Mapping Early American Elections

9th Congress: Pennsylvania 1804

Pennsylvania elected one Federalist and seventeen Democratic-Republicans to the Ninth Congress.

Pennsylvania used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except District 4, which elected two members, and Districts 1, 2, and 3, which each elected three members. The votes cast in Erie, Mercer, Venango, and Warren counties are included in the Crawford County totals.

In 1805, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Robert Whitehill was elected to replace J. A. Hanna, who died while in office.

In 1805, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Samuel Smith was elected to replace John B. C. Lucas, who had resigned from office.

In 1806, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican John Porter was elected to replace Michael Leib, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Joseph Clay	Democratic-Republican	7,427	33.6%	✓
1	Jacob Richards	Democratic-Republican	7,021	31.7%	✓
1	Michael Leib	Democratic-Republican	3,992	18%	✓
1	William Penrose	Federalist	3,685	16.7%
2	John Pugh	Democratic-Republican	6,701	32.1%	✓
2	Frederick Conrad	Democratic-Republican	6,596	31.6%	✓
2	Robert Brown	Democratic-Republican	4,532	21.7%	✓
2	John Ross	Republican Faction	2,710	13%
3	Christian Lower	Democratic-Republican	9,079	33.2%	✓
3	John Whitehill	Democratic-Republican	6,309	23.1%	✓
3	Isaac Anderson	Democratic-Republican	6,287	23%	✓
3	Thomas Boude	Federalist	2,829	10.4%
3	Isaac Wayne	Federalist	2,814	10.3%
4	David Bard	Democratic-Republican	3,247	34.6%	✓
4	John A. Hanna	Democratic-Republican	3,031	32.3%	✓
4	Oliver Pollack	Democratic-Republican	1,600	17%
4	Robert Whitehill	Democratic-Republican	1,514	16.1%
5	Andrew Gregg	Democratic-Republican	3,318	unopposed	✓
6	James Kelly	Federalist	1,705	58.5%	✓
6	John Stewart	Democratic-Republican	1,211	41.5%
7	John Rea	Democratic-Republican	1,494	99.6%	✓
8	William Findley	Democratic-Republican			✓
9	John Smilie	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
10	John Hamilton	Democratic-Republican	868	100%	✓
11	John B. Lucas	Democratic-Republican	2,526	64.8%	✓
11	James O’Hara	Federalist	1,373	35.2%

In most cases, only candidates who received more than 5 percent of the vote in a district are reported. Other candidates are reported as a group, but only if they in aggregate received more than 5 percent of the vote. In addition, percentages for each district may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. The term Dissenting Republican includes various breakaway factions of the Democratic-Republican party.

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9th Congress: Pennsylvania 1804

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