members →
All 230 seats in the United States House of Representatives 116 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Robert Winthrop Linn Boyd Party Whig Democratic Leader's seat Massachusetts 1st Kentucky 1st Last election 79 seats 142 seats Seats won 116 110 Seat change 37 32 Popular vote 1,033,506 1,124,080 Percentage 44.52% 48.43% Swing 0.27pp 1.59pp   Third party Fourth party   Party Know Nothing Independent Last election 6 seats 0 seats Seats won 1 3 Seat change 5 3 Popular vote 28,198 63,690 Percentage 1.21% 2.74% Swing 0.88pp 1.49pp
Results:      Democratic hold      Democratic gain      Whig hold      Whig gain      Independent gain      Know Nothing hold
Speaker before election John Davis Democratic Elected Speaker Robert Winthrop Whig

The Whigs won a change in partisan control of the House from the rival Democrats. The Whigs gained seats in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern states. Representatives of the minor, nativist Know Nothing Party and independents won a few seats.

The Mexican–American War, which the incumbent House had voted overwhelmingly to approve, was the main issue. The war had much stronger voter support in the West, South, and among Democrats than in the East, North, and among Whigs. Voters widely, accurately believed that the United States would win the war relatively easily and would make large territorial gains. Anticipating victory, Representative David Wilmot, Democrat of Pennsylvania, proposed that Congress act to ban slavery in these projected new territories. Congress ultimately rejected the Wilmot Proviso, but not quickly, smoothly, or without significant public controversy. Protracted debate aggravated sectional tensions. The repeated failure of Congress, and later also the President and Supreme Court, over the next decade to definitively resolve the issue of slavery in the territories would become a major cause of the Civil War.

This was the last time the Whig Party won a House majority, though candidates opposed to the Democratic Party would win a large majority in the realigning 1854 election. Notable freshmen included Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, elected as a Whig to his only term.

Election summaries

The trend toward single-member districts culminated, as no multi-member districts featured.

In 1845, partly motivated by the successful 1844 test of the electric telegraph between Washington and Baltimore, a major technological change enabling news and information to be transmitted almost instantaneously regardless of distance, Congress established a uniform date for choosing Presidential electors. Gradually, states would align nearly all elections with this date, though as of this election, only three states had done so.

Two House seats were added for the new State of Wisconsin. Wisconsin was unrepresented for most of the first session.

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110	2	116
Democratic		Whig

State	Type	Date	Total seats	Democratic		Whig		Other
				Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Elections for new states (Not included in totals below)
Texas	District	March 30, 1846	2	2	2	0		0
Iowa	At-large	October 26, 1846	2	2	2	0		0
General elections
Missouri	District	August 2, 1846	5	5		0		0
Arkansas	At-large	August 3, 1846	1	1		0		0
Illinois	District	August 3, 1846	7	6		1		0
Vermont	District	September 1, 1846	4	1		3		0
Maine	District	September 14, 1846	7	6		1		0
Florida	At-large	October 5, 1846	1	0	1	1	1	0
Georgia	District	October 5, 1846	8	4	1	4	1	0
South Carolina	District	October 12–13, 1846	7	7		0		0
Ohio	District	October 13, 1846	21	10	3	11	3	0
Pennsylvania	District	October 13, 1846	24	7	5	16	6	1	1
Texas	District	November 2, 1846	2	2		0		0
Michigan	District	November 3, 1846 (Election Day)	3	3		0		0
New Jersey	District		5	1		4		0
New York	District		34	11	10	23	14	0	4
Massachusetts	District	November 9, 1846	10	0		10		0
Delaware	At-large	November 10, 1846	1	0		1		0
Late elections (after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term)
New Hampshire	District	March 9, 1847	4	2	1	1	1	1	1
Connecticut	District	April 5, 1847	4	0		4		0
Rhode Island	District	April 7, 1847	2	1	1	1	1	0
Virginia	District	April 22, 1847	15	9	5	6	5	0
Alabama	District	August 2, 1847	7	5	1	2	1	0
Indiana	District	August 2, 1847	10	6	2	4	2	0
Iowa	District	August 2, 1847	2	2		0		0
Kentucky	District	August 2, 1847	10	4	1	6	1	0
Tennessee	District	August 2, 1847	11	6		5		0
North Carolina	District	August 5, 1847	9	3	3	6	3	0
Maryland	District	October 6, 1847	6	2	2	4	2	0
Mississippi	District	November 1–2, 1847	4	3	1	1	1	0
Louisiana	District	November 2, 1847	4	3		1		0
Total			228	110 48.7%	35	116 50.4%	38	2 0.9%	4

