Mapping Early American Elections

16th Congress: Pennsylvania 1818

Pennsylvania elected six Federalists and seventeen Democratic-Republicans to the Sixteenth Congress.

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

Pennsylvania used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except District 1, which elected four members, and Districts 2, 3, 5, 6, and 10, which each elected two members. The votes cast in Warren County are included in the Venango County totals.

In 1820, a special election was held in which Thomas G. MacCullough was elected to replace David Fullerton, who had resigned from office.

In 1820, a special election was held in which Daniel Udree was elected to replace Joseph Hiester, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John Sergeant	Federalist	5,659	14.2%	✓
1	Joseph Hemphill	Federalist	5,658	14.2%	✓
1	Samuel Edwards	Federalist	5,485	13.8%	✓
1	Thomas Forrest	Federalist	5,242	13.2%	✓
1	Nicholas Biddle	Democratic-Republican	4,650	11.7%
1	John Connelly	Democratic-Republican	4,316	10.9%
1	George G. Leiper	Democratic-Republican	4,261	10.7%
1	Jacob Sommer	Democratic-Republican	4,237	10.7%
2	William Darlington	Democratic-Republican	4,811	27%	✓
2	Samuel Gross	Democratic-Republican	4,729	26.5%	✓
2	Levi Pawling	Federalist	4,178	23.4%
2	James Kelton	Federalist	4,117	23.1%
3	Jacob Hibshman	Democratic-Republican	4,477	26.6%	✓
3	James Wallace	Democratic-Republican	4,426	26.3%	✓
3	James Montgomery	Federalist	3,967	23.6%
3	John Whiteside	Federalist	3,937	23.4%
4	Jacob Hostetter	Democratic-Republican	2,967	unopposed	✓
5	David Fullerton	Democratic-Republican	4,435	30.1%	✓
5	Andrew Boden	Democratic-Republican	4,340	29.4%	✓
5	Alexander Cobean	Federalist	3,040	20.6%
5	John P. Helfenstein	Federalist	2,932	19.9%
6	Samuel Moore	Democratic-Republican	4,577	50.6%	✓
6	Thomas J. Rogers	Democratic-Republican	4,461	49.4%	✓
7	Joseph Hiester	Federalist	2,282	56.1%	✓
7	Jonathan Hudson	Democratic-Republican	1,785	43.9%
8	Robert Philson	Democratic-Republican	1,880	59.6%	✓
8	John A. Burd	Federalist	1,273	40.4%
9	William P. Maclay	Democratic-Republican	4,454	77.9%	✓
9	John Brown	Democratic-Republican	1,262	22.1%
10	John Murray	Democratic-Republican	7,423	50.4%	✓
10	George Dennison	Democratic-Republican	7,299	49.6%	✓
11	David Marchand	Democratic-Republican	2,470	52.6%	✓
11	James M. Kelly	Federalist	2,229	47.4%
12	Thomas Patterson	Democratic-Republican	1,503	65.7%	✓
12	Joseph Pentecost	Federalist	784	34.3%
13	Christian Tarr	Democratic-Republican			✓
14	Henry Baldwin	Federalist	2,305	55%	✓
14	Samuel Douglas	Democratic-Republican	1,884	45%
15	Robert Moore	Democratic-Republican	2,516	53.5%	✓
15	Thomas Wilson	Democratic-Republican	2,185	46.5%

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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