Mapping Early American Elections

17th Congress: New York 1821

New York elected twenty-seven Democratic-Republicans to the Seventeenth Congress. Thirteen of the Republicans elected were members of an identifiable faction within the party. In New York, some candidates ran as Clintonians who supported internal improvements and soft money.

New York used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress, except Districts 1, 2, 12, 15, and 20, which each elected two members.

In 1821, a special election was held in which Charles Borland, Jr. was elected to replace Selah Tuthill, who had died.

In 1822, a special election was held in which Stephen Van Rensselaer was elected to replace Solomon Van Rensselaer, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Silas Wood	Republican Faction	3,961	27.1%	✓
1	Cadwallader D. Colden	Republican Faction	3,959	27%	✓
1	Peter Sharpe	Democratic-Republican	3,369	23%
1	Joshua Smith	Democratic-Republican	3,326	22.7%
2	John I. Morgan	Democratic-Republican	6,645	49.4%	✓
2	Churchill C. Cambrelleng	Democratic-Republican	3,970	29.5%	✓
2	Henry Eckford	Republican Faction	2,814	20.9%
3	Jeremiah H. Pierson	Democratic-Republican	1,863	52.8%	✓
3	John T. Smith	Republican Faction	1,330	37.7%
3	Peter S. Van Orden	Republican Faction	331	9.4%
4	William W. Van Wyck	Democratic-Republican	2,795	56.8%	✓
4	William Tabor	Republican Faction	2,125	43.2%
5	Walter Patterson	Republican Faction	3,467	57.8%	✓
5	Philip I. Schuyler	Democratic-Republican	2,524	42.1%
6	Selah Tuthill	Democratic-Republican	2,156	61.6%	✓
6	Samuel J. Wilkin	Republican Faction	1,341	38.3%
7	Charles H. Ruggles	Republican Faction	2,577	54.6%	✓
7	William Gillespie	Democratic-Republican	2,139	45.3%
8	Richard MacCarty	Republican Faction	2,592	58.8%	✓
8	Jacob Haight	Democratic-Republican	1,812	41.1%
9	Solomon Van Rensselaer	Republican Faction	2,393	57%	✓
9	Harmanus Bleecker	Democratic-Republican	1,798	42.8%
10	John D. Dickinson	Republican Faction	2,852	55.5%	✓
10	James L. Hogeboom	Democratic-Republican	2,181	42.4%
11	John W. Taylor	Republican Faction	2,344	53.3%	✓
11	Guert Van Schoonhoven	Democratic-Republican	2,043	46.5%
12	Reuben H. Walworth	Democratic-Republican	5,300	28.8%	✓
12	Nathaniel Pitcher	Democratic-Republican	4,951	26.9%	✓
12	John Crary	Republican Faction	4,151	22.6%
12	Ezra C. Gross	Republican Faction	3,964	21.6%
13	John Gebhard	Republican Faction	2,320	51%	✓
13	William Mann	Democratic-Republican	2,229	49%
14	Alfred Conkling	Republican Faction	2,672	52.4%	✓
14	John Herkimer	Democratic-Republican	2,426	47.6%
15	James Hawks	Democratic-Republican	5,363	28.5%	✓
15	Samuel Campbell	Democratic-Republican	5,222	27.7%	✓
15	Robert Monell	Republican Faction	4,184	22.2%
15	Alvan Stewart	Republican Faction	4,038	21.4%
16	Joseph Kirkland	Republican Faction	3,608	56.4%	✓
16	Nathan Williams	Democratic-Republican	2,774	43.4%
17	Thomas H. Hubbard	Democratic-Republican	3,235	51%	✓
17	David Woods	Republican Faction	3,103	48.9%
18	Micah Sterling	Republican Faction	3,568	52.2%	✓
18	Perley Keyes	Democratic-Republican	3,228	47.3%
19	Elisha Litchfield	Democratic-Republican	3,208	51.2%	✓
19	George Hall	Republican Faction	3,046	48.6%
20	William Rochester	Democratic-Republican	7,551	29.6%	✓
20	David Woodcock	Democratic-Republican	6,306	24.7%	✓
20	Jonathan Richmond	Republican Faction	6,104	23.9%
20	Herman Camp	Republican Faction	5,568	21.8%
21	Elijah Spencer	Democratic-Republican	4,798	49.6%	✓
21	Nathaniel Allen	Republican Faction	4,692	48.6%
22	Albert H. Tracey	Republican Faction	7,020	50.8%	✓
22	Benjamin Ellicott	Democratic-Republican	6,789	49.1%

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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