Mapping Early American Elections

16th Congress: New York 1818

New York elected two Federalists and twenty-five Democratic-Republicans to the Sixteenth Congress. Six of the Republicans elected were members of an identifiable faction within the party. In New York, some candidates ran as Clintonians who supported internal improvements and soft money.

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.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Silas Wood	Republican Faction	2,171	25.6%	✓
1	James Guion Jr.	Democratic-Republican	2,166	25.5%	✓
1	Ebenezer Sage	Democratic-Republican	2,085	24.6%
1	John Garretson	Republican Faction	1,992	23.5%
2	Henry Meigs	Democratic-Republican	3,226	35.7%	✓
2	Peter H. Wendover	Democratic-Republican	3,207	35.5%	✓
2	Barent Gardenier	Republican Faction	2,557	28.3%
3	Caleb Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	1,439	57.8%	✓
3	Benjamin Isaacs	Republican Faction	623	25%
3	Philip Van Cortlandt	Republican Faction	406	16.3%
4	Randall S. Street	Republican Faction	1,389	50.4%	✓
4	William H. Johnson	Democratic-Republican	1,356	49.2%
5	James S. Strong	Republican Faction	1,983	49.9%	✓
5	John J. Miller	Democratic-Republican	1,261	31.7%
5	Robert LeRoy Livingston	Republican Faction	732	18.4%
6	Walter Case	Democratic-Republican	1,289	97.7%	✓
7	Jacob H. DeWitt	Democratic-Republican	1,331	96.4%	✓
8	Robert Clark	Democratic-Republican	1,799	55.4%	✓
8	Jabez Bostwick	Federalist	1,442	44.4%
9	Solomon Van Rensselaer	Federalist	2,003	99.7%	✓
10	John D. Dickinson	Federalist	2,231	52.5%	✓
10	William MacManus	Democratic-Republican	2,002	47.2%
11	John W. Taylor	Democratic-Republican	2,282	72%	✓
11	James Thompson	Federalist	851	26.8%
12	Nathaniel Pitcher	Democratic-Republican	4,330	37.6%	✓
12	Ezra C. Gross	Democratic-Republican	3,743	32.5%	✓
12	David Russell	Federalist	2,399	20.8%
12	Halsey Rogers	Democratic-Republican	975	8.5%
13	Hermanus Peck	Democratic-Republican	2,136	55.9%	✓
13	Isaac H. Tiffany	Federalist	1,683	44.1%
14	John Fay	Democratic-Republican	2,038	56.7%	✓
14	John Veeder	Federalist	1,542	42.9%
15	Robert Monell	Republican Faction	2,903	26.2%	✓
15	Joseph S. Lyman	Republican Faction	2,849	25.7%	✓
15	Samuel Campbell	Democratic-Republican	2,689	24.2%
15	Edward Pratt	Democratic-Republican	2,604	23.5%
16	Henry Storrs	Republican Faction	2,332	93%	✓
16	Other candidates		176	6.5%
17	Aaron Hackley, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,934	96.9%	✓
18	William D. Ford	Democratic-Republican	2,933	73.5%	✓
18	Horatio Orvis	Republican Faction	991	24.8%
19	George Hall	Democratic-Republican	2,292	95.4%	✓
20	Jonathan Richmond	Democratic-Republican	5,548	49.5%	✓
20	Caleb Baker	Democratic-Republican	5,478	48.9%	✓
21	Nathaniel Allen	Democratic-Republican	10,288	50.4%	✓
21	Albert H. Tracey	Democratic-Republican	9,181	45%	✓

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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