Mapping Early American Elections

7th Congress: Pennsylvania 1800

Pennsylvania elected three Federalists and ten Democratic-Republicans to the Seventh 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 1801, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Issac Van Horne was elected to replace Peter Muhlenberg, who had resigned from office after his election to the U.S. Senate.

In 1801, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican John Steward was elected to replace Thomas Hartley, who died while in office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	William Jones	Democratic-Republican	1,698	50.2%	✓
1	Francis Gurney	Federalist	1,684	49.8%
2	Michael Leib	Democratic-Republican	2,744	77.8%	✓
2	John Lardner	Federalist	783	22.2%
3	John Hemphill	Federalist	2,732	53.3%	✓
3	Joseph Shallcross	Democratic-Republican	2,389	46.7%
4	Peter Muhlenberg	Democratic-Republican	6,684	34.4%	✓
4	Robert Brown	Democratic-Republican	6,682	34.4%	✓
4	John Arndt	Federalist	3,028	15.6%
4	Cadwallader Evans	Federalist	3,026	15.6%
5	Joseph Hiester	Democratic-Republican	3,018	83.1%	✓
5	Rosewell Wells	Federalist	611	16.8%
6	John Andre Hanna	Democratic-Republican	4,295	74.6%	✓
6	Samuel Maclay	Federalist	1,460	25.4%
7	Thomas Boude	Federalist	2,274	54.1%	✓
7	John Whitehill	Democratic-Republican	1,927	45.9%
8	John Stewart	Democratic-Republican	2,263	54.8%	✓
8	John Edie	Federalist	1,866	45.2%
9	Andrew Gregg	Democratic-Republican	2,383	72.6%	✓
9	David Mitchell	Federalist	901	27.4%
10	Henry Woods	Federalist	2,096	51.1%	✓
10	David Bard	Democratic-Republican	2,006	48.9%
11	John Smilie	Democratic-Republican	2,182	unopposed	✓
12	Albert Gallatin	Democratic-Republican	4,273	72.9%	✓
12	Presley Neville	Federalist	1,590	27.1%

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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7th Congress: Pennsylvania 1800

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