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Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives, 1789-2002
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Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives,
1789-2002
Jeffery A. Jenkins
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
601 University Place
Evanston, IL 60208
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This paper identifies, tracks, and examines the 601 contested election cases in the House of Representatives from the 1st through 107th (1789-2002) Congresses. A chief goal of the paper is to assess the degree to which partisanship has been a significant factor in influencing contested election outcomes. The chief finding is that a sizeable majority of successful contests have favored the majority party; however, the overall impact of the contested election process, in terms of adding majority party seats, has been quite small on a per-Congress basis. The one exception to this latter finding was during the late-nineteenth century, when a significant increase in successful contests, and majority party additions, occurred. This was due, in large part, to the Republican Party’s strategic use of contested elections as a means of maintaining a presence in the former-Confederate South. Paper prepared for presentation at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. Comments welcome.
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Partisanship and Contested Election Cases in the House of Representatives,
1789-2002
Jeffery A. Jenkins
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
601 University Place
Evanston, IL 60208
## email not listed ##
This paper identifies, tracks, and examines the 601 contested election cases in the House of
Representatives from the 1st through 107th (1789-2002) Congresses. A chief goal of the paper is
to assess the degree to which partisanship has been a significant factor in influencing contested
election outcomes. The chief finding is that a sizeable majority of successful contests have
favored the majority party; however, the overall impact of the contested election process, in
terms of adding majority party seats, has been quite small on a per-Congress basis. The one
exception to this latter finding was during the late-nineteenth century, when a significant increase
in successful contests, and majority party additions, occurred. This was due, in large part, to the
Republican Party’s strategic use of contested elections as a means of maintaining a presence in
the former-Confederate South.
Paper prepared for presentation at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA. Comments welcome.
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