1798 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey
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All 5 New Jersey seats to the United States House of Representatives | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elections to the United States House of Representatives in New Jersey for the 6th Congress were held October 10, 1798.
Background
[edit]All previous elections had been held on an at-large basis. Five Federalists had been elected in the previous election. For this election, New Jersey switched, for the first time, to using districts.
Election results
[edit]Three incumbents ran for re-election, of whom, two of whom lost to Democratic-Republicans. The incumbents Jonathan Dayton (F) and Thomas Sinnickson (F) did not run for re-election. In the districts with no incumbents, one was won by a Democratic-Republican and the other by a Federalist, for a net gain of 3 seats by the Democratic-Republicans
| District | Democratic-Republican | Federalist | ||||
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| Eastern[1] | John Condit | 3,378 | 52.5% | James Schureman (I) | 3,054 | 47.5% |
| Northern[2] | Aaron Kitchell | 3,399 | 72.5% | Mark Thomson (I) | 1,287 | 27.5% |
| Western[3] | James Linn | 1,613 | 51.3% | Samuel R. Stewart | 979 | 31.1% |
| Archibald Mercer | 554 | 17.6% | ||||
| Middle[4] | Thomas Henderson | 379 | 19.0% | James H. Imlay (I) | 1,614 | 81.0% |
| Southern[5] | Jonathan Elmer | 1,266 | 43.5% | Franklin Davenport | 1,644 | 56.5% |