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| + | In the '''midterm elections of 1922''', the [[Democratic Party]] gained 77 seats in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] and five seats in the [[U.S. Senate]] from the [[Republican Party]]. Following [[Warren Harding]]'s landslide victory in 1920, Republicans received an overwhelming 302-131 seat majority. The post-war recession of 1920 and 1921 had failed to fully recover. Democrats also benefited from prompt district remapping, and did particularly well in urban areas and northern cities. Republicans were hurt after a division between [[conservative]]s and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]-era [[progressive]]s. |