Mapping Early American Elections

19th Congress: Pennsylvania 1824

Pennsylvania elected one Federalist and twenty-five Democratic-Republicans to the Nineteenth Congress. Seventeen of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by Andrew Jackson and three of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

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

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.

In 1825, a special election was held in which Robert Orr was elected to replace James Allison, Jr., who had resigned from office.

In 1826, a special election was held in which Thomas Kittera was elected to replace Joseph Hemphill, who had resigned from office.

In 1826, a special election was held in which Jacob Krebs was elected to replace Henry Wilson, who had died.

In 1826, a special election was held in which Chauncey Forward was elected to replace Alexander Thompson, who had resigned from office.

In 1826, a special election was held in which Thomas H. Sill was elected to replace Patrick Farrelly, who had died.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John Wurts	Federalist	1,221	52.1%	✓
1	Joel B. Sutherland	Democratic-Republican	1,124	47.9%
2	Joseph Hemphill	Jacksonian	2,196	57.5%	✓
2	William J. Duane	Democratic-Republican	1,620	42.5%
3	Daniel H. Miller	Jacksonian	2,131	55.8%	✓
3	Stephen Duncan	Federalist	1,163	30.4%
3	Jacob Shearer	Democratic-Republican	528	13.8%
4	James Buchanan	Federalist	6,968	18%	✓
4	Samuel Edwards	Jacksonian	6,802	17.5%	✓
4	Charles Miner	Adams/Clay	6,756	17.4%	✓
4	Isaac D. Barnard	Democratic-Republican	6,129	15.8%
4	William Anderson	Democratic-Republican	6,098	15.7%
4	Samuel Houston	Democratic-Republican	6,028	15.5%
5	Philip S. Markley	Adams/Clay	1,817	unopposed	✓
6	Robert Harris	Jacksonian	2,773	62.7%	✓
6	Christian Gleim	Federalist	1,652	37.3%
7	William Adams	Jacksonian	3,790	32.7%	✓
7	Henry Wilson	Democratic-Republican	3,722	32.1%	✓
7	George Keck	Federalist	2,083	18%
7	Daniel Rose	Federalist	2,009	17.3%
8	Samuel D. Ingham	Jacksonian	4,982	50.1%	✓
8	George Wolf	Jacksonian	4,962	49.9%	✓
9	Samuel MacKean	Jacksonian	10,685	31.2%	✓
9	George Kremer	Jacksonian	10,586	30.9%	✓
9	Espy Van Horn	Democratic-Republican	7,295	21.3%	✓
9	William Cox Ellis	Federalist	5,702	16.6%
10	James S. Mitchell	Jacksonian	4,260	unopposed	✓
11	James Wilson	Democratic-Republican	5,929	48.2%	✓
11	John Findlay	Jacksonian	5,693	46.2%	✓
11	Other candidates		690	5.6%
12	John Mitchell	Jacksonian	2,731	37.1%	✓
12	John Brown	Democratic-Republican	2,644	35.9%
12	Robert Allison	Democratic-Republican	1,982	26.9%
13	Alexander Thomson	Democratic-Republican	2,723	unopposed	✓
14	Andrew Stewart	Jacksonian	2,719	unopposed	✓
15	Joseph Lawrence	Adams/Clay	2,082	unopposed	✓
16	James Allison, Jr.	Jacksonian	3,327	22%	✓
16	James S. Stevenson	Jacksonian	3,307	21.9%	✓
16	Robert Moore	Democratic-Republican	2,931	19.4%
16	Walter Forward	Federalist	2,722	18%
16	John Negley	Democratic-Republican	1,469	9.7%
16	George Sutton	Democratic-Republican	1,343	8.9%
17	George Plumer	Jacksonian	2,786	58.3%	✓
17	John H. Wise	Federalist	1,991	41.7%
18	Patrick Farrelly	Jacksonian	4,137	80.5%	✓
18	Samuel Williamson	Democratic-Republican	1,005	19.5%

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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