Mapping Early American Elections

8th Congress: Pennsylvania 1802

Pennsylvania elected eighteen Democratic-Republicans to the Eighth Congress.

Following the 1800 Census, Pennsylvania gained five seats in the House of Representatives.

Pennsylvania used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except District 4, which elected two members, and Districts 1, 2, and 3, which each elected three members.

In 1804, a special election was held in which John Hoge was elected to replace William Hoge, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Joseph Clay	Democratic-Republican	5,216	21.1%	✓
1	Jacob Richards	Democratic-Republican	5,165	20.9%	✓
1	Michael Leib	Democratic-Republican	4,773	19.3%	✓
1	George Latimer	Federalist	3,109	12.6%
1	Peter Brown	Federalist	3,082	12.4%
1	Jonas Preston	Federalist	3,061	12.4%
2	Robert Brown	Democratic-Republican	11,456	33%	✓
2	Isaac Van Horne	Democratic-Republican	10,697	30.8%	✓
2	Frederick Conrad	Democratic-Republican	6,205	17.9%	✓
2	Samuel Sitgreaves	Federalist	3,939	11.4%
2	Other candidates		2,396	6.9%
3	John Whitehall	Democratic-Republican	9,396	22.1%	✓
3	Isaac Anderson	Democratic-Republican	9,365	22%	✓
3	Joseph Hiester	Democratic-Republican	9,236	21.7%	✓
3	Jacob Bower	Federalist	4,932	11.6%
3	Joseph Hemphill	Federalist	4,853	11.4%
3	Thomas Boude	Federalist	4,829	11.3%
4	John A. Hanna	Democratic-Republican	6,110	50.5%	✓
4	David Bard	Democratic-Republican	5,970	49.3%	✓
5	Andrew Gregg	Democratic-Republican	4,258	unopposed	✓
6	John Stewart	Democratic-Republican	2,285	56.7%	✓
6	John Edie	Federalist	1,748	43.3%
7	John Rea	Democratic-Republican	2,173	66.6%	✓
7	Henry Woods	Federalist	941	28.9%
8	William Findley	Democratic-Republican	1,531	53.9%	✓
8	Jacob Painter	Democratic-Republican	1,312	46.1%
9	John Smilie	Democratic-Republican	2,718	unopposed	✓
10	William Hoge	Democratic-Republican	2,300	unopposed	✓
11	John B.C. Lucas	Democratic-Republican	2,169	48.9%	✓
11	John Wilkins, Jr.	Federalist	1,625	36.7%
11	Alexander W. Foster	Federalist	639	14.4%

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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