1808 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania

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United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1808
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All 18 Pennsylvania seats to the United States House of Representatives
 Majority partyMinority party
 
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Last election153
Seats won162
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 11, 1808, for the 11th Congress.

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Background

Eighteen Representatives had been elected in the previous election, 15 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists. All three Federalists and two of the Democratic-Republicans were quids, an alliance of moderate Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. One seat held by a Democratic-Republican had become vacant prior to this election and was filled in a special election held at the same time as this election.

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:

Luzerne County's western border was altered between the 1806 and 1808 elections, altering the boundary between the 2nd and 5th districts

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

Election results

Thirteen incumbents (10 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists) ran for re-election, of whom 11 won re-election. The incumbents Jacob Richards (DR) of the 1st district , John Hiester (DR) of the 3rd district , Daniel Montgomery (DR) of the 5th district and William Hoge (DR) of the 10th district did not run for re-election. There was also a vacancy in the 1st district. One seat changed from Federalist to Democratic-Republican control.

1808 United States House election results
District Democratic-Republican Quid Federalist
1st
3 seats		 Benjamin Say [1] 7,59818.5% Joseph Hemphill 6,12314.9%
John Porter (I)7,58918.5%Derick Peterson6,09814.9%
William Anderson 7,55918.4%Charles W. Hare6,05214.8%
2nd
3 seats		 Robert Brown (I)9,21816.9% John Ross [2] 9,16716.8%
John Pugh (I)9,09016.7% William Milnor [3] (I)9,09516.7%
John Hahn 9,02616.6%Roswell Wells [3] 8,94116.4%
3rd
3 seats		 John Whitehill 10,21616.4% Matthias Richards [2] (I)10,65217.1%
Roger Davis 10,16116.3% Daniel Hiester [2] 10,65217.1%
William Witman10,12116.2% Robert Jenkins [3] (I)10,54216.9%
4th
2 seats		 Robert Whitehill (I)8,80736.7% John Gloninger 3,22813.5%
David Bard (I)8,77436.6%William Alexander3,16513.2%
5th George Smith 7,19182.3%John Bull1,54917.7%
6th William Crawford 3,50652.4% James Kelly (I)3,18847.6%
7th John Rea (I)3,49661.5%Andrew Dunlap2,19138.5%
8th John Kirkpatrick1,73229.1% William Findley [2] (I)2,71845.7%
Robert Philson 1,50225.2%
9th John Smilie (I)3,18367.3%Thomas Meason1,55032.7%
10th Aaron Lyle (I)3,42576.5% John Hamilton [3] 1,05323.5%
11th Samuel Smith (I)6,20668.3%Alexander Foster2,88531.7%
1st (special) Benjamin Say 7,59855.7%Charles W. Hare6,04644.3%

Special election

Benjamin Say (DR) of the 1st district resigned in June, 1809, and a special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy

1809 Special election results
District Democratic-Republican
1st Adam Seybert 5,93659.5%
Richard R. Smith [4] 4,04340.5%

References

  1. ↑ Won special election to 10th Congress
  2. 1 2 3 4 Aligned with the Democratic-Republicans
  3. 1 2 3 4 Aligned with the Federalists
  4. ↑ Ran as "American Republican"
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