The U.S. House election, 1922 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1922 which occurred in the middle of President Warren G. Harding's term. The Republican Party lost a net of 77 seats to the opposition Democratic Party, particularly in some of the traditionally Democratic areas that had been carried by the wave of 1920. An internal split briefly undermined Republican leadership, as progressives and conservatives once again clashed. With Senator Bob La Follette as their unofficial leader, new progressives formed a somewhat small but highly vocal group. Republican troubles were extended when older era progressives who had supported Theodore Roosevelt failed to completely embrace the arguments of La Follette progressives. Republicans nonetheless retained a narrow