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The make-up of the United States House of Representatives every two years since 1789. The last Congress included is the 112th Congress, which completes its term in 2013.

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• congress - The number of that year's Congress

• yearStart - Starting year

• yearEnd - Ending year

• seats - Total number of seats

• p1 - Name of the first political party

• np1 - Number of seats held by the first political party

• p2 - Name of the second political party

• np2 - Number of seats held by the second political party

• other - Other

• vac - Vacancy

• del - Delegate

• res - Resident commissioner

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Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives Party Divisions: http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/partyDiv.html Data for Congresses 1-111 was recorded from the website above on November 1st, 2010. It appears this page was later moved to http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/partyDiv.aspx (no longer available) where data for Congress 112 was recorded on April 21, 2011.

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