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Elections among the 33 states to the 37th United States Congress of the House of Representatives were held August 1860 through September 1861. Following the presidential election of 1860 Electoral College vote and Inauguration swearing-in their term would coincide with the first two years of Abraham Lincoln’s first administration.Republican candidates won increasing percentages of the House in 1856 1858 and in 1860 after secessionist losses they amounted to 59% of the House.
