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8th Congress U. S. Congressional Election 12 October 1802 1803-1805 Name Party Vote Name Party Vote 1st District (3 elected): 4th District (2 elected): 11th District: Joseph Clay Dem-Rep 4,363 John A. Hanna Dem-Rep 6,110 John B. Lucas Dem-Rep 2,168 Jacob Richards Dem-Rep 4,316 David Bard Dem-Rep 5,970 John Wilkins Federalist 1,624 Michael Leib Dem-Rep 3,980 David Mitchell Dem-Rep 28 Alexander Foster Federalist 638 George Latimer Federalist 2,895 5th District: Peter Brown Federalist 2,875 Andrew Gregg Dem-Rep 4,258 Jonas Preston Federalist 2,847 Elisha Gordon Federalist 304 6th District: John Stewart Dem-Rep 2,285 2nd District (3 elected): John Edie Federalist 1,748 Robert Brown Dem-Rep 11,456 7th District: Isaac Van Horne Dem-Rep 10,697 John Rea Dem-Rep 2,173 Frederick Conrad Dem-Rep 6,205 Henry Woods Federalist 941 Samuel Sitgreaves Federalist 3,939 John McLene Dem-Rep 147 Nathaniel B. Borleau Federalist 1,682 Lord Butler Federalist 781 8th District: William Findley Dem-Rep 1,531 3rd District (3 elected): Jacob Painter Dem-Rep 1,312 John Whitehill Dem-Rep 9,396 Special Election Isaac Anderson Dem-Rep 9,365 9th District: 2 November 1804 Joseph Hiester Dem-Rep 9,236 John Smilie Dem-Rep 2,718 10th District: Jacob Bower Federalist 4,932 10th District: John Hoge Federalist 477 Joseph Hemphill Federalist 4,853 William Hoge Dem-Rep 2,300 Aaron Lyle Dem-Rep 439 Thomas Boude Federalist 4,829 Resigned 15 October 1804. Replaced a Democratic-Republican. Boldface indicates winner. Italics indicate incumbent. 8th Congress: 1803-1805 Democratic-Republican - 18 Federalist - 0 ERIE (Atch. to Crawford] WARREN (Atch. to CRAWFORD Crawford] LUZERNE 11 LYCOMING VENANGO WAYNE MERCER (Atch. to (Atch. to Crawford} 5 Crawford] ARMSTRONG 2 BUTLER (Atch. to CENTRE (Atch. to NORTHUMBERLAND 3 seats BEAVER Westmoreland} NORTHAMPTON (Atch. to Allegheny} Allegheny} MIFFLIN HUNTINGDON BERKS ALLEGHENY BUCKS WESTMORELAND 4 3 seats DAUPHIN 10 8 2 seats 3 MONTGOMERY WASHINGTON CUMBERLAND LANCASTER CHESTER PHILA. FAYETTE BEDFORD 6 1 PHILA. SOMERSET DELAWARE GREENE 7 FRANKLIN ADAMS YORK CITY 9 3 seats Source: Dubin, Congressional Elections, pp. 27, 29 13 January 2007.

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