Election Name: | United States House of Representatives election in Pennsylvania, 1792 |
Country: | Pennsylvania |
Type: | legislative |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1791 |
Previous Year: | 1791 |
Next Election: | United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania, 1794 |
Next Year: | 1794 |
Seats For Election: | All 13[1] Pennsylvania seats to the United States House of Representatives |
Election Date: | October 9, 1792 |
Party1: | Anti-Administration Party (United States) |
Last Election1: | 4 |
Seats1: | 8 |
Seat Change1: | 4 |
Popular Vote1: | 246,466 |
Percentage1: | 61.0% |
Party2: | Pro-Administration Party (United States) |
Last Election2: | 4 |
Seats2: | 5 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 157,338 |
Percentage2: | 39.0% |
An election to the United States House of Representatives was held in Pennsylvania on October 9, 1792, for the 3rd Congress.
Eight representatives, 4 Pro-Administration and 4 Anti-Administration, had been elected in the previous election. In the previous election, Pennsylvania had been divided into 8 districts. Five additional seats had been apportioned to Pennsylvania after the 1790 census. All 13 seats were elected at-large, an attempt by the Pro-Administration-majority legislature of Pennsylvania to prevent the election of Anti-Administration Representatives. This backfired and an 8-5 Anti-Administration majority was elected.
All 8 incumbents ran for re-election. Seven were re-elected. There were a total of 20 candidates running for the 13 seats, 11 Anti-Administration and 9 Pro-Administration (two of the Anti-Administration candidates ran on a dual ticket but are listed here as Anti-Administration)
colspan="3" | Anti-Administration | colspan="3" | Pro-Administration | ||||||||
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William Findley[2] (I) | 33,158 | 8.21% | John W. Kittera (I) | 29,835 | 7.39% | ||||||
Frederick Muhlenberg (I) | 32,341 | 8.01% | Thomas Hartley (I) | 28,493 | 7.06% | ||||||
Daniel Hiester (I) | 32,147 | 7.96% | Thomas Fitzsimons (I) | 17,997 | 4.46% | ||||||
William Irvine | 30,968 | 7.67% | James Armstrong | 17,312 | 4.29% | ||||||
Peter Muhlenberg | 21,784 | 5.40% | Thomas Scott | 16,657 | 4.13% | ||||||
Andrew Gregg (I) | 17,372 | 4.30% | Samuel Sitgreaves | 15,588 | 3.86% | ||||||
William Montgomery | 17,019 | 4.22% | William Bingham | 14,482 | 3.59% | ||||||
John Smilie | 16,754 | 4.15% | Henry Wynkoop | 14,348 | 3.55% | ||||||
Jonathan D. Sergeant | 15,096 | 3.74% | Israel Jacobs (I) | 2,626 | 0.65% | ||||||
John Barclay | 14,953 | 3.70% | |||||||||
Charles Thomson | 14,874 | 3.68% |
This was the last year in which Pennsylvania would elect all of its representatives at-large. In the following election, Pennsylvania would be divided up into 12 districts (including one plural district). At various times between 1873 and 1945, between 1 and 4 of Pennsylvania's Representatives were elected at-large, with the rest being elected from single-member districts.