# 1822 Midterm Elections Second-term [[James Monroe]] administration midterm. The **one-party period** — Democratic-Republican dominance with no organized national opposition — was at its peak. Congressional contests increasingly featured intra-party factional competition rather than inter-party rivalry, prefiguring the four-way Democratic-Republican fracture in the [[1824 Presidential Election]]. ## Result - **House:** Democratic-Republicans held overwhelming majority of ~187 of 213 seats in the 18th Congress - **Senate:** Democratic-Republicans dominant - **Chambers flipped:** None - **Net change:** Intra-party factional sorting visible ## Notable - The 18th Congress (1823-1825) was the venue for [[James Monroe]]'s December 1823 annual message articulating the **[[Monroe Doctrine]]** - [[Henry Clay]] was reelected Speaker of the House - The 1824 presidential election's four-way Democratic-Republican factional fracture (Jackson, [[J.Q. Adams]], Crawford, Clay) was substantially visible in the 18th Congress's internal factional positioning ## Connections - [[James Monroe]] — Sitting president.