The 1886 United States elections occurred in the middle of
Democratic President
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American ...
's term, during the
Third Party System
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. Members of the
50th United States Congress
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were chosen in this election.
Democrats retained control of the House, while
Republicans retained control of the Senate.
In the
House, Republicans won a moderate number of seats, but Democrats retained a narrow majority.
In the
Senate, Democrats won a moderate number of seats, but Republicans retained a narrow majority.
See also
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1886 United States House of Representatives elections
The 1886 United States House of Representatives elections were held in the middle of President Grover Cleveland's first term.
As in many midterm elections, the President's party lost seats to the opposition, in this case, Democrats lost seats t ...
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1886–87 United States Senate elections
References
1886 elections in the United States
1886
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885.
* January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...
United States midterm elections
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