There were eight special elections to the United States House of Representatives in 1953, during the

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, giving Democrats two additional seats.

List of elections

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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

, , Incumbent member-elect died December 24, 1952.
New member elected February 4, 1953.
Democratic hold. , nowrap , , - ! , Thomas B. Stanley , ,

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, , Incumbent resigned February 3, 1953, to run for Governor of Virginia.
New member elected April 14, 1953.
Democratic hold. , nowrap , , - ! , Joseph R. Bryson , ,

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

, , Incumbent died March 10, 1953.
New member elected June 2, 1953.
Democratic hold. , nowrap , , - ! , Adolph J. Sabath , ,

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

, , Incumbent member-elect died November 6, 1952.
New member elected July 7, 1953.
Democratic hold. , nowrap , , - ! , Garrett Withers , ,

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

, , Incumbent died April 30, 1953.
New member elected August 1, 1953.
Democratic hold. , nowrap , , - ! ,

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1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

1930

1934 Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...

, , Incumbent died May 17, 1953.
New member elected October 13, 1953.
Democratic gain. , nowrap , , - ! , Clifford P. Case , ,

1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...

, , Incumbent resigned August 16, 1953 to run for Governor of New Jersey.
New member elected November 3, 1953.
Democratic gain. , nowrap , , - ! ,

Norris Poulson Charles Norris Poulson (July 23, 1895 – September 25, 1982) was an American politician who represented Southern California in public office at the local, state, and federal levels. He served as the 36th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1953 to 1961, a ...

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1942 The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was th ...

1944

, , Incumbent resigned June 11, 1953, after being elected

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New member elected November 10, 1953.
Republican hold. , nowrap ,

References

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1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...