U.S. House Results: Pennsylvania, 1788

U.S. House Results: Pennsylvania, 1788

	Statewide Results
F	Federalist	7,962 7,962	54.5% 54.5%	6 6 R	1,308 1,308
A	Anti-Federalist	6,654 6,654	45.5% 45.5%	2 2 R
	Total	14,616 14,616	100%	8 8 R

Election Notes

Election held November 26, 1788. All eight representatives were elected at-large, each voter being entitled to vote for eight candidates. Here, each vote for a candidate is counted as one-eighth of a vote for that candidate's party.
Separate pages pit each winning candidate against the best-performing losing candidate of the opposite party:

The following pages pit each losing candidate against the worst-performing winning candidate of the opposite party:

These data are drawn from contemporary newspaper sources; see the Lampi collection and 1 The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 377 (Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker eds., 1976).

The Lampi collection refers to "Robert Whitehall" rather than "Robert Whitehill."

Jurisdiction	Federalist	Anti-Federalist
Sum	7,962 54.5%	6,654 45.5%
Bedford	82 0 31.1%	182 0 68.9%
Berks	41 0 8.9%	421 0 91.1%
Bucks	655 0 74.2%	228 0 25.8%
Chester	897 0 81.5%	203 0 18.5%
Cumberland	279 0 15.1%	1,564 0 84.9%
Dauphin	88 0 15.4%	483 0 84.6%
Fayette	28 0 35.0%	52 0 65.0%
Franklin	370 0 40.3%	549 0 59.7%
Huntingdon	135 0 66.5%	68 0 33.5%
Lancaster	665 0 67.0%	327 0 33.0%
Luzerne	17 0 94.4%	1 0 5.6%
Montgomery	314 0 56.4%	243 0 43.6%
Northampton	210 0 47.9%	228 0 52.1%
Northumberland	197 0 35.6%	356 0 64.4%
Philadelphia	2,334 0 74.3%	808 0 25.7%
Washington	34 0 10.1%	303 0 89.9%
Westmoreland	128 0 22.7%	437 0 77.3%
York	1,488 0 88.1%	201 0 11.9%