Popular vote

Democratic			48.43%
Independent			2.74%
Know Nothing			1.21%
Whig			44.52%
Others			3.10%

House seats

Democratic			47.81%
Independent			0.88%
Know Nothing			0.44%
Whig			50.88%

Special elections

29th Congress

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Georgia 3	Washington Poe	Whig	1844	Member-elect declined the seat. New member elected January 5, 1846. Democratic gain. Winner later lost re-election to the next term; see below.	▌Y George W. Towns (Democratic) 51.6% ▌Ambrose Baber (Whig) 48.4%
Louisiana 1	John Slidell	Democratic	1843	Incumbent resigned November 10, 1845. New member elected January 5, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term; see below.	▌Y Emile La Sére (Democratic) 78.2% ▌John McHenry (Independent) 16.1% ▌Thomas M. Wadsworth (Independent) 5.7%
Virginia 11	William Taylor	Democratic	1843	Incumbent died January 17, 1846. New member elected February 9, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term; see below.	▌Y James McDowell (Democratic) Unopposed
Alabama 3	William L. Yancey	Democratic	1844 (special)	Incumbent resigned September 1, 1846. New member elected October 12, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner was not a candidate for the next term; see below.	▌Y James L. F. Cottrell (Democratic) 50.2% ▌Samuel S. Beman (Whig) 49.8%
Missouri at-large 1 of 5 seats	Sterling Price	Democratic	1844	Incumbent resigned August 12, 1846, to serve in the Mexican–American War. New member elected October 31, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner was not a candidate for the next term; see below.	▌Y William McDaniel (Democratic) 48.1% ▌William M. Kincaid (Whig) 46.2% ▌James W. Morgan (Unknown) 5.0% ▌Edward M. Halden (Unknown) 0.7%
New York 12	Richard P. Herrick	Whig	1844	Incumbent died June 20, 1846. New member elected November 3, 1846. Whig hold. Winner not elected the same day to the next term; see below.	▌Y Thomas C. Ripley (Whig) 50.8% ▌Thomas W. Jones (Democratic) 48.2% ▌Simeon E. Church (Liberty) 1.0%
Alabama 7	Felix G. McConnell	Democratic	1843	Incumbent died September 10, 1846. New member elected November 9, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term; see below.	▌Y Franklin W. Bowdon (Democratic) 45.2% ▌Benjamin Goodman (Whig) 33.1% ▌T. A. Walker (Democratic) 21.7%
Arkansas at-large	Archibald Yell	Democratic	1836 1838 (retired) 1844	Incumbent resigned July 1, 1846, to serve in the United States Volunteers. New member elected December 14, 1846. Whig gain. Winner was not a candidate for the next term; see below.	▌Y Thomas Willoughby Newton (Whig) 28.5% ▌George W. Paschal (Democratic) 28.2% ▌Albert Rust (Democratic) 27.1% ▌C. F. Noland (Whig) 14.0% ▌Herndon Haralson (Democratic) 2.2%
Mississippi at-large 1 of 4 seats	Jefferson Davis	Democratic	1845	Incumbent resigned October 28, 1846, to serve in the Mexican–American War. New member elected December 21–22, 1846. Democratic hold. Winner was not a candidate for the next term; see below.	▌Y Henry T. Ellett (Democratic) 52.7% ▌Peter Burwell Starke (Whig) 47.3%
Illinois 7	Edward D. Baker	Whig	1844	Incumbent resigned January 15, 1847 to join the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. New member elected January 20, 1847. Whig hold. Winner was not a candidate for the next term; see below.	▌Y John Henry (Whig) 56.7% ▌Israel W. Crosby (Democratic) 30.4% ▌Archibald Job (Democratic) 6.9% ▌Turner R. King (Independent) 2.9% ▌William Brown (Whig) 1.9% Scattering 1.2%

