Mapping Early American Elections

5th Congress: New York 1796

New York elected six Federalists and four Democratic-Republicans to the Fifth Congress.

New York used the district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Jonathan Havens	Democratic-Republican	1,259	66%	✓
1	Selah Strong	Federalist	648	34%
2	Edward Livingston	Democratic-Republican	2,362	56.6%	✓
2	James Watson	Federalist	1,812	43.4%
3	Philip Van Cortlandt	Democratic-Republican	1,016	50.3%	✓
3	Samuel Haight	Federalist	1,003	49.7%
4	Lucas Elmendorf	Democratic-Republican	1,937	56.1%	✓
4	Conrad E. Elmendorf	Federalist	1,514	43.9%
5	David Brooks	Federalist	1,220	54.5%	✓
5	Theodorus Bailey	Democratic-Republican	1,018	45.5%
6	Hezekiah L. Hosmer	Federalist	1,036	57.2%	✓
6	John P. Van Ness	Democratic-Republican	758	41.9%
7	Henry Glenn	Federalist	480	77.7%	✓
7	Peter Swart	Democratic-Republican	138	22.3%
8	John E. Van Alen	Federalist	1,680	59.3%	✓
8	John Woodworth	Democratic-Republican	1,155	40.7%
9	John Williams	Federalist	1,318	62.2%	✓
9	James Gordon	Federalist	575	27.1%
9	Douw I. Fonda	Democratic-Republican	209	9.9%
10	James Cochran	Federalist	2,993	49.8%	✓
10	William Cooper	Federalist	2,975	49.5%

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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5th Congress: New York 1796

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