1894 United States elections

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Elections were held on November 6, 1894, and elected the members of the 54th United States Congress. These were mid-term elections during Democratic President Grover Cleveland's second non-consecutive term. The Republican landslide of 1894 marked a realigning election in American politics as the nation moved from the Third Party System that had focused on issues of the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era, and entered the Fourth Party System, known as the Progressive Era, which focused on middle-class reforms. The Democrats suffered a landslide defeat in the House, losing over 100 seats to the Republicans in the single largest swing in the history of the House. The Democrats also lost four seats in the Senate, thus resulting in the President's party completely losing control of both houses of Congress, the first time this ever happened in a midterm election. The Democratic Party losses can be traced largely to the Panic of 1893 and the ineffective party leadership of Cleveland...

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