1856 U.S. House election results

146 races · 146 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every U.S. House contest in the 1856 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

Arkansas

1856 U.S. House results in Arkansas
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Alfred Greenwood D	15,399 votes · +9,238 over Thomason
District 2	Edward Warren D	11,835 votes · +3,134 over A S Fowler

California

1856 U.S. House results in California
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Joseph C McKibben D	50,895 votes · +82 over Charles Scott

Delaware

1856 U.S. House results in Delaware
District	Winner	Result
At-large	William Whiteley D	8,111 votes · +1,751 over Elisha Cullen

Florida

1856 U.S. House results in Florida
District	Winner	Result
At-large	George S Hawkins D	6,392 votes · +742 over James M Baker

Illinois

1856 U.S. House results in Illinois
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Elihu Washburne R	18,401 votes · +12,174 over Richard S S Malony
District 2	John Farnsworth R	21,518 votes · +11,704 over John Vannortwick
District 3	Owen Lovejoy R	19,068 votes · +6,061 over * Osgood
District 4	William Kellogg R	16,175 votes · +1,701 over James W Davison
District 5	Isaac Morris D	12,059 votes · +1,765 over Jackson Grimshaw
District 6	Thomas Harris D	14,196 votes · +2,119 over Martin Williams
District 7	Aaron Shaw D	12,994 votes · +3,116 over Henry P H Bromwell
District 8	Robert Smith D	11,299 votes · +3,787 over I D Lansing
District 9	Samuel Marshall D	15,968 votes · +12,549 over E R Wiley

Indiana

1856 U.S. House results in Indiana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Lockhart D	12,747 votes · +4,770 over Veach
District 2	William English D	10,577 votes · +2,650 over R P Wilson
District 3	James Hughes D	10,629 votes · +1,516 over Hendks
District 4	James Foley D	10,451 votes · +1,453 over William Cumback
District 5	David Kilgore R	11,132 votes · +3,949 over W J Johnson
District 6	James Gregg D	11,787 votes · +947 over Coburn
District 7	John Davis D	11,137 votes · +1,608 over Usher
District 8	James Wilson R	11,302 votes · +230 over Voorhees
District 9	Schuyler Colfax R	12,921 votes · +1,031 over Stuart
District 10	Samuel Brenton R	10,699 votes · +710 over Lowry
District 11	John Pettit R	11,235 votes · +792 over Garver

Iowa

1856 U.S. House results in Iowa
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Samuel Curtis R	18,065 votes · +955 over Augustus Hall
District 2	Timothy Davis R	21,888 votes · +6,020 over Shepherd Leffler

Maine

1856 U.S. House results in Maine
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Wood R	11,215 votes · +1,439 over Henry Little
District 2	Charles Gilman R	12,953 votes · +3,283 over O S Pillsbury
District 3	Nehemiah Abbott R	10,562 votes · +2,310 over H Ingalls
District 4	BronsonC	7,378 votes · +6,003 over Freeman Morse
District 5	Israel Washburn R	12,517 votes · +4,205 over Sanborn
District 6	Stephen Foster R	8,503 votes · +936 over Wiswell

Massachusetts

1856 U.S. House results in Massachusetts
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Robert Hall R	7,904 votes · +6,074 over Moses Bates Jr.
District 2	James Buffington R	11,658 votes · +8,344 over Charles R Vickery
District 3	William Damrell R	10,433 votes · +5,356 over Arthur W Austin
District 4	Linus Comins R	5,188 votes · +757 over Edward W Greene
District 5	Anson BurlingameA	6,582 votes · +69 over William Appleton
District 6	Timothy Davis R	10,044 votes · +6,830 over Nathaniel J Lord
District 7	Nathaniel P Bank Jr.R	10,814 votes · +6,221 over George F Wright
District 8	Chauncey Knapp R	9,616 votes · +5,930 over Frederick Butler
District 9	Eli Thayer R	8,920 votes · +4,506 over Alexander Dewitt
District 10	Calvin Chaffee R	10,845 votes · +6,764 over James Fowler
District 11	Henry Dawes R	6,709 votes · +2,311 over Geishom Weston

