The U.S. House election, 1814 was an election for the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

 to the Fourteenth United States Congress. Voting in the various states was held between April 1814 (New York)

United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 1814

The 1814 United States House of Representatives elections in New York were held from April 26 to 28, 1814, to elect 27 U.S. Representatives to represent the State of New York in the United States House of Representatives of the 14th United States Congress....

 and August 10, 1815 (North Carolina). The Congress met on December 4, 1815. Indiana elected its first Representative on August 5, 1816.

Although this election was fought in the middle of the War of 1812

War of 1812

The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. The Americans declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant...

, which was extremely unpopular in certain portions of the country, the ruling Democratic-Republican Party made slight gains. Despite the negatives of the war, including the failed American invasion of Upper Canada

Upper Canada

The Province of Upper Canada was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution...

 (Ontario) and the siege of the nation's capital

Burning of Washington

The Burning of Washington was an armed conflict during the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, led by General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following...

 by the British, the war was viewed by many as relatively successful. National morale was high because the small American military had been able to fight a relatively even war with the powerful, but overstretched, British forces in this mostly coastal and frontier conflict.

Overall results

Party	Total seats (change)		Seat percentage
Democratic-Republicans Democratic-Republican Party (United States) The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...	119	+5	65.0%
Federalists Federalist Party (United States) The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the federal government until 1801...	64	-4	35.0%
Totals	183	+1	100%

External links

• http://clerk.house.gov/histHigh/Congressional_History