Talk:1924 United States House of Representatives elections

Fiorello La Guardia party
The party leaders section lists Fiorello La Guardia as a member of a Labor party. The Complete Results section lists him as Progressive. According to the article on La Guardia, he was a member of the American Labor Party, but not until 1936; the article doesn't say anything about him running as a Progressive. The 1922 and 1926 articles list La Guardia as a Republican. This NYT obituary says "in 1924, and was re-elected to the House as the nominee of the Socialist and Progressive parties." There's confusion about what's going on. If someone can bring clarity, that would be great. Thanks, SchreiberBike (talk) 21:55, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * La Guardia didn't ran as a Progressive insofar as he was listed on the Socialist and Progressive ballot lines, both of which listed La Follette for President. I'm not familiar enough with the circumstances though, off the top of my head anyway, whether he lost the Republican nomination that year or opted not to seek it. I'll look into it again more later. --Ariostos (talk) 14:47, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Note On The Vote Numbers

 * Just for Transparency; the current data that I am working with is coming from the various PDFs you can find on history.house.gov as listed here. Looking at the PDF for any given year I then tally the votes by Party, by State, and from there I get the totals that I've placed in the infobox. There are two concerns I have with these numbers however. The first are the At-Large Districts, in which case I have adopted the rule that the highest number of votes in the State (either the total of the Party's candidates among all the #'d Districts, or the top At-Large candidate) represents the Party's vote in that State, akin to how we represent the vote for Presidential elections when voters were asked to vote for the Electors individually. The only problem with that method currently is that the PDF's don't list the total vote in any given race, and as the At-Large races have multiple seats with the voters voting multiple times, it isn't possible to discern a hard total. The second is that the Party loyalties of some candidates are not particularly clear. Normally I would be able to check them against other sources available to me but given the present closures of the libraries, well that isn't an option. Chances are though that I will have to revisit some of these numbers and adjust them at a later date, possibly two months time given current trends. --Ariostos (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2020 (UTC)