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
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and 2
Federalists
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. 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
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", 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 district
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s with 11 Representatives between them, with the remaining 7 Representatives elected from single-member districts. The districts were:
*The (3 seats) consisted of
Delaware and
Philadelphia counties (including the City of
Philadelphia)
*The (3 seats) consisted of
Bucks
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,
Luzerne,
Montgomery,
Northampton
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,
Susquehanna, and
Wayne Counties
*The (3 seats) consisted of
Berks,
Chester
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, and
Lancaster Counties
*The (2 seats) consisted of
Cumberland
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,
Dauphin,
Huntingdon, and
Mifflin Counties
*The consisted of
Bradford
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,
Centre,
Clearfield,
Lycoming,
McKean McKean may refer to:
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* McKean, Pennsylvania
* McKean County, Pennsylvania
* McKean Island, island in the Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati
* McKean Township (disambiguation)
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* McKean (surname), people with the surname ''McKea ...
,
Northumberland,
Potter
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, and
Tioga Counties
*The consisted of
Adams and
York Counties
*The consisted of
Bedford and
Franklin Counties
*The consisted of
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* Armstrong, Victoria
Canada
* Armstrong, British Columbia
* Armstrong ...
,
Cambria,
Indiana,
Jefferson Jefferson may refer to:
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,
Somerset, and
Westmoreland Counties
*The consisted of
Fayette and
Greene Counties
*The consisted of
Washington County
*The consisted of
Allegheny,
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,
Butler
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,
Crawford
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,
Erie,
Mercer
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,
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 ,
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.
Post-Election
All 18 Representatives elected in October appeared in Washington at the start of the 12th Congress.
John Smilie
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(DR) of the died December 30, 1812.
Abner Lacock
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B ...
(DR) of the resigned February 24, 1813 after being elected to the
Senate
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. Both had been re-elected to the
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, and both districts were left vacant for the remainder of the 12th Congress.
References
*Electoral data and information on districts are fro
the Wilkes University Elections Statistics Project
{{United States House of Representatives elections
1810
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic.
* Janua ...
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