The U.S. House election, 1826 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...

 in 1826.

In these midterm campaigns, the aftershock of the contested 1824 presidential election

United States presidential election, 1824

In the United States presidential election of 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The previous years had seen a one-party government in the United States, as the Federalist Party had dissolved, leaving...

 remained a major issue. From the ruins of the imploded Democratic-Republican party, supporters of President John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...

 had organized the National Republican Party, which campaigned on a platform of economic nationalism and modernization. Supporters of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 continued to call themselves Democratic-Republicans (but actually laid the framework for the modern Democratic Party, which was formed two years later). The Democratic-Republican Party was able to pick up a slim majority in the House by painting an image of the National Republicans as elitist and of the Democrats as the party of the common farmer or artisan. This tactic helped them pick up a number of rural seats.

Overall results

Party	Total seats (change)		Seat percentage
Democratic-Republicans	113	+9	53.1%
National Republicans National Republican Party (United States) The National Republicans were a political party in the United States. During the administration of John Quincy Adams , the president's supporters were referred to as Adams Men or Anti-Jackson. When Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States in 1828, this group went into opposition...	100	-9	46.9%
Totals	213	0	100%