The 1932 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 73rd United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 8, 1932, while Maine held theirs on September 12. They coincided with the landslide election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The inability of Herbert Hoover to deal with the Great Depression was the main issue surrounding this election, with his overwhelming unpopularity causing his Republican Party to lose 101 seats to Roosevelt's Democratic Party and the small Farmer–Labor Party, as the Democrats expanded the majority they had gained through special elections to a commanding level.
This round of elections was seen as a referendum on the once popular Republican business practices, which were eschewed for new, more liberal Democratic ideas. This was the first time since 1894 (and the last time ) that any party suffered triple-digit losses, and the Democrats posted their largest net seat pick-up in their history. These elections marked the beginning of a period of dominance in the House for the Democrats: with the exception of 1946 and 1952, the party would win every House election until 1994.
This was the first election after the congressional reapportionment based on the 1930 census, which was the first reapportionment since the passage of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 that permanently capped the House membership at 435 seats. Since no reapportionment (and in nearly all states no redistricting) had occurred after the 1920 census, the district boundary changes from the previous election were quite substantial, representing twenty years of population movement from small towns to the more Democratic cities.
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Overall results
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Special elections
There were special elections in 1932 to serve the remainder of the current 72nd United States Congress.
Special elections are sorted by date then district.
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| Fletcher Hale
| | Republican
| 1924
| | Incumbent died October 22, 1931.<br/>New member <!--elected-->elected January 5, 1932.<br/>Democratic gain.<br/>Successor was subsequently re-elected in November, see below.
| nowrap |
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| Samuel Rutherford
| | Democratic
| 1924
| | Incumbent died February 4, 1932<br/>New member <!--elected-->elected March 2, 1932.<br/>Democratic hold.<br/>Successor subsequently retired in November; see below.
| nowrap |
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| Percy Quin
| | Democratic
| 1912
| | Incumbent died February 4, 1932.<br/>New member <!--elected-->elected March 15, 1932.<br/>Democratic hold.
| nowrap |
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| Félix Córdova Dávila
| style="background:#ffbbff" | Union of Puerto Rico
| 1917
| | Incumbent resigned April 11, 1932, to become Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.<br/>New Delegate <!--elected-->elected April 15, 1932.<br/>Independent gain.<br/>Winner was not elected to finish the term; see below.
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| J. Russell Leech
| | Republican
| 1926
| | Incumbent resigned January 29, 1932, to become a member of the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals.<br/>New member <!--elected-->elected April 26, 1932.<br/>Republican hold.
| nowrap |
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| Edward E. Eslick
| | Democratic
| 1924
| | Incumbent died June 14, 1932.<br/>New member <!--elected-->elected August 14, 1932.<br/>Democratic hold.
| nowrap |