Mapping Early American Elections

18th Congress: Pennsylvania 1822

Pennsylvania elected eight Federalists and eighteen Democratic-Republicans to the Eighteenth Congress.

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

Following the 1820 Census, Pennsylvania gained three more seats in the House of Representatives.

Pennsylvania used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except Districts 4 and 9, which each elected three members, and Districts 7, 8, 11, and 16, which each elected two members. The votes cast in Lycoming, Potter, and McKean counties were reported as one unit.

In 1824, a special election was held in which George Wolf was elected to replace Thomas J. Rogers, who had resigned from office.

In 1824, a special election was held in which Alexander Thomson was elected to replace John Tod, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Samuel Breck	Federalist	1,083	52.5%	✓
1	Joel B. Sutherland	Democratic-Republican	892	43.3%
2	Joseph Hemphill	Federalist	2,268	58.9%	✓
2	George M. Dallas	Democratic-Republican	1,367	35.5%
2	Other candidates		218	5.6%
3	Daniel H. Miller	Democratic-Republican	2,891	65.8%	✓
3	Thomas Forrest	Federalist	1,500	34.2%
4	James Buchanan	Federalist	7,021	18.7%	✓
4	Isaac Wayne	Federalist	6,870	18.3%	✓
4	Samuel Edwards	Federalist	6,839	18.2%	✓
4	William Darlington	Democratic-Republican	5,723	15.2%
4	William Anderson	Democratic-Republican	5,646	15%
4	Jacob Hibshman	Democratic-Republican	5,539	14.7%
5	Philip S. Markley	Democratic-Republican	2,022	52.5%	✓
5	John Hughes	Federalist	1,829	47.5%
6	Robert Harris	Democratic-Republican	2,476	54.6%	✓
6	John Phillips	Federalist	2,057	45.4%
7	Daniel Udree	Democratic-Republican	4,183	28.9%	✓
7	Henry Wilson	Democratic-Republican	3,962	27.4%	✓
7	Ludwig Worman	Federalist	3,213	22.2%
7	Peter Rhoads	Federalist	3,109	21.5%
8	Samuel D. Ingham	Democratic-Republican	5,417	34.5%	✓
8	Thomas J. Rogers	Democratic-Republican	4,629	29.5%	✓
8	Samuel Sitgreaves	Federalist	3,740	23.8%
8	Francis B. Shaw	Federalist	1,907	12.2%
9	William Cox Ellis	Federalist	6,398	18.1%	✓
9	Samuel MacKean	Democratic-Republican	6,137	17.4%	✓
9	George Kremer	Democratic-Republican	6,103	17.3%	✓
9	Joseph Woods	Democratic-Republican	5,897	16.7%
9	Henry Welles	Federalist	5,290	15%
9	Henry Yearick	Federalist	3,697	10.5%
9	Other candidates		1,813	5.1%
10	James S. Mitchell	Democratic-Republican	1,478	unopposed	✓
11	John Findlay	Democratic-Republican	5,262	27%	✓
11	James Wilson	Democratic-Republican	4,933	25.3%	✓
11	James MacSherry	Federalist	4,713	24.2%
11	William N. Irvine	Federalist	4,598	23.6%
12	John Brown	Democratic-Republican	5,371	unopposed	✓
13	John Tod	Democratic-Republican	4,166	unopposed	✓
14	Andrew Stewart	Democratic-Republican	2,889	60.8%	✓
14	Joseph Huston	Federalist	1,865	39.2%
15	Thomas Patterson	Democratic-Republican	1,745	67.8%	✓
15	Walter Craig	Federalist	830	32.2%
16	Walter Forward	Federalist	4,420	30.2%	✓
16	James Allison, Jr.	Federalist	4,123	28.2%	✓
16	John A. Scroggs	Democratic-Republican	3,118	21.3%
16	Joel Lewis	Democratic-Republican	2,960	20.2%
17	George Plumer	Democratic-Republican	3,073	54.1%	✓
17	Alexander W. Foster	Federalist	2,606	45.9%
18	Patrick Farrelly	Democratic-Republican	3,277	71.4%	✓
18	Samuel Williamson	Democratic-Republican	1,312	28.6%

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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