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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 11, 1808, for the 11th Congress.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 11, 1808, for the 11th Congress.
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.
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
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.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Quid | Federalist | ||||||
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| 1st 3 seats | Benjamin Say [1] | 7,598 | 18.5% | Joseph Hemphill | 6,123 | 14.9% | |||
| John Porter (I) | 7,589 | 18.5% | Derick Peterson | 6,098 | 14.9% | ||||
| William Anderson | 7,559 | 18.4% | Charles W. Hare | 6,052 | 14.8% | ||||
| 2nd 3 seats | Robert Brown (I) | 9,218 | 16.9% | John Ross [2] | 9,167 | 16.8% | |||
| John Pugh (I) | 9,090 | 16.7% | William Milnor [3] (I) | 9,095 | 16.7% | ||||
| John Hahn | 9,026 | 16.6% | Roswell Wells [3] | 8,941 | 16.4% | ||||
| 3rd 3 seats | John Whitehill | 10,216 | 16.4% | Matthias Richards [2] (I) | 10,652 | 17.1% | |||
| Roger Davis | 10,161 | 16.3% | Daniel Hiester [2] | 10,652 | 17.1% | ||||
| William Witman | 10,121 | 16.2% | Robert Jenkins [3] (I) | 10,542 | 16.9% | ||||
| 4th 2 seats | Robert Whitehill (I) | 8,807 | 36.7% | John Gloninger | 3,228 | 13.5% | |||
| David Bard (I) | 8,774 | 36.6% | William Alexander | 3,165 | 13.2% | ||||
| 5th | George Smith | 7,191 | 82.3% | John Bull | 1,549 | 17.7% | |||
| 6th | William Crawford | 3,506 | 52.4% | James Kelly (I) | 3,188 | 47.6% | |||
| 7th | John Rea (I) | 3,496 | 61.5% | Andrew Dunlap | 2,191 | 38.5% | |||
| 8th | John Kirkpatrick | 1,732 | 29.1% | William Findley [2] (I) | 2,718 | 45.7% | |||
| Robert Philson | 1,502 | 25.2% | |||||||
| 9th | John Smilie (I) | 3,183 | 67.3% | Thomas Meason | 1,550 | 32.7% | |||
| 10th | Aaron Lyle (I) | 3,425 | 76.5% | John Hamilton [3] | 1,053 | 23.5% | |||
| 11th | Samuel Smith (I) | 6,206 | 68.3% | Alexander Foster | 2,885 | 31.7% | |||
| 1st (special) | Benjamin Say | 7,598 | 55.7% | Charles W. Hare | 6,046 | 44.3% | |||
Benjamin Say (DR) of the 1st district resigned in June, 1809, and a special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy
| District | Democratic-Republican | ||
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| 1st | Adam Seybert | 5,936 | 59.5% |
| Richard R. Smith [4] | 4,043 | 40.5% | |
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