30th Congress

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Illinois 5	Stephen A. Douglas	Democratic	1842	Incumbent resigned March 3, 1847, after being elected to the U.S. Senate. New member elected August 2, 1847. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term.	▌Y William Alexander Richardson (Democratic) 77.5% ▌Nathaniel G. Wilcox (Whig) 22.5%
Virginia 2	George Dromgoole	Democratic	1835 1841 (retired) 1843	Incumbent died April 27, 1847. New member elected August 5, 1847. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term.	▌Y Richard Kidder Meade (Democratic) 53.9% ▌George W. Bolling (Whig) 46.1%
Michigan 2	Edward Bradley	Democratic	1846	Incumbent died August 5, 1847. New member elected November 2, 1847. Democratic hold. Winner later lost re-election to the next term.	▌Y Charles E. Stuart (Democratic) 52.2% ▌James W. Gordon (Whig) 43.9% ▌William C. Denison (Unknown) 3.9%
Ohio 7	Thomas L. Hamer	Democratic	1832 1838 (retired) 1846	Incumbent died December 2, 1846. New member elected November 8, 1847. Democratic hold. Winner later re-elected to the next term.	▌Y Jonathan D. Morris (Democratic) 94.1% Scattering 5.9%

Alabama

Elections were held August 2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Alabama 1	Edmund S. Dargan	Democratic	1845	Incumbent retired. Whig gain.	▌Y John Gayle (Whig) 52.9% ▌John Taylor (Democratic) 47.1%
Alabama 2	Henry W. Hilliard	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Henry W. Hilliard (Whig) Unopposed
Alabama 3	James L. F. Cottrell	Democratic	1846 (special)	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Sampson Willis Harris (Democratic) 71.2% ▌William S. Mead (Unknown) 20.0% ▌Gideon P. Walker (Unknown) 8.8%
Alabama 4	William Winter Payne	Democratic	1843	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Samuel Williams Inge (Democratic) 50.9% ▌W. M. Murphy (Whig) 49.1%
Alabama 5	George S. Houston	Democratic	1841	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y George S. Houston (Democratic) 60.5% ▌David Hubbard (Democratic) 39.5%
Alabama 6	Reuben Chapman	Democratic	1835	Incumbent retired to run for governor. Democratic hold.	▌Y Williamson R. W. Cobb (Democratic) 45.2% ▌William Acklen (Democratic) 37.4% ▌B. F. Pope (Democratic) 17.4%
Alabama 7	Franklin W. Bowdon	Democratic	1846 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Franklin W. Bowdon (Democratic) 52.3% ▌Samuel Farrow Rice (Democratic) 38.8% ▌[FNU] Phillips (Democratic) 7.6% ▌William Garrett (Democratic) 1.2%

Arkansas

Arkansas elected its sole member August 3, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Arkansas at-large	Vacant			Rep. Archibald Yell (D) resigned July 1, 1846 to serve in the United States Volunteers. Democratic hold. Winner was not elected to finish the current term; see above.	▌Y Robert W. Johnson (Democratic) Uncontested

Connecticut

Elections were held April 5, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Connecticut 1	James Dixon	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y James Dixon (Whig) 50.5% ▌William J. Hamersly (Democratic) 47.1% ▌William H. Burleigh (Liberty) 2.4%
Connecticut 2	Samuel D. Hubbard	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Samuel D. Hubbard (Whig) 50.9% ▌Samuel Ingham (Democratic) 46.3% ▌Ely Warner (Liberty) 2.8%
Connecticut 3	John A. Rockwell	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John A. Rockwell (Whig) 49.5% ▌Noyes Billings (Democratic) 45.2% ▌Increase Wilson (Liberty) 5.3%
Connecticut 4	Truman Smith	Whig	1839 1843 (retired) 1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Truman Smith (Whig) 52.0% ▌George Taylor (Democratic) 45.7% ▌Uriel Tuttle (Liberty) 2.3%

