1802–03 United States House of Representatives elections

The 1802–03 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 26, 1802 (in New York) and December 14, 1803 (in New Jersey). Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives, either before or after the first session of the 8th United States Congress convened on October 17, 1803. They occurred during President Thomas Jefferson's first term in office.

1802–03 United States House of Representatives elections
April 26, 1802 – December 14, 1803
All 142 seats in the United States House of Representatives
72 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Nathaniel Macon John Cotton Smith
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Leader's seat North Carolina 6th Connecticut at-large
Last election 68 seats 38 seats
Seats won 103 39
Seat change 35 1
Results:
     Federalist hold      Federalist gain
     Democratic-Republican hold      Democratic-Republican gain
     Undistricted
Speaker before election

Nathaniel Macon
Democratic-Republican

 Elected Speaker

Nathaniel Macon
Democratic-Republican

With the addition of the new state of Ohio's representatives, and the congressional reapportionment based on the 1800 United States census, the size of the House increased from 106 to 142 seats. The greatest population growth revealed in the 1800 census was in territories that constituted the western regions of the country at the time, a tremendous boost for Democratic-Republican candidates. Nearly all of the new seats created in the reapportionment went to Democratic-Republicans, closely aligned as they were with the agrarian interests of Western farmers. As a result, the Democratic-Republicans won the largest proportion of seats that either they or the competing Federalists had ever been able to secure in any earlier Congress, a supermajority greater than two-thirds of the total number.

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