This provides a summary of the results of elections to the United States House of Representatives from the elections held in 1824 to 1854. This time period roughly corresponds to the Second Party System of the United States. For the purposes of counting partisan divisions in the U.S. House of Representatives, "Independent Democrats" and "Independent Whigs" have been included in the member tallies of the Democrats and the Whigs, respectively, in the table below, with the details of such circumstances included in the accompanying 'Note'. For more detailed results of each election, see the main page for that election. Information about the popular vote in early elections is not available as records of the popular vote were not kept. Parties with a majority (or a plurality, in the case of 1848