Delaware

The election was held November 10, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Delaware at-large	John W. Houston	Whig	1844	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John W. Houston (Whig) 51.0% ▌John D. Delworth (Democratic) 49.0%

Florida

The election was held October 5, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Florida at-large	William H. Brockenbrough	Democratic	1845 (special)	Incumbent retired. Whig gain.	▌Y Edward C. Cabell (Whig) 50.9% ▌William A. Kain (Democratic) 49.1%

Georgia

Elections were held October 5, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Georgia 1
Georgia 2
Georgia 3
Georgia 4
Georgia 5
Georgia 6
Georgia 7
Georgia 8

Illinois

1846 Illinois's 7th congressional district election

← 1844 August 3, 1846 1848 →

Nominee Abraham Lincoln Peter Cartwright Party Whig Democratic Popular vote 6,340 4,829 Percentage 55.53% 42.29%

Lincoln:      30–40%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80% Cartwright:      50–60%

U.S. Representative before election Edward D. Baker Whig Elected U.S. Representative Abraham Lincoln Whig

Elections were held August 3, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Illinois 1	Robert Smith	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected. Independent Democratic gain.	▌Y Robert Smith (Independent Democratic) 58.1% ▌Lyman Trumbull (Democratic) 41.3%
Illinois 2	John A. McClernand	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YJohn A. McClernand (Democratic) 97.3%
Illinois 3	Orlando B. Ficklin	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YOrlando B. Ficklin (Democratic) 57.1% ▌ 'Robert K. McLaughlin (Independent) 42.7%
Illinois 4	John Wentworth	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John Wentworth (Democratic) 55.8% ▌John Kerr (Whig) 28.0% ▌Owen Lovejoy (Liberty) 16.3%
Illinois 5	Stephen A. Douglas	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌YStephen A. Douglas (Democratic) 57.0% ▌Isaac VanderVenter (Whig) 40.6%
Illinois 6	Joseph P. Hoge	Democratic	1842	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌YThomas J. Turner (Democratic) 48.4% ▌James Knox (Whig) 46.3% ▌Wade Talccott (Liberty) 5.2%
Illinois 7	Edward D. Baker	Whig	1844	Incumbent retired. Whig hold. Incumbent then resigned early, leading to a special election.	▌Y Abraham Lincoln (Whig) 55.53% ▌Peter Cartwright (Democratic) 42.29% ▌Elihu Walcott (Liberty) 2.18%

Indiana

Elections were held August 2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Indiana 1
Indiana 2
Indiana 3
Indiana 4
Indiana 5
Indiana 6
Indiana 7
Indiana 8
Indiana 9
Indiana 10

Iowa

Elections to the 29th Congress

Elections for the new state were held October 26, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Iowa at-large (2 seats)	New state			New seat. New member elected October 26, 1846. Democratic gain. Winner (Leffler) was later elected in the 2nd district to the next term, see below.	(Elected on a general ticket) ▌Y Shepherd Leffler (Democratic) 26.47% ▌Y S. Clinton Hastings (Democratic) 26.10% ▌Joseph H. Hedrick (Whig) 23.86% ▌G. C. Mitchell (Whig) 23.57%
	New state			New seat. New member elected October 26, 1846. Democratic gain. Winner (Hastings) would not be a candidate for the next term, see below.

Elections to the 30th Congress

Elections were held August 2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Iowa 1	New seat			New district. Democratic gain.	▌Y William Thompson (Democratic) 52.59% ▌Jesse B. Browne (Whig) 47.41%
Iowa 2	Shepherd Leffler Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1846	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Shepherd Leffler (Democratic) 51.43% ▌Thomas McKnight (Whig) 48.58%
	S. Clinton Hastings Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1846	Incumbent retired. Democratic loss.

