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Campaigning was disrupted around the country. In Nebraska, for instance, authorities lifted a ban on public gatherings in early November 1918 and permitted politicians to campaign five days prior to polls opening. The turnout was 40%, which was unusually low for a midterm election (turnout was at 52% and 50% in the 1910 and 1914 midterm elections).
The 1918 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 66th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 5, 1918, while Maine held theirs on September 9. They occurred in the middle of President Woodrow Wilson's second term.
The 1918 United States Senate elections were held throughout 1918, [a] the midpoint of Woodrow Wilson's second term as president.This was the first election since the ratification of the 17th Amendment that all 32 Class 2 senators were subject to direct or popular election, making them the final class under the old system of being selected by state legislatures.
1918 United States elections; United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1918; 1918 California gubernatorial election; 1918 Minnesota gubernatorial election; 1918 New York state election; United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 1918; United States Senate election in South Carolina, 1918
The 1918 United States Senate election in Michigan took place on November 5, 1918. Incumbent Republican Senator William Alden Smith did not seek re-election to a third term in office. In the race to succeed him, Republican former Secretary of the Navy Truman Handy Newberry defeated the automobile industrialist Henry Ford .
United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1918, in 32 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 5, 1918. Elections took place on September 9 in Maine . Results
The 1918 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 5, 1918. [1] Incumbent Democrat J. Hamilton Lewis lost reelection to Republican Medill McCormick. The primaries and general election coincided with those for House and those for state elections. [1] The primaries were held September 11, 1918. [1]
The election was held mid-way through President Woodrow Wilson's second term in office. Following the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania and two years of debate, the United States entered World War I with a declaration of war on Germany on April 6, 1917, and spent much of 1917 and 1918 building up a sufficient fighting force to contribute ...