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Elections to theUnited States House of Representatives were held inPennsylvania on October 14, 1806, for the10th Congress.
In theprevious elections, 17Democratic-Republicans and 1Federalist had been elected to represent Pennsylvania. There were two subsequentspecial elections which did not result in any seats changing parties. One seat held by a Democratic-Republican had become vacant and was not yet filled at the time of the election.
As in the previous election, there was a breakaway faction of the Democratic-Republican Party allied with the Federalists known as thetertium quids or Constitutional Republicans, which ran candidates in several districts. Several of the elected quids aligned with the Federalists on the federal level.
Pennsylvania was divided into 11 districts, of which four wereplural districts with 11 Representatives between them, with the remaining 7 Representatives elected from single-member districts. The districts were:
Note: Many of these counties covered much larger areas than they do today, having since been divided into smaller counties
Fifteen incumbents (14 Democratic-Republicans and the sole Federalist) ran for re-election, of whom eleven won re-election. The incumbentsIsaac Anderson (DR) andChristian Lower (DR), both of the2nd district did not run for re-election and one seat in the1st district was vacant, the previous incumbentMichael Leib (DR) having resigned February 14, 1806. Two seats changed from Democratic-Republican to Federalist control.
Election results are unavailable for the8th district.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Quid | Federalist | Unknown | ||||||||
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| 1st 3 seats | John Porter[1] | 4,857 | 21.1% | John Sergeant | 1,578 | 6.8% | William Graham | 4,223 | 18.3% | |||
| Jacob Richards (I) | 4,770 | 20.7% | Joseph Hemphill | 2,922 | 12.7% | |||||||
| Joseph Clay (I) | 4,700 | 20.4% | ||||||||||
| 2nd 3 seats | Robert Brown | 5,180 | 18.0% | William Milnor[2] | 4,824 | 16.8% | ||||||
| John Pugh | 4,761 | 16.6% | Frederick Conrad (I) | 4,659 | 16.2% | |||||||
| John Hahn | 4,750 | 16.5% | William Latimore | 4,589 | 16.0% | |||||||
| 3rd 3 seats | John Whitehill (I) | 5,666 | 15.5% | John Hiester | 6,709 | 18.3% | ||||||
| Roger Davis | 5,545 | 15.2% | Matthias Richards | 6,625 | 18.1% | |||||||
| William Witman | 5,539 | 15.1% | Robert Jenkins[2] | 6,487 | 17.7% | |||||||
| 4th 2 seats | Robert Whitehill (I) | 6,024 | 47.7% | Oliver Pollock | 225 | 1.8% | ||||||
| David Bard (I) | 5,388 | 42.7% | ||||||||||
| Evers Doty | 983 | 7.8% | ||||||||||
| 5th | Daniel Montgomery, Jr. | 3,161 | 57.7% | Andrew Gregg (I) | 2,321 | 42.3% | ||||||
| 6th | James Kelly[2] (I) | 2,979 | 100% | |||||||||
| 7th | John Rea (I) | 1,511 | 52.7% | Henry Woods | 503 | 17.6% | Andrew Dunlap | 852 | 29.7% | |||
| 8th | William Findley (I) | 100% | ||||||||||
| 9th | John Smilie (I) | 1,987 | 100% | |||||||||
| 10th | William Hoge | 1,203 | 62.0% | John Hamilton (I) | 737 | 38.0% | ||||||
| 11th | Samuel Smith | 3,339 | 55.9% | John Wilkins[2] | 2,621 | 44.1% | ||||||
Joseph Clay (DR) of the1st district resigned March 18, 1808. A special election was held October 11, 1808, the same day as the1808 general elections.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 1st | Benjamin Say | 7,598 | 55.7% | Charles W. Hare | 6,046 | 44.3% |