Kentucky

Elections were held August 2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Kentucky 1
Kentucky 2
Kentucky 3
Kentucky 4
Kentucky 5
Kentucky 6
Kentucky 7
Kentucky 8
Kentucky 9
Kentucky 10

Louisiana

Elections were held November 2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Louisiana 1
Louisiana 2
Louisiana 3
Louisiana 4

Maine

Elections were held September 14, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Maine 1
Maine 2
Maine 3
Maine 4
Maine 5
Maine 6
Maine 7

Maryland

Elections were held October 6, 1847 elections were after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the new term, but still before the Congress convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Maryland 1
Maryland 2
Maryland 3
Maryland 4
Maryland 5
Maryland 6

Massachusetts

Elections were held November 9, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Massachusetts 1
Massachusetts 2
Massachusetts 3
Massachusetts 4
Massachusetts 5
Massachusetts 6
Massachusetts 7	Julius Rockwell	Whig	1844 (late)	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Julius Rockwell (Whig) 53.34% ▌Horatio Byington (Democratic) 38.63% ▌Jasper Bement (Liberty) 8.04%
Massachusetts 8	John Quincy Adams	Whig	1830	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John Quincy Adams (Whig) 62.23% ▌Isaac H. Wright (Democratic) 28.25% ▌Appleton Howe (Liberty) 9.52%
Massachusetts 9
Massachusetts 10

Michigan

Elections were held November 3, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Michigan 1	Robert McClelland	Democratic	1843	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Robert McClelland (Democratic) 52.2% ▌Edwin Lawrence (Whig) 42.7% ▌Charles H. Stewart (Liberty) 5.1%
Michigan 2	John S. Chipman	Democratic	1844	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Edward Bradley (Democratic) 49.3% ▌James W. Gordon (Whig) 44.9% ▌Erastus Hussey (Liberty) 5.8%
Michigan 3	James B. Hunt	Democratic	1843	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Kinsley S. Bingham (Democratic) 49.0% ▌George W. Wisner (Whig) 43.6% ▌William Caulfield (Liberty) 7.4%

Mississippi

Elections were held November 1–2, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Mississippi 1	Jacob Thompson	Democratic	1839	Incumbent redistricted from the at-large district. Democratic hold.	▌Y Jacob Thompson (Democratic) 54.38% ▌Robert Josselyn (Independent Democratic) 45.62%
Mississippi 2	None (new district)			New district. Democratic gain.	▌Y Winfield S. Featherston (Democratic) 53.52% ▌Alexander K. McClung (Whig) 46.48%
Mississippi 3	Robert W. Roberts	Democratic	1843	Incumbent redistricted from the at-large district. Whig gain.	▌Y Patrick W. Tompkins (Whig) 52.06% ▌Robert W. Roberts (Democratic) 47.94%
Mississippi 4	None (new district)			New district. Democratic gain.	▌Y Albert G. Brown (Democratic) 93.74% ▌John A. Quitman (Democratic) 5.64% Scattering 0.62%

Missouri

Elections were held August 2, 1846. All five seats remained Democratic. Three of the members retired.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Missouri 1	James B. Bowlin Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y James B. Bowlin (Democratic) 52.20% ▌Uriel Wright (Whig) 36.81% ▌William Milburn (Independent) 10.99%
Missouri 2	William McDaniel Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1846 (special)	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y John Jameson (Democratic) 81.09% ▌Preston P. Brickey (Whig) 18.91%
	James H. Relfe Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1842	Incumbent retired. Democratic loss.
Missouri 3	New district			New district. Democratic gain.	▌Y James S. Green (Democratic) 55.27% ▌John Gaines Miller (Whig) 44.73%
Missouri 4	New district			New district. Democratic gain.	▌Y Willard P. Hall (Democratic) 64.98% ▌James H. Birch (Whig) 35.02%
Missouri 5	John S. Phelps Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1844	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John S. Phelps (Democratic) 53.26% ▌John P. Campbell (Whig) 46.74%
	Leonard H. Sims Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1844	Incumbent retired. Democratic loss.

