1810 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania explained

Election Name:United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1810
Country:Pennsylvania
Type:legislative
Ongoing:no
Previous Election:United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1808
Previous Year:1808
Next Election:United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1812
Next Year:1812
Seats For Election:All 18 Pennsylvania seats to the United States House of Representatives
Election Date:October 9, 1810
Party1:Democratic-Republican
Last Election1:16
Seats1:17
Seat Change1: 1
Party2:Federalist Party (United States)
Last Election2:2
Seats2:1
Seat Change2: 1

Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 9, 1810, for the 12th Congress. The Federalists were in decline in Pennsylvania at this time. In six of the eleven districts there were no Federalist candidates.

Background

Eighteen Representatives had been elected in 1808, 16 Democratic-Republicans and 2 Federalists. One Democratic-Republican resigned and was replaced by another Representative from the same party, so that there was still a 16-2 division. Four of the Democratic-Republicans and two of the Federalists were "quids", a short-lived alliance of moderate Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. That was the last year in which the quids as a movement existed.

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 1 Federalist) ran for re-election, of whom ten were re-elected. The incumbents John Ross (DR) of the, Robert Jenkins (F) of the and Matthias Richards (DR) also of the 3rd district did not run for re-election. Two seats changed from Federalist to Democratic-Republican control and one seat changed from Democratic-Republican to Federalist control, for a net loss of 1 seat by the Federalists. In the 1st district, there was a split between three "New School" and one "Old School" Democratic-Republicans, which split the Democratic-Republican vote enough to allow one of the three seats in that district to be won by a Federalist.

1810 United States House election results
District colspan="3" Democratic-Republican colspan="3" Federalist

3 seats
Adam Seybert[1] (I)6,27619.8%James Milnor4,35913.7%
William Anderson (I)6,21819.6%Thomas Truxton4,34313.7%
John Porter (I)3,1439.9%Thomas Dick4,26913.4%
Robert McMullin[2] 3,1279.9%

3 seats
Robert Brown (I)5,44419.1%William Milnor (I)4,13214.5%
Jonathan Roberts5,40919.0%Levi Paulding4,03314.2%
William Rodman5,37718.9%William Latimere3,95513.9%
Charles Miner1020.4%

3 seats
Joseph Lefever6,61618.4%Daniel Hiester[3] (I)5,77016.0%
Roger Davis6,61218.3%Samuel Bethel5,43715.1%
John M. Hyneman6,20117.2%Mark J. Biddle5,41015.0%

2 seats
David Bard (I)5,43650.0%
Robert Whitehill (I)5,42950.0%
George Smith (I)3,576100%
William Crawford (I)2,33256.6%David Cassat1,79043.4%
William Piper1,42858.5%
John Rea (I)1,01541.5%
William Findley[4] (I)2,73560.9%
John Kirkpatrick1,75739.1%
John Smilie1,401100%
Aaron Lyle (I)1,34470.4%Thomas L. Birch56429.6%
Abner Lacock2,89751.0%
Adamson Tannehill2,45543.2%
Samuel Smith (I)3265.7%

Post-Election

All 18 Representatives elected in October appeared in Washington at the start of the 12th Congress. John Smilie (DR) of the died December 30, 1812.[5] Abner Lacock (DR) of the resigned February 24, 1813, after being elected to the Senate. Both had been re-elected to the 13th Congress, and both districts were left vacant for the remainder of the 12th Congress.

References

  1. New School
  2. Old School
  3. Changed parties
  4. Quid
  5. Web site: 12th Congress membership roster . 2012-12-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121213141136/http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/12.pdf . 2012-12-13 . dead .