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Elections to theUnited States House of Representatives were held inPennsylvania on October 9, 1810, for the12th Congress. The Federalists were in decline in Pennsylvania at this time. In six of the eleven districts there were no Federalist candidates.
Eighteen Representatives had been electedin 1808, 16Democratic-Republicans and 2Federalists. 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", a short-lived alliance of moderate Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. That was the last year in which the quids as a movement existed.
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 1 Federalist) ran for re-election, of whom ten were re-elected. The incumbentsJohn Ross (DR) of the2nd district,Robert Jenkins (F) of the3rd district andMatthias 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.
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| 1st 3 seats | Adam Seybert[1] (I) | 6,276 | 19.8% | James Milnor | 4,359 | 13.7% |
| William Anderson[1] (I) | 6,218 | 19.6% | Thomas Truxton | 4,343 | 13.7% | |
| John Porter[1] (I) | 3,143 | 9.9% | Thomas Dick | 4,269 | 13.4% | |
| Robert McMullin[2] | 3,127 | 9.9% | ||||
| 2nd 3 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% | ||||
| 3rd 3 seats | Joseph Lefever | 6,616 | 18.4% | Daniel Hiester[3] (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% | |
| 4th 2 seats | David Bard (I) | 5,436 | 50.0% | |||
| Robert Whitehill (I) | 5,429 | 50.0% | ||||
| 5th | George Smith (I) | 3,576 | 100% | |||
| 6th | William Crawford (I) | 2,332 | 56.6% | David Cassat | 1,790 | 43.4% |
| 7th | William Piper | 1,428 | 58.5% | |||
| John Rea (I) | 1,015 | 41.5% | ||||
| 8th | William Findley[4] (I) | 2,735 | 60.9% | |||
| John Kirkpatrick | 1,757 | 39.1% | ||||
| 9th | John Smilie | 1,401 | 100% | |||
| 10th | Aaron Lyle (I) | 1,344 | 70.4% | Thomas L. Birch | 564 | 29.6% |
| 11th | Abner Lacock | 2,897 | 51.0% | |||
| Adamson Tannehill | 2,455 | 43.2% | ||||
| Samuel Smith (I) | 326 | 5.7% | ||||
All 18 Representatives elected in October appeared in Washington at the start of the 12th Congress.John Smilie (DR) of the9th district died December 30, 1812.[5]Abner Lacock (DR) of the11th district resigned February 24, 1813, after being elected to theSenate. Both had been re-elected to the13th Congress, and both districts were left vacant for the remainder of the 12th Congress.