New Hampshire

Elections were held March 9, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847. Two of the districts had run-off elections in July 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Hampshire 1	Vacant seat due to the failure to elect.			Independent gain.	First ballot (March 9, 1847) ▌Benning W. Jenness (Democratic) 44.66% ▌Amos Tuck (Liberty) 15.04% ▌Ichabod Goodwin (Whig) Second ballot (July 8, 1847) ▌Y Amos Tuck (Independent) 56.66% ▌Benning W. Jenness (Democratic) 42.49%
New Hampshire 2	Moses Norris Jr. Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1843	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Charles Peaslee (Democratic) 57.27% ▌Joel Eastman (Whig) 27.78% ▌George W. Stevens (Liberty) 14.96%
New Hampshire 3	Mace Moulton Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1845	Incumbent lost re-election. Democratic hold.	First ballot (March 9, 1847) ▌Mace Moulton (Democratic) ▌James Wilson (Whig) 42.34% ▌John Preston (Liberty) 10.51% Second ballot (July 8, 1847) ▌Y James Wilson (Whig) 51.27% ▌Mace Moulton (Democratic) 44.00% ▌John Preston (Liberty) 4.72%
New Hampshire 4	James Hutchins Johnson Redistricted from the at-large district	Democratic	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y James Hutchins Johnson (Democratic) [data missing]

New Jersey

Elections were held November 3, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New Jersey 1
New Jersey 2
New Jersey 3
New Jersey 4
New Jersey 5

New York

Elections were held November 3, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
New York 1
New York 2
New York 3
New York 4
New York 5
New York 6
New York 7
New York 8
New York 9
New York 10
New York 11
New York 12
New York 13
New York 14
New York 15
New York 16
New York 17
New York 18
New York 19
New York 20
New York 21
New York 22
New York 23
New York 24
New York 25
New York 26
New York 27
New York 28
New York 29
New York 30
New York 31
New York 32
New York 33
New York 34

North Carolina

Elections were held August 5, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
North Carolina 1
North Carolina 2
North Carolina 3
North Carolina 4
North Carolina 5
North Carolina 6
North Carolina 7
North Carolina 8
North Carolina 9

Ohio

Elections were held October 13, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Ohio 1
Ohio 2
Ohio 3
Ohio 4
Ohio 5
Ohio 6
Ohio 7
Ohio 8
Ohio 9
Ohio 10
Ohio 11
Ohio 12
Ohio 13
Ohio 14
Ohio 15
Ohio 16
Ohio 17
Ohio 18
Ohio 19
Ohio 20
Ohio 21

Pennsylvania

Elections were held October 13, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Pennsylvania 1
Pennsylvania 2
Pennsylvania 3
Pennsylvania 4
Pennsylvania 5
Pennsylvania 6
Pennsylvania 7
Pennsylvania 8
Pennsylvania 9
Pennsylvania 10
Pennsylvania 11
Pennsylvania 12
Pennsylvania 13
Pennsylvania 14
Pennsylvania 15
Pennsylvania 16
Pennsylvania 17
Pennsylvania 18
Pennsylvania 19
Pennsylvania 20
Pennsylvania 21
Pennsylvania 22
Pennsylvania 23
Pennsylvania 24

Rhode Island

Elections were held April 7, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Rhode Island 1
Rhode Island 2

South Carolina

Elections were held October 12–13, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
South Carolina 1
South Carolina 2
South Carolina 3
South Carolina 4
South Carolina 5
South Carolina 6
South Carolina 7

