1802 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania
Elections to the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania for the 8th Congress were held October 12, 1802.
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Background
In the previous election, 13 Representatives (10 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists) had been elected to the 7th Congress. Two (both Democratic-Republicans) had resigned and were replaced in special elections by others of the same party.
Congressional districts
Pennsylvania gained 5 seats in reapportionment following the 1800 census. In redistricting, the number of districts was reduced from 12 to 11, of which four were plural districts with 11 Representatives between them. Most of the new districts had borders that were very different from the previous districts. The new districts were as follows:
- The 1st district (3 seats) consisted of Delaware and Philadelphia counties (including the City of Philadelphia)
- The 2nd district (3 seats) consisted of Bucks, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton, and Wayne Counties
- The 3rd district (3 seats) consisted of Berks, Chester, and Lancaster Counties
- The 4th district (2 seats) consisted of Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, and Mifflin Counties
- The 5th district consisted of Centre, Lycoming, and Northumberland Counties
- The 6th district consisted of Adams and York Counties
- The 7th district consisted of Bedford and Franklin Counties
- The 8th district consisted of Armstrong, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties
- The 9th district consisted of Fayette and Greene Counties
- The 10th district consisted of Washington County
- The 11th district consisted of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango, and Warren Counties
Numerous counties had been created between 1800 and 1802 split off from other counties, and several were still administratively attached to other counties.
Note: Many of these counties covered much larger areas than they do today, having since been divided into smaller counties
Election results
Twelve incumbents ran for re-election (9 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists) ran for re-election, many in new districts. William Jones (DR) of the 1st district did not run for re-election. Of those who ran for re-election, all 9 Democratic-Republicans were re-elected, and all 3 Federalists lost to Democratic-Republicans. The six open seats were all won by Democratic-Republicans, returning an all-Democratic-Republican delegation to the 8th Congress.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 1st 3 seats |
Joseph Clay | 4,363 | 20.2% | George Latimer | 2,895 | 13.4% |
| Jacob Richards | 4,316 | 20.0% | Peter Brown | 2,875 | 13.3% | |
| Michael Leib (I) | 3,980 | 18.4% | Jonas Preston | 2,847 | 13.2% | |
| Elisha Gordon | 304 | 1.4% | ||||
| 2nd 3 seats |
Robert Brown (I) | 11,456 | 33.0% | Samuel Sitgreaves | 3,939 | 11.3% |
| Isaac Van Horne (I) | 10,697 | 30.8% | Nathaniel Borleau | 1,682 | 4.8% | |
| Frederick Conrad | 6,205 | 17.9% | Lord Butler | 781 | 2.2% | |
| 3rd 3 seats |
John Whitehill | 9,396 | 22.1% | Jacob Bower | 4,932 | 11.6% |
| Isaac Anderson | 9,365 | 22.0% | Joseph Hemphill (I) | 4,853 | 11.4% | |
| Joseph Hiester (I) | 9,236 | 21.7% | Thomas Boude (I) | 4,829 | 11.3% | |
| 4th 2 seats |
John A. Hanna (I) | 6,110 | 50.5% | |||
| David Bard | 5,970 | 49.3% | ||||
| David Mitchell | 28 | 0.2% | ||||
| 5th | Andrew Gregg (I) | 4,258 | 100% | |||
| 6th | John Stewart (I) | 2,285 | 56.7% | John Edie | 1,748 | 43.3% |
| 7th | John Rea | 2,173 | 66.6% | Henry Woods (I) | 941 | 28.9% |
| John McLene | 147 | 4.5% | ||||
| 8th | William Findley | 1,531 | 53.9% | |||
| Jacob Painter | 1,312 | 46.1% | ||||
| 9th | John Smilie (I) | 2,718 | 100% | |||
| 10th | William Hoge (I) | 2,300 | 100% | |||
| 11th | John Lucas | 2,168 | 48.9% | John Wilkins | 1,624 | 36.7% |
| Alexander Foster | 638 | 14.4% | ||||
Special election
William Hoge (DR) of the 10th district resigned October 15, 1804. A special election was held November 2, 1804 to fill the resulting vacancy
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 10th | John Hoge | 477 | 52.1% | |||
| Aaron Lyle | 439 | 47.9% | ||||
John Hoge was William's brother.
References
- Electoral data are from the Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
- 5 new seats gained in reapportionment