[2][1] Anti-Administration candidates decried perceived federal government overreach, including Davis' decision to suspend habeas corpus and impose martial law.

[1] In the end, the Pro-Administration faction sustained electoral losses but maintained their majorities in both chambers of the Confederate Congress.

[5] Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb of Alabama was so openly in favor of peace that he was not seated by the Confederate Congress.

[3][5] The elections were processed over six months due to the amount of Confederate territory occupied by the Union Army, in addition to all of the absentee ballots necessitated by the large refugee population.

[4] The results of the 1863 election indicating waning public confidence in the Davis administration, and enhanced the political strength of dissenters within the Confederacy.