Mapping Early American Elections

5th Congress: Pennsylvania 1796

Pennsylvania elected seven Democratic-Republicans and six Federalists to the Fifth Congress.

Pennsylvania continued to use a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except District 4, which elected two members.

In October 1798, Pennsylvania held a special election in which Robert Wain was elected to replace John Swanick, who died in office. In October 1798, Pennsylvania held a special election in which Robert Brown was elected to replace Samuel Sitgreaves, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John Swanwick	Democratic-Republican	1,502	51.2%	✓
1	Edward Tilghman	Federalist	1,432	48.8%
2	Blair MacClenachan	Democratic-Republican	1,182	56.5%	✓
2	Robert Waln	Federalist	910	43.5%
3	Richard Thomas	Federalist	1,282	52.9%	✓
3	William Gibbons	Democratic-Republican	1,143	47.1%
4	Samuel Sitgreaves	Federalist	3,752	62.9%	✓
4	John Chapman	Federalist	2,214	37.1%	✓
5	George Ege	Federalist	2,028	56.9%	✓
5	Joseph Hiester	Democratic-Republican	1,538	43.1%
6	John A. Hanna	Democratic-Republican			✓
7	John W. Kittera	Federalist	1,679	95.6%	✓
8	Thomas Hartley	Federalist	1,142	unopposed	✓
9	Andrew Gregg	Democratic-Republican	1,141	53.8%	✓
9	William Irvine	Federalist	678	32%
9	James Wallace	Federalist	168	7.9%
9	Other candidates		135	6.4%
10	David Bard	Democratic-Republican			✓
11	William Findley	Democratic-Republican	2,090	79.3%	✓
11	James Findlay	Federalist	546	20.7%
12	Albert Gallatin	Democratic-Republican	2,522	61.7%	✓
12	John Woods	Federalist	1,079	26.4%
12	Thomas Stokeley	Federalist	486	11.9%

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: Pennsylvania 1796

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