The 1852–53 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between August 2, 1852, and November 8, 1853. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 33rd United States Congress convened on December 5, 1853. The size of the House increased to 234 seats following the congressional reapportionment based on the 1850 United States census. Democrats increased their House majority while electing national compromise candidate Franklin Pierce, a Northerner favorable to Southern interests, to the Presidency. Effects of the Compromise of 1850 temporarily had reduced sectional tensions, and both major parties, Democrats and Whigs, unified around the 1852 presidential campaign, with Whig unity more tenuous. Two small parties, the Constitutional Unionists and States' Rights parties, collapsed before this election, while the Free Soil Party, opposing slavery in the Western territories, retained four seats. One Independent, Caleb Lyon, was elected from New York.

Election summaries

Following the 1850 census, the House was reapportioned. In the initial apportionment bill, the number of seats was unchanged at 233, but later one seat was added to California's delegation, increasing the total apportionment to 234, due to returns from California being determined to be incomplete.

Alabama

Arkansas

! AR's 1st congressional district ! AR's 2nd congressional district Unidentified (Whig) 46.8%

California

Note: From statehood to 1864, California's representatives were elected at-large, with the top two vote-getters winning election from 1849 to 1858; in 1860 when California gained a seat in the House the top three vote-getters were elected. ! rowspan=2 | CA At-large 2 seats on a general ticket ✅ Milton Latham (Democratic) 15.6% Philip Leget Edwards (Whig) 23.28% George B. Tingley (Whig) 23.13%

Connecticut

! CT's 1st congressional district Charles Chapman (Whig) 44.2% John Hooker (Free Soil) 3.5% ! CT's 2nd congressional district Austin Baldwin (Whig) 42.0% Walter Booth (Free Soil) 4.9% ! CT's 3rd congressional district Daniel P. Tyler (Whig) 34.8% Albert G. Stark (Free Soil) 14.8% ! CT's 4th congressional district William W. Welch (Whig) 45.4% Daniel G. Platt (Free Soil) 0.6%

Delaware

Election was held November 8, 1852. ! Delaware At-large John W. Houston (Whig) 49.77%

Florida

! FL At-large ✅ Augustus Maxwell (Democratic) 50.1% Edward C. Cabell (Whig) 49.9%

Georgia

! Georgia's 1st congressional district ! Georgia's 2nd congressional district ! Georgia's 3rd congressional district ! Georgia's 4th congressional district ! Georgia's 5th congressional district ! Georgia's 6th congressional district ! Georgia's 7th congressional district ! Georgia's 8th congressional district

Illinois

! Illinois's 1st congressional district ! Illinois's 2nd congressional district ! Illinois's 3rd congressional district ! Illinois's 4th congressional district ! Illinois's 5th congressional district ! Illinois's 6th congressional district ! Illinois's 7th congressional district ! Illinois's 8th congressional district ! Illinois's 9th congressional district

Indiana

! Indiana's 1st congressional district ! Indiana's 2nd congressional district ! Indiana's 3rd congressional district ! Indiana's 4th congressional district ! Indiana's 5th congressional district ! Indiana's 6th congressional district ! Indiana's 7th congressional district ! Indiana's 8th congressional district ! Indiana's 9th congressional district ! Indiana's 10th congressional district ! Indiana's 11th congressional district

Iowa

! Iowa's 1st congressional district ! Iowa's 2nd congressional district

Kentucky

! Kentucky's 1st congressional district ! Kentucky's 2nd congressional district ! Kentucky's 3rd congressional district ! Kentucky's 4th congressional district ! Kentucky's 5th congressional district ! Kentucky's 6th congressional district ! Kentucky's 7th congressional district ! Kentucky's 8th congressional district ! Kentucky's 9th congressional district ! Kentucky's 10th congressional district

Louisiana

! Louisiana's 1st congressional district ! Louisiana's 2nd congressional district ! Louisiana's 3rd congressional district ! Louisiana's 4th congressional district

Maine

! Maine's 1st congressional district ! Maine's 2nd congressional district ! Maine's 3rd congressional district ! Maine's 4th congressional district ! Maine's 5th congressional district ! Maine's 6th congressional district ! Maine's 7th congressional district

Maryland

! Maryland's 1st congressional district ! Maryland's 2nd congressional district ! Maryland's 3rd congressional district ! Maryland's 4th congressional district ! Maryland's 5th congressional district ! Maryland's 6th congressional district

Massachusetts

The elections were held November 8, 1852. However, many of the districts went to a December 13, 1852 second ballot. ! Massachusetts's 1st congressional district Second ballot (December 13, 1852) ✅ Zeno Scudder (Whig) 62.91% Abraham H. Howland (Independent) 37.09% ! Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district ! Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district ! Massachusetts's 4th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 5th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 6th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 7th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 8th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 9th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 10th congressional district ! Massachusetts's 11th congressional district

