Mapping Early American Elections

11th Congress: New York 1808

New York elected eight Federalists and nine Democratic-Republicans to the Eleventh Congress.

New York used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except Districts 2 and 6, which each elected two members.

In 1810, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Samuel L. Mitchell was elected to replace William Denning, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Ebenezer Sage	Democratic-Republican	1,645	38.7%	✓
1	Benjamin B. Blydenburgh	Federalist	1,627	38.3%
1	John W. Seaman	Democratic-Republican	975	22.9%
2	William Denning	Democratic-Republican	6,203	28.5%	✓
2	Gurdon S. Mumford	Democratic-Republican	6,185	28.4%	✓
2	William Henderson	Federalist	4,667	21.5%
2	Barent Gardenier	Federalist	4,660	21.4%
3	Jonathan Fisk	Democratic-Republican	2,422	52.6%	✓
3	Richard Hatfield	Federalist	2,123	46.1%
4	James Emott	Federalist	1,606	73%	✓
4	Robert Johnson	Democratic-Republican	556	25.3%
5	Barent Gardenier	Federalist	2,677	56.3%	✓
5	John Dill	Democratic-Republican	2,059	43.3%
6	Herman Knickerbacker	Federalist	6,471	26.1%	✓
6	Robert LeRoy Livingston	Federalist	6,432	26%	✓
6	James J. Van Alen	Democratic-Republican	5,922	23.9%
6	James L. Hogeboom	Democratic-Republican	5,903	23.8%
7	Killian K. Van Rensselaer	Federalist	2,685	65.1%	✓
7	George Merchant	Democratic-Republican	1,437	34.8%
8	John Thompson	Democratic-Republican	2,488	64.2%	✓
8	William Bailey	Federalist	1,305	33.7%
9	Thomas Sammons	Federalist	3,642	63.2%	✓
9	John Herkimer	Democratic-Republican	2,116	36.7%
10	John Nicholson	Democratic-Republican	2,352	52.7%	✓
10	Moss Kent	Federalist	2,019	45.2%
11	Thomas R. Gold	Federalist	3,821	55.6%	✓
11	Joshua Hatheway	Democratic-Republican	2,959	43.1%
12	Erastus Root	Democratic-Republican	2,205	49.3%	✓
12	Gabriel North	Federalist	1,634	36.6%
12	Ebenezer Foote	Federalist	619	13.8%
13	Uri Tracy	Democratic-Republican	3,229	68.6%	✓
13	Isaac Foote	Federalist	941	20%
13	Vincent Mathews	Federalist	494	10.5%
14	Vincent Matthews	Federalist	1,877	39.9%	✓
14	John Harris	Democratic-Republican	1,163	24.7%
14	Matthew Carpenter	Democratic-Republican	978	20.8%
14	Joseph Glover	Democratic-Republican	649	13.8%
15	Peter B. Porter	Democratic-Republican			✓

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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