1810 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania

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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: The PA 1 1st district (3 seats) consisted of Delaware and Philadelphia counties (including the City of Philadelphia) The PA 2 2nd district (3 seats) consisted of Bucks, Luzerne, Montgomery, Northampton, Susquehanna, and Wayne Counties The PA 3 3rd district (3 seats) consisted of Berks, Chester, and Lancaster Counties The PA 4 4th district (2 seats) consisted of Cumberland, Dauphin, Huntingdon, and Mifflin Counties The PA 5 5th district consisted of Bradford, Centre, Clearfield, Lycoming, McKean, Northumberland, Potter, and Tioga Counties The PA 6 6th district consisted of Adams and York Counties The PA 7 7th district consisted of Bedford and Franklin Counties The PA 8 8th district consisted of Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties The PA 9 9th district consisted of Fayette and Greene Counties The PA 10 10th district consisted of Washington County The PA 11 11th district consisted of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie, Mercer, Venango, and Warren Counties 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 PA 2 2nd district, Robert Jenkins (F) of the PA 3 3rd district 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 Democratic-Republican Federalist PA 1 1st3 seats Adam SeybertNew School (I) 6,276 19.8% James Milnor 4,359 13.7% William Anderson (I) 6,218 19.6% Thomas Truxton 4,343 13.7% John Porter (I) 3,143 9.9% Thomas Dick 4,269 13.4% Robert McMullinOld School 3,127 9.9% PA 2 2nd3 seats Robert Brown (I) 5,444 19.1% William Milnor (I) 4,132 14.5% Jonathan Roberts 5,409 19.0% Levi Paulding 4,033 14.2% William Rodman 5,377 18.9% William Latimere 3,955 13.9% Charles Miner 102 0.4% PA 3 3rd3 seats Joseph Lefever 6,616 18.4% Daniel HiesterChanged parties (I) 5,770 16.0% Roger Davis 6,612 18.3% Samuel Bethel 5,437 15.1% John M. Hyneman 6,201 17.2% Mark J. Biddle 5,410 15.0% PA 4 4th2 seats David Bard (I) 5,436 50.0% Robert Whitehill (I) 5,429 50.0% PA 5 5th George Smith (I) 3,576 100% PA 6 6th William Crawford (I) 2,332 56.6% David Cassat 1,790 43.4% PA 7 7th William Piper 1,428 58.5% John Rea (I) 1,015 41.5% PA 8 8th William FindleyQuid (I) 2,735 60.9% John Kirkpatrick 1,757 39.1% PA 9 9th John Smilie 1,401 100% PA 10 10th Aaron Lyle (I) 1,344 70.4% Thomas L. Birch 564 29.6% PA 11 11th Abner Lacock 2,897 51.0% Adamson Tannehill 2,455 43.2% Samuel Smith (I) 326 5.7% Post-Election All 18 Representatives elected in October appeared in Washington at the start of the 12th Congress. John Smilie (DR) of the PA 9 9th district died December 30, 1812.http://artandhistory.house.gov/house_history/bioguide-front/12.pdf 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 Abner Lacock (DR) of the PA 11 11th district 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 Electoral data and information on districts are from the Wilkes University Elections Statistics Project 1810 Pennsylvania United States House of Representatives