Tennessee

Elections were held August 2, 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Tennessee 1	Andrew Johnson	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Andrew Johnson (Democratic) 51.87% ▌Oliver P. Temple (Whig) 48.13%
Tennessee 2	William M. Cocke	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y William M. Cocke (Whig) 61.01% ▌Wayne W. Wallace (Democratic) 38.99%
Tennessee 3	John H. Crozier	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John H. Crozier (Whig) 51.76% ▌Samuel S. Smith (Democratic) 48.25%
Tennessee 4	Alvan Cullom	Democratic	1842	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Hugh L. W. Hill (Democratic) 59.92% ▌John L. Goodall (Whig) 40.08%
Tennessee 5	George W. Jones	Democratic	1842	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y George W. Jones (Democratic) 99.14% ▌J. M. Crowly (Unknown) 0.86%
Tennessee 6	Barclay Martin	Democratic	1845	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y James H. Thomas (Democratic) 55.59% ▌Boling Gordan (Whig) 44.41%
Tennessee 7	Meredith P. Gentry	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Meredith P. Gentry (Whig) 65.05% ▌R. G. Ellis (Democratic) 34.95%
Tennessee 8	Edwin H. Ewing	Whig	1845 (special)	Incumbent retired. Whig hold.	▌Y Washington Barrow (Whig) 58.79% ▌John B. Pittman (Democratic) 41.22%
Tennessee 9	Lucien B. Chase	Democratic	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Lucien B. Chase (Democratic) 54.29% ▌John T. Swayne (Whig) 45.71%
Tennessee 10	Frederick P. Stanton	Democratic	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Frederick P. Stanton (Democratic) 50.11% ▌John W. Harris (Whig) 49.89%
Tennessee 11	Milton Brown	Whig	1841	Incumbent retired. Whig hold.	▌Y William T. Haskell (Whig) 57.18% ▌John Gardner (Democratic) 42.82%

Texas

29th Congress

Elections for the 29th Congress were held in March 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Texas 1	None (new state)			New district. Democratic gain. Winner was also elected to the next term; see below.	▌Y David S. Kaufman (Democratic) 53.9% ▌William R. Scurry (Independent) 26.3% ▌William B. Ochiltree (Independent) 19.8%
Texas 2	None (new state)			New district. Democratic gain. Winner was also elected to the next term; see below.	▌Y Timothy Pilsbury (Democratic) 30.1% ▌Samuel May Williams (Independent) 28.0% ▌William Gordon Cooke (Independent) 23.9% ▌John M. Lewis (Independent) 9.5% ▌Joseph C. Megginson (Independent) 5.4% ▌Thomas Jefferson Green (Independent) 2.4% Scattering 0.7%

30th Congress

Elections for the 30th United States Congress were held November 2, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Texas 1	David S. Kaufman	Democratic	1846	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y David S. Kaufman (Democratic) 98.1% Scattering 1.9%
Texas 2	Timothy Pilsbury	Democratic	1846	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Timothy Pilsbury (Democratic) 57.5% ▌Samuel May Williams (Independent) 20.5% ▌William E. Jones (Independent) 11.7% ▌Robert Baylor (Independent) 10.2%

Vermont

Elections were held September 1, 1846.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Vermont 1	Solomon Foot	Whig	1843	Incumbent retired. Whig hold.	▌Y William Henry (Whig) 55.2% ▌Jonathan D. Bradley (Democratic) 25.6% ▌Oscar L. Shafter (Liberty) 8.6% ▌John Roberts (Democratic) 7.6%
Vermont 2	Jacob Collamer	Whig	1843	Incumbent re-elected.	First ballot ▌Jacob Collamer (Whig) 49.1% ▌Hugh H. Henry (Democratic) 34.7% ▌Titus Hutchinson (Liberty) 15.6% Second ballot ▌Y Jacob Collamer (Whig) 62.8% ▌Levi B. Vilas (Democratic) 26.8% ▌Titus Hutchinson (Liberty) 10.3%
Vermont 3	George P. Marsh	Whig	1843	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y George P. Marsh (Whig) 53.9% ▌Homer E. Hubbell (Democratic) 30.6% ▌Norris Day (Unknown) 15.1%
Vermont 4	Paul Dillingham	Democratic	1843	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	First ballot ▌Lucius B. Peck (Democratic) 43.4% ▌George B. Chandler (Whig) 40.1% Write-ins 16.1% Second ballot ▌Lucius B. Peck (Democratic) 42.9% ▌George B. Chandler (Whig) 42.5% ▌A. J. Rowell (Liberty) 14.5% Third ballot ▌Y Lucius B. Peck (Democratic) 47.0% ▌George B. Chandler (Whig) 43.5% ▌A. J. Rowell (Liberty) 9.4%

