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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 12, 1802, for the 8th Congress.
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives were held in Pennsylvania on October 12, 1802, for the 8th Congress.
In the previous election, 13 Representatives (10 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists) had been elected to the 7th Congress. Two (both Democratic-Republicans) had resigned and were replaced in special elections by others of the same party.
Pennsylvania gained 5 seats in reapportionment following the 1800 census. In redistricting, the number of districts was reduced from 12 to 11, of which four were plural districts with 11 Representatives between them. Most of the new districts had borders that were very different from the previous districts. The new districts were as follows:
Numerous counties had been created between 1800 and 1802 split off from other counties, and several were still administratively attached to other counties.
Note: Many of these counties covered much larger areas than they do today, having since been divided into smaller counties
Twelve incumbents (9 Democratic-Republicans and 3 Federalists) ran for re-election, many in new districts. William Jones (DR) of the 1st district did not run for re-election. Of those who ran for re-election, all 9 Democratic-Republicans were re-elected, and all 3 Federalists lost to Democratic-Republicans. The six open seats were all won by Democratic-Republicans, returning an all-Democratic-Republican delegation to the 8th Congress.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 1st 3 seats |
Joseph Clay | 4,363 | 20.2% | George Latimer | 2,895 | 13.4% |
| Jacob Richards | 4,316 | 20.0% | Peter Brown | 2,875 | 13.3% | |
| Michael Leib (I) | 3,980 | 18.4% | Jonas Preston | 2,847 | 13.2% | |
| Elisha Gordon | 304 | 1.4% | ||||
| 2nd 3 seats |
Robert Brown (I) | 11,456 | 33.0% | Samuel Sitgreaves | 3,939 | 11.3% |
| Isaac Van Horne (I) | 10,697 | 30.8% | Nathaniel Borleau | 1,682 | 4.8% | |
| Frederick Conrad | 6,205 | 17.9% | Lord Butler | 781 | 2.2% | |
| 3rd 3 seats |
John Whitehill | 9,396 | 22.1% | Jacob Bower | 4,932 | 11.6% |
| Isaac Anderson | 9,365 | 22.0% | Joseph Hemphill (I) | 4,853 | 11.4% | |
| Joseph Hiester (I) | 9,236 | 21.7% | Thomas Boude (I) | 4,829 | 11.3% | |
| 4th 2 seats |
John A. Hanna (I) | 6,110 | 50.5% | |||
| David Bard | 5,970 | 49.3% | ||||
| David Mitchell | 28 | 0.2% | ||||
| 5th | Andrew Gregg (I) | 4,258 | 100% | |||
| 6th | John Stewart (I) | 2,285 | 56.7% | John Edie | 1,748 | 43.3% |
| 7th | John Rea | 2,173 | 66.6% | Henry Woods (I) | 941 | 28.9% |
| John McLene | 147 | 4.5% | ||||
| 8th | William Findley | 1,531 | 53.9% | |||
| Jacob Painter | 1,312 | 46.1% | ||||
| 9th | John Smilie (I) | 2,718 | 100% | |||
| 10th | William Hoge (I) | 2,300 | 100% | |||
| 11th | John Lucas | 2,168 | 48.9% | John Wilkins | 1,624 | 36.7% |
| Alexander Foster | 638 | 14.4% | ||||
William Hoge (DR) of the 10th district resigned October 15, 1804. A special election was held November 2, 1804 to fill the resulting vacancy
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 10th | John Hoge | 477 | 52.1% | |||
| Aaron Lyle | 439 | 47.9% | ||||
John Hoge was William's brother.