Mapping Early American Elections

2nd Congress: Pennsylvania 1791

Pennsylvania sent six Federalists and two Democratic-Republicans to the Second Congress.

For this election Pennsylvania changed from a state-wide at-large system to a district system for electing members to Congress.

Votes tallied for the city of Philadelphia are shown separately, and they are in addition to the votes reported for Philadelphia County.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Thomas Fitzsimons	Federalist	1,291	85.1%	✓
1	Charles Thompson	Democratic-Republican	226	14.9%
2	Frederick A. Muhlenberg	Federalist			✓
3	Israel Jacobs	Federalist	1,878	54.2%	✓
3	Peter Muhlenberg	Democratic-Republican	1,585	45.8%
4	Daniel Hiester	Federalist		unopposed	✓
5	John W. Kittera	Federalist		unopposed	✓
6	Andrew Gregg	Democratic-Republican	3,437	51.2%	✓
6	John Allison	Federalist	1,229	18.3%
6	James MacLean	Federalist	728	10.9%
6	Thomas Johnston	Federalist	692	10.3%
6	William Montgomery	Democratic-Republican	623	9.3%
7	Thomas Hartley	Federalist	2,908	71.1%	✓
7	William Irvine	Democratic-Republican	1,180	28.9%
8	William Findley	Democratic-Republican	2,899	65.6%	✓
8	John Woods	Federalist	1,517	34.4%

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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2nd Congress: Pennsylvania 1791

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