1812 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 13, 1812, for the 13th Congress.
Background
[edit]In the previous election, 17 Democratic-Republicans and 1 Federalist had been elected to represent Pennsylvania.
Congressional districts
[edit]Pennsylvania was divided at this time into 15 districts, 9 of which were single-member districts, five of which had two members, and one of which had four members. Following the 1810 census, Pennsylvania underwent redistricting. Most of the new districts had little correspondence to the former districts, for example, the old 3rd district was divided between the new 2nd, 3rd, and 7th districts. The 1st, 9th and 10th districts were unaltered, except for renumbering of the old 9th and 10th to 13th and 12th respectively, and the addition of a 4th seat to the 1st district.
- The 1st district (4 seats) consisted of Delaware and Philadelphia Counties (including the City of Philadelphia)
- The 2nd district (2 seats) consisted of Chester and Montgomery Counties
- The 3rd district (2 seats) consisted of Dauphin and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- The 4th district consisted of York County
- The 5th district (2 seats) consisted of Adams, Cumberland and Franklin Counties
- The 6th district (2 seats) consisted of Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Wayne Counties
- The 7th district consisted of Berks and Schuylkill Counties
- The 8th district consisted of Bedford, Cambria, and Franklin Counties
- The 9th district consisted of Centre, Clearfield, Huntingdon, McKean, and Mifflin Counties
- The 10th district (2 seats) consisted of Bradford, Luzerne, Lycoming, Northumberland, Potter, Susquehanna, and Tioga Counties
- The 11th district consisted of Armstrong, Indiana, Jefferson, and Westmoreland Counties
- The 12th district consisted of Washington County
- The 13th district consisted of Fayette and Greene Counties
- The 14th district consisted of Allegheny and Butler Counties
- The 15th district consisted of Beaver, Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango and Warren Counties
Election results
[edit]Sixteen incumbents (all Democratic-Republicans) ran for re-election, of whom 14 were re-elected. The incumbents James Milnor (F) of the 1st district and Joseph Lefever (DR) of the old 3rd district did not run for re-election. The two incumbents who lost re-election lost to members of the same party, while six of the seven open seats were won by Democratic-Republicans, a net increase of 5 seats for the Democratic-Republicans and no change for the Federalists.
District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | Unknown | ||||||
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1st 4 seats |
Adam Seybert (I) | 7,712 | 13.7% | Joseph Hopkinson | 6,421 | 11.4% | |||
William Anderson (I) | 7,697 | 13.7% | Joseph S. Lewis | 6,420 | 11.4% | ||||
Charles J. Ingersoll | 7,685 | 13.6% | Samuel Harvey | 6,415 | 11.4% | ||||
John Conard | 7,637 | 13.5% | William Pennock | 6,393 | 11.3% | ||||
2nd 2 seats |
Roger Davis (I) | 5,815 | 26.2% | Samuel Henderson | 5,298 | 23.8% | |||
Jonathan Roberts (I) | 5,810 | 26.1% | Francis Gardner | 5,295 | 23.8% | ||||
3rd 2 seats |
James Whitehill | 5,320 | 27.6% | John Gloninger | 5,030 | 26.1% | |||
Jacob Bucher | 4,608 | 23.9% | Amos Slaymaker[2] | 4,329 | 22.4% | ||||
4th | Hugh Glasgow | 2,098 | 58.6% | Jacob Eichelberger | 1,484 | 41.4% | |||
5th 2 seats |
Robert Whitehill (I) | 4,864 | 27.5% | Edward Crawford | 4,054 | 22.9% | |||
William Crawford (I) | 4,767 | 26.9% | James Duncan | 4,012 | 22.7% | ||||
6th 2 seats |
Robert Brown (I) | 5,949 | 30.5% | William Rodman (I[3]) | 3,744 | 19.2% | |||
Samuel D. Ingham | 5,938 | 30.4% | William Lattimore | 3,575 | 18.3% | ||||
Samuel Sitgreaves | 328 | 1.7% | |||||||
7th | John M. Hyneman (I) | 2,652 | 59.4% | Daniel Rose | 1,810 | 40.6% | |||
8th | William Piper (I) | 2,033 | 63.5% | Samuel Riddle | 1,171 | 36.% | |||
9th | David Bard (I) | 3,779 | 76.0% | John Blair | 1,191 | 24.0% | |||
10th 2 seats |
Jared Irwin | 3,526 | 23.4% | Nathan Beach | 1,303 | 8.6% | |||
