1906 United States House of Representatives elections

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1906 United States House of Representatives elections

← 1904 November 6, 1906[a] 1908 →
All 391 seats in the United States House of Representatives[b] 196 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Joseph Cannon John Sharp Williams Party Republican Democratic Leader's seat Illinois 18th Mississippi 8th Last election 251 seats 135 seats Seats won 223[1][2] 167[1][2] Seat change 28 32 Popular vote 5,695,735 4,866,899 Percentage 50.99% 43.57% Swing 3.59% 2.59%   Third party   Party Independent Last election 0 seats Seats won 1 [c] Seat change 1 Popular vote 40,264 Percentage 0.36% Swing 0.20%
Speaker before election Joseph Cannon Republican Elected Speaker Joseph Cannon Republican

The 1906 United States House of Representatives elections were held for the most part on November 6, 1906, with Oregon, Maine, and Vermont holding theirs early in either June or September. They occurred in the middle of President Theodore Roosevelt's second term. Elections were held for 386 seats of the United States House of Representatives, representing 45 states, to serve in the 60th United States Congress (Oklahoma would later gain statehood in 1907 and increase the House membership to 391).

As in many midterm elections, the President's Republican Party lost seats to the opposition Democratic Party, but retained a large overall majority. Dissatisfaction with working conditions and resentment toward union busting among industrial laborers in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest caused these groups to turn out to the polls in large numbers in support of the Democratic Party. However, gains in these regions were not enough to remove the Republican majority or the firm support that the party held among the middle class.

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