Michigan

! MI's 1st congressional district William A. Howard (Whig) 46.6% Samuel W. Dexter (Free Soil) 3.0% ! MI's 2nd congressional district Joseph R. Williams (Whig) 48.3% ! MI's 3rd congressional district Henry R. Williams (Whig) 45.7% Uriah Upjohn (Free Soil) 4.9% ! MI's 4th congressional district George Bradley (Whig) 43.1% Ephraim Calkins (Free Soil) 5.1%

Mississippi

Elections held late, from November 7 to 8, 1853 ! data-sort-value=0 | MS At-large ✅ William Barksdale (Democratic) 54.27% Alexander B. Bradford (Whig) 45.73% ! MS's 1st congressional district ✅ Daniel B. Wright (Democratic) 51.64% Benjamin D. Nabers (Whig) 48.36% ! MS's 2nd congressional district John A. Wilcox (Whig) 49.27% ! MS's 3rd congressional district Alexander K. McLung (Whig) 44.35% ! MS's 4th congressional district

Missouri

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Tennessee

Elections held late, on August 4, 1853. ! rowspan=2 | TN's 1st congressional district ✅ Brookins Campbell (Democratic) 37.11% Nathaniel G. Taylor (Whig) 36.14% Albert G. Watkins (Whig) 26.75% ! TN's 2nd congressional district ✅ William M. Churchwell (Democratic) 56.64% Horace Maynard (Whig) 43.36% ! TN's 3rd congressional district ✅ Samuel A. Smith (Democratic) 55.49% T. Nixon Vandyke (Whig) 44.52% ! rowspan=2 | TN's 4th congressional district ✅ William Cullom (Whig) 50.14% Erasmus L. Gardner (Democratic) 49.86% ! TN's 5th congressional district ✅ Charles Ready (Whig) 57.86% Thomas Barry (Democratic) 42.14% ! rowspan=2 | TN's 6th congressional district ! TN's 7th congressional district ✅ Robert M. Bugg (Whig) 52.52% S. C. Pavott (Democratic) 47.48% ! TN's 8th congressional district ✅ Felix Zollicoffer (Whig) 52.96% Samuel P. Allison (Democratic) 47.04% ! rowspan=2 | TN's 9th congressional district Christopher H. Williams (Whig) 3.10% ! TN's 10th congressional district ✅ Frederick P. Stanton (Democratic) 50.03% Edwin M. Yerger (Whig) 49.97%

Texas

Vermont

! rowspan=2 | VT's 1st congressional district John Pierpoint (Free Soil) 23.1% Philip C. Tucker (Democratic) 20.6% ! VT's 2nd congressional district Daniel Kellogg (Democratic) 17.9% Ryland Fletcher (Free Soil) 16.3% ! VT's 3rd congressional district Alvah Sabin (Whig) 45.7% Henry Adams (Democratic) 30.8% A. Judson Rowell (Free Soil) 23.4% Second ballot✅ Alvah Sabin (Whig) 48.3% William Heywood Jr. (Democratic) 32.2% Charles D. Kasson (Free Soil) 19.4% ! VT's 4th congressional district

Virginia

! VA's 1st congressional district Louis H. C. Finney (Unknown) 39.9% George W. Lewis (Unknown) 1.1% ! VA's 2nd congressional district Jonathan R. Chambliss (Whig) 36.6% William D. Roberts (Democratic) 6.7% ! rowspan=2 | VA's 3rd congressional district Clayton G. Coleman (Whig) 45.1% ! VA's 4th congressional district Wyatt Cardwell (Whig) 18.4% William C. Flournoy (Unknown) 14.6% William S. Scott (Unknown) 1.7% ! VA's 5th congressional district John T. Wootton (Whig) 43.1% Thomas H. Averett (Independent) 5.1% ! VA's 6th congressional district Alexander Mosely (Whig) 47.5% ! VA's 7th congressional district Edgar Snowden Sr. (Whig) 48.2% ! rowspan=2 | VA's 8th congressional district Alexander Boteler (Whig) 47.7% ! VA's 9th congressional district Tyre Maupin (Whig) 25.6% ! VA's 10th congressional district ! VA's 11th congressional district Charles S. Lewis (Democratic) 38.3% A. M. Sterett (Whig) 21.4% ! VA's 12th congressional district ! VA's 13th congressional district ! VA's 14th congressional district ! VA's 15th congressional district

Wisconsin

! Wisconsin's 1st congressional district ✅ Daniel Wells Jr. (Democratic) 46.5% Charles Durkee (Free Soil) 31.9% Henry S. Durand (Whig) 21.6% ! Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district ✅ Ben C. Eastman (Democratic) 53.9% Chauncey Abbott (Whig) 38.7% James L. Enos (Free Soil) 7.4% ! Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district ✅ John B. Macy (Democratic) 55.5% James McMillan Shafter (Whig) 36.2% Hiram McKee (Free Soil) 8.3%

Non-voting delegates

! Minnesota Territory's at-large congressional district ✅ Henry M. Rice (Democratic) 2360 votes Wilkin 728 votes ! New Mexico Territory's at-large congressional district William Carr Lane (Whig) ! Oregon Territory's at-large congressional district ✅ Joseph Lane (Democratic)