Isaac Smith | 3,346 | 22.2% | Enoch Smith | 1,301 | 8.6% | ||||
George Smith (I) | 2,831 | 18.8% | |||||||
Daniel Montgomery | 2,765 | 18.3% | |||||||
11th | William Findley (I) | 2,024 | 55.3% | Thomas Pollock | 1,636 | 44.7% | |||
12th | Aaron Lyle (I) | 2,410 | 73.5% | Joseph Pentecost | 823 | 25.1% | |||
Thomas L. Burch | 48 | 1.5% | |||||||
13th | John Smilie (I) | 1,550 | 60.4% | Thomas Meason | 1,017 | 39.6% | |||
14th | Adamson Tannehill | 1,419 | 48.0% | John Woods | 1,162 | 39.3% | John Wilson | 374 | 12.7% |
15th | Abner Lacock | 2,167 | 62.8% | Roger Alden | 855 | 24.8% | |||
Robert Moore | 427 | 12.4% |
Special elections
[edit]Special elections for the first session
[edit]Three of the re-elected Representatives did not serve in the 13th Congress, two of whom did not finish their term in the 12th Congress either.[4] John Smilie (DR), re-elected to the 13th district, died on December 30, 1812, and Abner Lacock (DR), re-elected to the 15th district, resigned February 24, 1813, after being elected to the Senate. Smilie was replaced by Isaac Griffin in a special election held February 16, 1813. The only record of that election is a manuscript which indicates he won by a 779-vote majority, but does not record the name(s) of his opponent(s) nor the total number of votes cast. Robert Whitehill (DR) of the 5th district died April 8, 1813.[5] The election in the 5th district was held May 11, 1813, and in the 15th on May 4, 1813
District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | Unknown | ||||||
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5th | John Rea | 2,534 | 55.7% | Edward Crawford | 2,011 | 44.3% | |||
15th[6] | Thomas Wilson | 690 | 78.9% | Robert Morse | 80 | 9.1% | |||
Patrick Farrelly | 70 | 8.0% | Others | 35 | 4.0% |
Neither seat changed political parties, and both took their seats at the beginning of the 1st session of the 13th Congress, which lasted May 24 - August 2, 1813[5]
Special elections for the 2nd session
[edit]John Gloninger (F) of the 3rd district and John M. Hyneman (DR) of the 7th district both resigned August 2, 1813, at the end of the 1st session. They were replaced in special elections held on October 12, 1813
District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | Unknown | ||||||
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3rd | Edward Crouch | 4,550 | 62.0% | William Wallace | 2,790 | 38.0% | |||
5th | Daniel Udree | 2,016 | 61.4% | David Hottenstein | 825 | 25.1% | David Kirby | 445 | 13.5% |
Both took their seats December 6, 1813, at the start of the 2nd session. With Crouch's victory in the 3rd district, the sole Federalist-held seat in Pennsylvania changed to Democratic-Republican control, thus Pennsylvania's delegation was completely Democratic-Republican during the 2nd session, which lasted December 6, 1813 - April 18, 1814[5]
Special elections for the third session
[edit]Jonathan Roberts (DR) of the 2nd district resigned February 24, 1814, upon being elected to the Senate and James Whitehill (DR) of the 3rd district resigned September 1, 1814. Both were replaced in a special election held October 11, 1814, the same day as the 1814 congressional elections.
District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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2nd[7] | John Hahn | 4,702 | 49.6% | Samuel Henderson | 4,773 | 50.4% |
3rd | John Whiteside | 2,428 | 44.1% | Amos Slaymaker | 3,078 | 55.9% |
Both seats changed from Democratic-Republican to Federalist control, so that for the 3rd session, Pennsylvania's delegation was 21 Democratic-Republicans and 2 Federalists.
References
[edit]- Electoral data and information on districts are from the Wilkes University Elections Statistics Project
- ^ 5 seats gained in reapportionment
- ^ Elected in subsequent special election
- ^ Changed parties
- ^ "12th Congress membership roster" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
- ^ a b c "13th Congress membership roster" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2012.
- ^ Election details from Ourcampaigns.com
- ^ Election details from Ourcampaigns.com