Mapping Early American Elections

15th Congress: New York 1816

New York elected five Federalists and twenty-two Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress.

New York used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress, except Districts 1, 2, 12, 15, 20, and 21, which each elected two members.

In 1817, a special election was held in which James Tallmadge, Jr. was elected to replace Henry B. Lee, who had died.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	George Townsend	Democratic-Republican	3,798	26.9%	✓
1	Tredwell Scudder	Democratic-Republican	3,781	26.7%	✓
1	Nathaniel Smith	Federalist	3,268	23.1%
1	Samuel Jones, Jr.	Federalist	3,267	23.1%
2	William Irving	Democratic-Republican	5,225	29%	✓
2	Peter H. Wendover	Democratic-Republican	5,199	28.9%	✓
2	Josiah Hoffman	Federalist	3,792	21.1%
2	Isaac Ely	Federalist	3,771	20.9%
3	Caleb Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	1,787	56.7%	✓
3	Abraham Odell	Federalist	1,347	42.7%
4	Henry B. Lee	Democratic-Republican	2,530	52.6%	✓
4	Henry A. Livingston	Federalist	2,271	47.2%
5	Philip Schuyler	Federalist	3,154	58.8%	✓
5	James Van Alen	Democratic-Republican	2,198	41%
6	James W. Wilkin	Democratic-Republican	1,613	55.5%	✓
6	James Burt	Federalist	1,295	44.5%
7	Josiah Hasbrouck	Democratic-Republican	1,826	51.7%	✓
7	John Sudam	Federalist	1,703	48.2%
8	Dorrance Kirtland	Democratic-Republican	2,372	55.5%	✓
8	Samuel Sherwood	Federalist	1,902	44.5%
9	Rensseler Westerloo	Federalist	2,180	56.1%	✓
9	Elisha Jenkins	Democratic-Republican	1,424	36.7%
9	John Lovett	Federalist	277	7.1%
10	John P. Cushman	Federalist	2,573	54.9%	✓
10	Thomas Turner	Democratic-Republican	2,107	44.9%
11	John W. Taylor	Democratic-Republican	1,804	53.5%	✓
11	Elisha Powell	Federalist	1,564	46.4%
12	John Palmer	Democratic-Republican	4,713	26.9%	✓
12	John Savage	Democratic-Republican	4,597	26.2%	✓
12	Henry Ross	Federalist	4,106	23.4%
12	Zebulon R. Shiperd	Federalist	4,072	23.2%
13	Thomas Lawyer	Democratic-Republican	2,145	54.9%	✓
13	William Beekman	Federalist	1,763	45.1%
14	John Herkimer	Democratic-Republican	2,579	50.8%	✓
14	Richard Van Horn	Federalist	2,495	49.2%
15	Isaac Williams	Democratic-Republican	5,027	26.6%	✓
15	John Drake	Democratic-Republican	5,019	26.5%	✓
15	James Clapp	Federalist	4,416	23.4%
15	James Hyde	Federalist	4,416	23.4%
16	Henry R. Storrs	Federalist	2,818	52.2%	✓
16	Nathan Williams	Democratic-Republican	2,540	47.1%
17	Thomas H. Hubbard	Democratic-Republican	3,128	51.4%	✓
17	Simeon Ford	Federalist	2,938	48.3%
18	David A. Ogden	Federalist	2,391	50.4%	✓
18	Ela Collins	Democratic-Republican	2,349	49.5%
19	James Porter	Democratic-Republican	2,789	55.2%	✓
19	James Geddes	Federalist	2,244	44.4%
20	Daniel Cruger	Democratic-Republican	6,361	35.4%	✓
20	Oliver Comstock	Democratic-Republican	5,142	28.6%	✓
20	Elijah Miller	Federalist	2,597	14.5%
20	Benjamin Johnson	Federalist	1,814	10.1%
20	Enos T. Throop	Democratic-Republican	1,271	7.1%
21	Benjamin Ellicott	Democratic-Republican	8,794	29.4%	✓
21	John C. Spencer	Democratic-Republican	8,053	26.9%	✓
21	Philip Church	Federalist	6,152	20.6%
21	Graham Newell	Federalist	6,071	20.3%

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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