Michigan

1856 U.S. House results in Michigan
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William Howard R	13,658 votes · +867 over George Lathrop
District 2	Henry Waldron R	16,467 votes · +6,403 over David Q Barry
District 3	David Walbridge R	23,970 votes · +7,702 over Flavius Littlejohn
District 4	De Leach R	18,715 votes · +3,529 over George Peck

Missouri

1856 U.S. House results in Missouri
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Francis Blair D	6,035 votes · +486 over Luther Kennett
District 2	Thomas AndersonA	8,876 votes · +727 over Richmond
District 3	John R Green D	10,126 votes · +1,954 over James Lindley
District 4	James Craig D	8,742 votes · +2,468 over St Clair Moss
District 5	Samuel WoodsonA	6,006 votes · +1,322 over Thomas H Douglas
District 6	John Phelps D	9,718 votes · +2,807 over Emerson
District 7	Samuel Caruthers D	8,291 votes · +3,408 over Perryman

New Jersey

1856 U.S. House results in New Jersey
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Isaiah ClawsonF	9,673 votes · +2,322 over Hineline
District 2	George RobbinsF	11,723 votes · +1,031 over Wall
District 3	Garnett Adrain D	10,781 votes · +1,013 over James Bishop
District 4	John Huyler D	9,165 votes · +3,289 over Osborne
District 5	Wortene D	9,099 votes · +2,619 over Job Dodd

New York

1856 U.S. House results in New York
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Searing D	8,960 votes · +3,068 over John J Jennings
District 2	George Taylor D	8,591 votes · +2,722 over Stranhan
District 3	Daniel Sickles D	5,716 votes · +2,811 over Duganne
District 4	John Kelly D	8,319 votes · +6,584 over H Gould
District 5	William Maclay D	5,863 votes · +2,065 over Northp
District 6	John Cochrane D	7,531 votes · +3,540 over Stillman
District 7	Elijah Ward D	6,531 votes · +2,070 over Richard M Briggs
District 8	Horace Clark D	7,482 votes · +3,722 over Abram Wakeman
District 9	John Haskin D	7,195 votes · +1,260 over Strang
District 10	Ambrose Murray R	6,156 votes · +575 over J Samuel Fowler
District 11	William Russell D	6,878 votes · +976 over Fream
District 12	John Thompson R	9,247 votes · +1,275 over Calvin Chamberlain
District 13	Abram Olin R	5,206 votes · +448 over Gaylord Griswold
District 14	Erastus Corning D	8,296 votes · +3,201 over Andrew J Perry
District 15	Edward Dodd R	11,717 votes · +6,084 over Floyd Cramer
District 16	George Palmer R	6,799 votes · +2,436 over William Averill
District 17	Francis Spinner R	14,722 votes · +8,607 over Dodge
District 18	Clark Cochrane R	9,719 votes · +3,596 over Rossiter
District 19	Oliver Morse R	10,724 votes · +1,843 over Harry C Gregory
District 20	Orsamus Matteson R	10,618 votes · +2,343 over Johnson
District 21	Henry Bennett R	13,357 votes · +5,165 over Caleb Hyde
District 22	Henry Goodwin R	14,380 votes · +8,300 over Bert Clark
District 23	Charles Hoard R	11,149 votes · +5,079 over Dorwin
District 24	Amos Granger R	9,748 votes · +5,223 over James A Peck
District 25	Edwin Morgan R	12,631 votes · +8,946 over Richmond
District 26	Emory Pottle R	9,368 votes · +4,957 over Andrew Oliver
District 27	John Parker R	12,383 votes · +4,006 over Clarence Hathaway
District 28	William Kelsey R	10,509 votes · +5,614 over Hallett
District 29	Samuel Andrews R	7,786 votes · +3,449 over Harry W Paine
District 30	Judson Sherman R	13,867 votes · +8,835 over Richmond
District 31	Silas Burroughs R	6,885 votes · +2,191 over J L N Hunt
District 32	Israel Hatch D	7,399 votes · +476 over Spaulding
District 33	Reuben Fenton R	12,046 votes · +8,610 over D Frank Allen

