Mapping Early American Elections

7th Congress: New York 1800

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

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

In November 1801, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Theodorus Bailey was elected to replace Thomas Tillotson, who had resigned from office.

In November 1801, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican John P. Van Ness was elected to replace John Bird, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John Smith	Democratic-Republican	2,268	54.6%	✓
1	Silas Wood	Federalist	1,874	45.1%
2	Samuel L. Mitchell	Democratic-Republican	2,180	50.9%	✓
2	Jacob Morton	Federalist	2,091	48.8%
3	Philip Van Cortlandt	Democratic-Republican	2,070	57.3%	✓
3	Samuel Bayard	Federalist	1,400	38.7%
4	Lucas Elmendorf	Democratic-Republican	3,305	59.5%	✓
4	John Hathorn	Federalist	2,026	36.5%
5	Thomas Tilloston	Democratic-Republican	1,991	61.5%	✓
5	David Brooks	Federalist	1,244	38.4%
6	John Bird	Federalist	2,456	53.3%	✓
6	Henry W. Livingston	Federalist	2,085	45.2%
7	David Thomas	Democratic-Republican	2,987	50.3%	✓
7	John Williams	Federalist	2,810	47.4%
8	Killian K. Van Rensselaer	Federalist	1,577	53.4%	✓
8	George Tiffany	Federalist	1,113	37.7%
8	Henry Glen	Federalist	258	8.7%
9	Benjamin Walker	Federalist	4,241	63.9%	✓
9	Jacob Eaker	Democratic-Republican	2,274	34.3%
10	Thomas Morris	Federalist	3,266	53.8%	✓
10	William Stuart	Democratic-Republican	2,377	39.2%
10	Other candidates		428	6.7%

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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7th Congress: New York 1800

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