Mapping Early American Elections

9th Congress: New York 1804

New York elected two Federalists and fifteen Democratic-Republicans to the Ninth Congress.

New York used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress, except Districts 2 and 3 (New York City and Brooklyn), which voted together as a single district and elected two members of Congress.

In 1805, a special election was held in which George Clinton, Jr. was elected to replace Samuel L. Mitchell, who had resigned from office after his appointment to the Senate.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Eliphalet Wickes	Democratic-Republican	1,052	36.3%	✓
1	Samuel Riker	Democratic-Republican	1,044	36%
1	Joshua Smith	Federalist	801	27.6%
2	Samuel L. Mitchell	Democratic-Republican	4,056	27.8%	✓
2	Daniel D. Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	4,040	27.7%	✓
2	Nicholas Fish	Federalist	3,245	22.2%
2	Wynant Van Zandt	Federalist	3,236	22.2%
4	Philip Van Cortlandt	Democratic-Republican	1,542	64.4%	✓
4	John Herring	Democratic-Republican	838	35%
5	John Blake, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,390	62.7%	✓
5	David M. Westcott	Federalist	825	37.2%
6	Daniel C. Verplanck	Democratic-Republican	2,291	57.9%	✓
6	Benjamin Akin	Federalist	1,659	41.9%
7	Martin G. Schuneman	Democratic-Republican	2,361	59.9%	✓
7	Garitt Abeel	Federalist	1,579	40.1%
8	Henry W. Livingston	Federalist	1,951	54.8%	✓
8	Edward P. Livingston	Democratic-Republican	1,610	45.2%
9	Killian K. Van Rensselaer	Federalist	1,894	56.3%	✓
9	David MacCarty	Democratic-Republican	1,465	43.5%
10	Josiah Masters	Democratic-Republican	1,850	55.3%	✓
10	Jonathan Brown	Federalist	1,490	44.5%
11	Peter Sailly	Democratic-Republican	2,845	95%	✓
12	David Thomas	Democratic-Republican	2,367	70%	✓
12	Reuben Skinner	Federalist	1,001	29.6%
13	Thomas Sammons	Democratic-Republican	3,290	99.5%	✓
14	John Russell	Democratic-Republican	2,512	84.2%	✓
14	Other candidates		293	9.1%
14	Benjamin Gilbert	Federalist	178	6%
15	Nathan Williams	Democratic-Republican	3,633	57.3%	✓
15	Thomas R. Gold	Federalist	2,696	42.5%
16	Uri Tracy	Democratic-Republican	3,222	61.7%	✓
16	Edward Edwards	Federalist	1,911	36.6%
17	Silas Halsey	Democratic-Republican	2,167	39.9%	✓
17	Nathaniel W. Howell	Federalist	2,006	36.9%
17	Joseph Grover	Democratic-Republican	599	11%
17	Peter Hughes	Democratic-Republican	576	10.6%

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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