Ohio

1856 U.S. House results in Ohio
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Pendton D	6,133 votes · +1,877 over Frederick L Taft
District 2	William Groesbeck D	5,738 votes · +1,395 over Gurley
District 3	Lewis Campbell R	9,338 votes · +19 over Clement Vallandigham
District 4	Matthias Nichols R	9,415 votes · +243 over William Dorsey
District 5	Richard Mott R	10,018 votes · +861 over Edgerton
District 6	Cockerell D	8,603 votes · +1,143 over Jonas Emrie
District 7	Aaron Harlan R	9,027 votes · +3,951 over Durbin Ward
District 8	Benjamin Stanton R	9,756 votes · +3,546 over Runkle
District 9	Lawrence Hall D	9,561 votes · +179 over Cooper Watson
District 10	Joseph Miller D	7,403 votes · +1,770 over Hoffman
District 11	Valentine Horton R	10,272 votes · +345 over Medill
District 12	Samuel Cox D	8,938 votes · +356 over Samuel Galloway
District 13	John Sherman R	9,926 votes · +2,861 over Bramback
District 14	Philemon Bliss R	10,414 votes · +2,797 over Firestone
District 15	Joseph Burns D	9,194 votes · +51 over William Sapp
District 16	Cydnor Tompkins R	7,248 votes · +786 over Amor Smith
District 17	William Lawrence D	8,085 votes · +1,280 over Charles Albright
District 18	Benjamin Leiter R	9,394 votes · +2,595 over Lahm
District 19	Edward Wade R	9,431 votes · +4,964 over Hilliard
District 20	Joshua Giddings R	9,567 votes · +4,772 over Burchard
District 21	John Bingham R	9,444 votes · +2,511 over Frank W Woods

Pennsylvania

1856 U.S. House results in Pennsylvania
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Thomas Florence D	9,495 votes · +2,220 over Harold G Knight
District 2	Edward MorrisU	6,411 votes · +393 over Marsll
District 3	James Landy D	7,933 votes · +1,180 over Millwd
District 4	Henry Phillips D	9,279 votes · +2,719 over Forst
District 5	Owen Jones D	9,674 votes · +1,713 over Mulvany
District 6	John Hickman D	8,024 votes · +173 over Sam Bowen
District 7	Henry Chapman D	10,321 votes · +1,532 over Samuel Bradshaw
District 8	Jehu Jones D	9,951 votes · +6,004 over Yoder
District 9	Anthony RobertsU	10,001 votes · +1,681 over Daniel Heister
District 10	John KunkelU	9,227 votes · +1,867 over Eyer
District 11	William Dewart D	8,959 votes · +2,541 over James Campbell
District 12	John Montgomery D	10,442 votes · +2,785 over L A Smith
District 13	William Dimmick D	11,235 votes · +6,170 over E S Dimk
District 14	Galusha Grow R	13,325 votes · +7,964 over Sherwd
District 15	Allison White D	9,980 votes · +530 over John J Irwin
District 16	John Ahl D	11,191 votes · +1,521 over Lemuel Todd
District 17	Wilson Reilly D	10,224 votes · +509 over Pumroy
District 18	John EdieU	8,792 votes · +284 over Pershing
District 19	John CovodeU	10,409 votes · +1,685 over H C McKinley
District 20	William Montgomery D	10,256 votes · +845 over Jonathan Knight
District 21	David Ritchie R	7,674 votes · +1,730 over McCans
District 22	Samuel Purviance R	6,840 votes · +1,986 over Morris E Gibson
District 23	William StewartU	8,552 votes · +3,085 over Cungm
District 24	James Gillis D	9,785 votes · +671 over Henry F Myers
District 25	John Dick R	8,944 votes · +4,729 over McFadn

South Carolina

1856 U.S. House results in South Carolina
District	Winner	Result
District 2	William Miles D	2,323 votes · +639 over James Gadsden

Vermont

1856 U.S. House results in Vermont
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Eliakim Walton R	10,398 votes · +7,156 over Needhm
District 2	Justin Morrill R	13,695 votes · +9,337 over Dudley Chase
District 3	Homer Royce R	9,116 votes · +5,982 over Bingm

Wisconsin

1856 U.S. House results in Wisconsin
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Potter R	13,111 votes · +297 over Hadley
District 2	Cadwallader Washburn R	26,004 votes · +9,771 over George Crawford
District 3	Charles Billinghurst R	25,808 votes · +2,160 over A Hobart