The 1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 2, 1832, and October 7, 1833. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 23rd United States Congress convened on December 2, 1833. They were held concurrently with the 1832 presidential election, in which Democrat^{[lower-alpha 3]} Andrew Jackson was re-elected. The congressional reapportionment based on the 1830 United States census increased the size of the House to 240 seats.

Quick Facts All 240 seats in the United States House of Representatives 121 seats needed for a majority, Majority party ...

1832–33 United States House of Representatives elections

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All 240 seats in the United States House of Representatives 121 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Andrew Stevenson Lewis Williams Party Jacksonian National Republican Leader's seat Virginia 11th North Carolina 13th Last election 126 seats 66 seats Seats won 143[lower-alpha 2] 63[lower-alpha 2] Seat change 17 3   Third party Fourth party   Party Anti-Masonic Nullifier Last election 17 seats 4 seats Seats won 25 9 Seat change 8 5
Speaker before election Andrew Stevenson Jacksonian Elected Speaker Andrew Stevenson Jacksonian

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The Jacksonians^{[lower-alpha 3]} gained 17 seats, picking up several new seats in districts that were created by the reapportionment, with the rival National Republican Party losing three seats.

Economic issues were key factors in this election: Southern agricultural districts reacted angrily to the passage of the Tariff of 1832, which led to the Nullification Crisis. President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonians showed a distrust for the banking sector, particularly the central Second Bank of the United States, which was strongly supported by the rival National Republican Party.^{[lower-alpha 4]}

The third-party Anti-Masonic Party, based on anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led states' rights party that supported South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis, picked up eight of the nine representatives in South Carolina's delegation.

The House initially elected Andrew Stevenson as Speaker, but he resigned from the House after President Jackson appointed him as U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom: National Republican Representatives subsequently elected John Bell as Speaker over James Polk.

Following the 1830 census, 27 new seats were apportioned,^[1] with 4 states losing 1 seat each, 8 states having no change, and the remaining 12 states gaining between 1 and 6 seats.

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State	Type	Date	Total seats		National Republican		Anti-Masonic		Jacksonian		Nullifier
			Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change	Seats	Change
Delaware	At-large	November 13, 1832	1		1		0		0		0
Georgia	At-large	October 1, 1832	9	2	0		0		9	2	0
Illinois	Districts	August 6, 1832	3	2	0		0		3	2	0
Louisiana[lower-alpha 5]	Districts	July 2–4, 1832	3		3		0		0		0
Mississippi	At-large	August 6–7, 1832	2	1	0		0		2	1	0
Missouri[lower-alpha 6]	At-large	August 5–6, 1833	2	1	2	1	0		0		0
New Jersey	At-large	November 6, 1832	6		0	6	0		6	6	0
New York	District	November 5–7, 1832	40	6	0	3	8		32	9	0
Ohio	Districts	October 9, 1832	19	5	6	2	2	2	11	5	0
Pennsylvania	Districts	October 9, 1832	28	2	4	2	10	3	14	3	0
Late elections (after the March 4, 1833, beginning of the term)
Alabama	Districts	August 5, 1833	5	2	0		0		4	1	1	1
Connecticut	At-large	April 11, 1833	6		6		0		0		0
Indiana	Districts	August 5, 1833	7	4	1	1	0		6	3	0
Kentucky	Districts	August 5, 1833	13	1	9	5	0		4	4	0
Maine	Districts	September 9, 1833	8	1	1		0		7	1	0
Maryland	Districts	October 7, 1833	8	1	2	3	0		6	2	0
Massachusetts	Districts	April 1, 1833	12	1	9	4	2	2	1	1	0
New Hampshire	At-large	March 12, 1833	5	1	0		0		5	1	0
North Carolina	Districts	August 8, 1833	13		7	5	0		6	5	0
Rhode Island	At-large	August 27, 1833	2		1	1	1	1	0		0
South Carolina	Districts	September 2–3, 1833	9		0		0		1	4	8	4
Tennessee	Districts	August 1–2, 1833	13	4	1		0		12	4	0
Vermont	Districts	January 1, 1833	5		3		2		0		0
Virginia	Districts	April 1833	21	1	7	2	0		14	3	0
Total			240	27	63 26.3%	3	25 10.4%	8	143 59.6%	17	9 3.8%	5

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Connecticut kept its apportionment at 6 seats and elected its members at-large April 11, 1833.

Georgia now had 9 seats, having gained 2 seats in reapportionment, and elected its members at-large on October 1, 1832.

Illinois gained two seats in reapportionment and elected its three members on August 6, 1832.

Maine held its elections September 9, 1833.

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Elections were held April 1, 1833, after the term began but before the House convened in December 1833. However, at least one district went to several ballots into early 1834.

Elections held early, on August 6, 1832.

New York elected its 40 members from November 5 to 7, 1832. It gained seven members from reapportionment. Two members were elected in the 8th, 17th, 22nd, and 23rd districts, while four members were elected in the 3rd district on a general ticket.

Following the reapportionment resulting from the 1830 census, Pennsylvania gained two representatives, increasing from 26 to 28, and was redistricted into 25 districts, two of which were plural districts. Pennsylvania elected its members October 9, 1832.

Elections held late, from August 1 to August 2, 1833.

Vermont elected its members January 1, 1833, but two were elected late in the Spring of 1833. The 4th district's election in the previous cycle (1830–1831) went to eleven ballots, so its member wasn't elected until the 1832, near the beginning of this cycle (1832–1833).

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