Party
(Shading indicates party control)
Total
Democratic
(D)
Independent
Democrat

(ID)
Independent
(I)
Greenback
(GB)
Independent
Republican

(IR)
Republican
(R)
Vacant
End of
previous Congress
146 4 1 11 0 129 291 2
Begin 134 1 1 9 0 146 291 2
March 17, 1881[a] 145 290 3
March 21, 1881[b] 144 289 4
April 5, 1881[c] 145 290 3
April 26, 1881[d] 133 289 4
June 9, 1881[e] 134 290 3
July 26, 1881[f] 144 289 4
July 29, 1881[g] 143 288 5
September 12, 1881[h] 144 289 4
October 5, 1881[i] 143 288 5
November 8, 1881[j] 135 145 291 2
December 5, 1881[k] 136 146 293 0
April 8, 1882[l] 135 292 1
April 29, 1882[m] 134 147
May 31, 1882[n] 133 1
June 1, 1882[o] 132 148
June 3, 1882[p] 131 10
June 29, 1882[q] 147 291 2
July 19, 1882[r] 130 148
July 20, 1882[s] 129 290 3
October 12, 1882[t] 9 289 4
November 4, 1882[u] 128 288 5
November 7, 1882[v] 129 149 290 3
November 30, 1882[w] 148 289 4
December 4, 1882[x] 130 290 3
December 15, 1882[y] 149 291 2
December 16, 1882[z] 148 290 3
January 2, 1883[aa] 149 291 2
January 15, 1883[ab] 131 292 1
January 17, 1883[ac] 150 293 0
January 18, 1883 [ad] 130 292 1
March 2, 1883[ae] 129 151
March 3, 1883[af] 130 150
Final voting share 44.5% 0.3% 0.3% 3.1% 0.3% 51.4%  
Beginning of the next Congress 196 3 6 2 1 117 325 1
  1. ^ In Maine's 2nd district: William P. Frye (R) resigned when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
  2. ^ In New York's 11th district: Levi P. Morton (R) resigned when he was appointed U.S. Minister to France.
  3. ^ In Michigan's 7th district: John Treadway Rich (R) was elected to replace Omar D. Conger (R). Conger had been reelected in 1880 but did not take his seat because he had been elected to the U.S. Senate.
  4. ^ In South Carolina's 2nd district: Michael P. O'Connor (D) died. He had been seated at the opening of Congress, but his election was still being contested when he died.
  5. ^ In South Carolina's 2nd district: Samuel Dibble (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created by the death of Michael P. O'Connor (D). The seat was the subject of an election contest, which was eventually resolved in favor of the Republican, Edmund W. M. Mackey, meaning that this vacancy never properly existed.
  6. ^ In New York's 22nd district: Warner Miller (R) resigned when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
  7. ^ In New York's 27th district: Elbridge G. Lapham (R) resigned when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
  8. ^ In Maine's 2nd district: Samuel Dibble (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when William P. Frye (R) resigned to enter the U.S. Senate.
  9. ^ In Rhode Island's 1st district: Nelson W. Aldrich (R) resigned when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
  10. ^ In New York's 11th district: Roswell P. Flower (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Levi P. Morton (R) resigned to become U.S. Minister to France. In New York's 22nd district: Charles R. Skinner (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Warner Miller (R) resigned to enter the U.S. Senate. In New York's 27th district: James Wolcott Wadsworth (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Elbridge G. Lapham (R) resigned to enter the U.S. Senate.
  11. ^ In New York's 9th district: John Hardy (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Fernando Wood (D) died before Congress convened. In Rhode Island's 1st district: Charles R. Skinner (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Nelson W. Aldrich (R) resigned to enter the U.S. Senate.
  12. ^ In Missouri's 2nd district: Thomas Allen (D) died.
  13. ^ In Mississippi's 6th district: James Ronald Chalmers (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, John R. Lynch (R).
  14. ^ In South Carolina's 2nd district: Samuel Dibble (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, Edmund W. M. Mackey (IR).
  15. ^ In Florida's 2nd district: Jesse J. Finley (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, Horatio Bisbee Jr. (R).
  16. ^ In Alabama's 8th district: Joseph Wheeler (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, William M. Lowe (G).
  17. ^ In Illinois's 5th district: Robert M. A. Hawk (R) died.
  18. ^ In South Carolina's 5th district: George D. Tillman (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, Robert Smalls (R).
  19. ^ In South Carolina's 5th district: Charles M. Shelley (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now declared vacant and called for a new election.
  20. ^ In Alabama's 8th district: William M. Lowe (G) died.
  21. ^ In Georgia's 8th district: Alexander H. Stephens (D) resigned when he was elected Governor of Georgia.
  22. ^ In Illinois's 5th district: Robert R. Hitt (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Robert M. A. Hawk (R) died. In South Carolina's 5th district: Charles M. Shelley (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created when the house voided his previous election.
  23. ^ In Ohio's 16th district: Jonathan T. Updegraff (R) died.
  24. ^ In Georgia's 8th district: Seaborn Reese (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Alexander H. Stephens (D) was elected Governor of Georgia.
  25. ^ In Missouri's 2nd district: James Henry McLean (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Thomas Allen (D) died.
  26. ^ In Indiana's 9th district: Godlove Stein Orth (R) died.
  27. ^ In Ohio's 16th district: Joseph D. Taylor (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Jonathan T. Updegraff (R) died.
  28. ^ In Alabama's 8th district: Joseph Wheeler (D) was elected to fill the vacancy created when William M. Lowe (G) died.
  29. ^ In Indiana's 9th district: Charles T. Doxey (R) was elected to fill the vacancy created when Godlove Stein Orth (R) died.
  30. ^ In North Carolina's 3rd district: John Williams Shackelford (D) died.
  31. ^ In Missouri's 3rd district: Richard Graham Frost (D) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, Gustavus Sessinghaus] (R).
  32. ^ In Iowa's 6th district: Marsena E. Cutts (R) had been seated pending the resolution of an election dispute, which the House now decided in favor of his opponent, John C. Cook] (D).