1806 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania

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United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania,
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  1804 October 14, 1806 1808  

All Pennsylvania seats to the United States House of Representatives
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Last election171
Seats won153
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2Increase2.svg 2

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 14, 1806, for the 10th Congress.

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Background

In the previous elections, 17 Democratic-Republicans and 1 Federalist had been elected to represent Pennsylvania. There were two subsequent special elections which did not result in any seats changing parties. One seat held by a Democratic-Republican had become vacant and was not yet filled at the time of the election.

As in the previous election, there was a breakaway faction of the Democratic-Republican Party allied with the Federalists known as the tertium quids or Constitutional Republicans, which ran candidates in several districts. Several of the elected quids aligned with the Federalists on the federal level.

Congressional districts

Pennsylvania was divided into 11 districts, of which four were plural districts with 11 Representatives between them, with the remaining 7 Representatives elected from single-member districts. The districts were:

Note: Many of these counties covered much larger areas than they do today, having since been divided into smaller counties

Election results

Fifteen incumbents (14 Democratic-Republicans and the sole Federalist) ran for re-election, of whom eleven won re-election. The incumbents Isaac Anderson (DR) and Christian Lower (DR), both of the 2nd district did not run for re-election and one seat in the 1st district was vacant, the previous incumbent Michael Leib (DR) having resigned February 14, 1806. Two seats changed from Democratic-Republican to Federalist control.

Election results are unavailable for the 8th district .

1806 United States House election results
District Democratic-Republican Quid Federalist Unknown
1st
3 seats
John Porter [1] 4,85721.1% John Sergeant 1,5786.8%William Graham4,22318.3%
Jacob Richards (I)4,77020.7% Joseph Hemphill 2,92212.7%
Joseph Clay (I)4,70020.4%
2nd
3 seats
Robert Brown 5,18018.0% William Milnor [2] 4,82416.8%
John Pugh 4,76116.6% Frederick Conrad (I)4,65916.2%
John Hahn 4,75016.5%William Latimore4,58916.0%
3rd
3 seats
John Whitehill (I)5,66615.5% John Hiester 6,70918.3%
Roger Davis 5,54515.2% Matthias Richards 6,62518.1%
William Witman5,53915.1% Robert Jenkins [2] 6,48717.7%
4th
2 seats
Robert Whitehill (I)6,02447.7%Oliver Pollock2251.8%
David Bard (I)5,38842.7%
Evers Doty9837.8%
5th Daniel Montgomery, Jr. 3,16157.7% Andrew Gregg (I)2,32142.3%
6th James Kelly [2] (I)2,979100%
7th John Rea (I)1,51152.7% Henry Woods 50317.6%Andrew Dunlap85229.7%
8th William Findley (I)100%
9th John Smilie (I)1,987100%
10th William Hoge 1,20362.0% John Hamilton (I)73738.0%
11th Samuel Smith 3,33955.9% John Wilkins [2] 2,62144.1%

Special election

Joseph Clay (DR) of the 1st district resigned March 18, 1808. A special election was held October 11, 1808, the same day as the 1808 general elections.

1808 Special election results
District Democratic-Republican Federalist
1st Benjamin Say 7,59855.7%Charles W. Hare6,04644.3%

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References

  1. Won special election to 9th Congress
  2. 1 2 3 4 Aligned with Federalists