Mapping Early American Elections

11th Congress: Pennsylvania 1808

Pennsylvania elected six Federalists and twelve Democratic-Republicans to the Eleventh Congress.

The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns in some areas.

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. The votes cast in Warren County are included in the Venango County totals.

In 1809, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Adam Seybert was elected to replace Benjamin Say, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Benjamin Say	Democratic-Republican	7,598	18.5%	✓
1	John Porter	Democratic-Republican	7,589	18.5%	✓
1	William Anderson	Democratic-Republican	7,559	18.4%	✓
1	Joseph Hemphill	Federalist	6,123	14.9%
1	Derick Peterson	Federalist	6,098	14.9%
1	Charles W. Hare	Federalist	6,052	14.8%
2	Robert Brown	Democratic-Republican	9,218	16.9%	✓
2	John Ross	Federalist	9,167	16.8%	✓
2	William Milnor	Federalist	9,095	16.7%	✓
2	John Pugh	Democratic-Republican	9,090	16.7%
2	John Hahn	Democratic-Republican	9,026	16.6%
2	Rosewell Welles	Federalist	8,941	16.4%
3	Matthias Richards	Federalist	10,652	17.1%	✓
3	Daniel Heister	Federalist	10,625	17.1%	✓
3	Robert Jenkins	Federalist	10,524	16.9%	✓
3	John Whitehill	Democratic-Republican	10,216	16.4%
3	Roger Davis	Democratic-Republican	10,161	16.3%
3	William Whitman	Democratic-Republican	10,121	16.2%
4	Robert Whitehill	Democratic-Republican	8,807	36.7%	✓
4	David Baird	Democratic-Republican	8,774	36.6%	✓
4	John Glonninger	Federalist	3,228	13.5%
4	William Alexander, Sr.	Federalist	3,165	13.2%
5	George Smith	Democratic-Republican	7,215	82.3%	✓
5	John Bull	Federalist	1,549	17.7%
6	William Crawford	Democratic-Republican	3,506	52.4%	✓
6	James Kelly	Federalist	3,188	47.6%
7	John Rea	Democratic-Republican	3,496	61.5%	✓
7	Andrew Dunlop	Federalist	2,191	38.5%
8	William Findley	Federalist	2,871	45.6%	✓
8	John Kirkpatrick	Democratic-Republican	1,732	27.5%
8	Robert Philson	Democratic-Republican	1,647	26.2%
9	John Smilie	Democratic-Republican	3,183	67.1%	✓
9	Thomas Meason	Federalist	1,560	32.9%
10	Aaron Lyle	Democratic-Republican	3,425	76.5%	✓
10	John Hamilton	Federalist	1,053	23.5%
11	Samuel Smith	Democratic-Republican	6,206	68.3%	✓
11	Alexander W. Foster	Federalist	2,885	31.7%

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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