Virginia

Elections were held April 22, 1847, after the March 4, 1847 beginning of the term, but before the House first convened in December 1847.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Virginia 1	Archibald Atkinson	Democratic	1843	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Archibald Atkinson (Democratic) 50.8% ▌Samuel Watts (Whig) 49.2%
Virginia 2	George Dromgoole	Democratic	1835 1841 (retired) 1843	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y George Dromgoole (Democratic) 50.2% ▌George W. Bolling (Whig) 49.8%
Virginia 3	William Tredway	Democratic	1845	Incumbent lost re-election. Whig gain.	▌Y Thomas Flournoy (Whig) 52.0% ▌William Tredway (Democratic) 48.0%
Virginia 4	Edmund W. Hubard	Democratic	1841	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Thomas S. Bocock (Democratic) 51.4% ▌Henry P. Irving (Whig) 48.6%
Virginia 5	Shelton Leake	Democratic	1845	Incumbent lost re-election. Whig gain.	▌Y William L. Goggin (Whig) 50.9% ▌Shelton Leake (Democratic) 49.1%
Virginia 6	John Seddon	Democratic	1845	Incumbent lost re-election. Whig gain.	▌Y John Botts (Whig) 55.4% ▌James Seddon (Democratic) 44.6%
Virginia 7	Thomas H. Bayly	Democratic	1844 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Thomas H. Bayly (Democratic) 52.5% ▌John J. Jones (Whig) 47.5%
Virginia 8	Robert M. T. Hunter	Democratic	1835 1843 (lost) 1845	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Richard L. T. Beale (Democratic) 51.9% ▌Willoughby Newton (Whig) 48.1%
Virginia 9	John Pendleton	Whig	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y John Pendleton (Whig) 58.3% ▌Richard T. Hunter (Democratic) 41.7%
Virginia 10	Henry Bedinger	Democratic	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y Henry Bedinger (Democratic) 52.6% ▌Anthony T. Kennedy (Whig) 47.4%
Virginia 11	James McDowell	Democratic	1846 (special)	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y James McDowell (Democratic) 58.2% ▌Algernon S. Gray (Whig) 41.8%
Virginia 12	Augustus A. Chapman	Democratic	1843	Incumbent lost re-election. Whig gain.	▌Y William B. Preston (Whig) 51.6% ▌Augustus A. Chapman (Democratic) 48.4%
Virginia 13	George W. Hopkins	Democratic	1835	Incumbent retired. Whig gain.	▌Y Andrew S. Fulton (Whig) 38.6% ▌Fayette McMullen (Democratic) 38.5% ▌Samuel E. Goodson (Democratic) 22.8%
Virginia 14	Joseph Johnson	Democratic	1823 1827 (lost) 1833 (special) 1833 (retired) 1835 1841 (retired) 1845	Incumbent retired. Democratic hold.	▌Y Robert A. Thompson (Democratic) 53.0% ▌William McComas (Whig) 47.0%
Virginia 15	William G. Brown Sr.	Democratic	1845	Incumbent re-elected.	▌Y William G. Brown Sr. (Democratic) 67.3% ▌J. T. Hawkins (Whig) 32.7%

Wisconsin Territory

See Non-voting delegates, below.

Non-voting delegates

District	Incumbent			This race
	Delegate	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Wisconsin Territory	Morgan Lewis Martin	Democratic	1844 or 1845	Incumbent was not renominated. Whig gain.	▌Y John Hubbard Tweedy (Whig) ▌Moses M. Strong (Democratic)

See also

• 1846 United States elections
  • List of United States House of Representatives elections (1824–1854)
  • 1846–47 United States Senate elections
• 29th United States Congress
• 30th United States Congress

Bibliography

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