1870 U.S. House election results

226 races · 226 with a recorded winner · popular vote by contest

Every U.S. House contest in the 1870 U.S. general election. Each race links to its full popular-vote breakdown; winners link to their profile. Part of the party vote tracker.

Alabama

1870 U.S. House results in Alabama
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Benjamin Turner R	18,226 votes · +4,760 over S J Cumming
District 2	Charles Buckley R	19,647 votes · +3,816 over M B Welbourn
District 3	William Handley D	12,710 votes · +3,142 over Benjamin W Norris
District 4	Charles Hays R	18,373 votes · +1,833 over Thomas Lee Harris
District 5	Peter Dox D	10,689 votes · +6,166 over L J Standifee
District 6	Joseph Sloss D	9,221 votes · +5,153 over John T Masterson

Arkansas

1870 U.S. House results in Arkansas
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Hanks D	5,394 votes · +1,996 over Logan H Roots
District 2	Oliver P Synder R	8,956 votes · +2,745 over Rogers
District 3	John Edwards D	6,874 votes · +955 over Thomas Boles

Delaware

1870 U.S. House results in Delaware
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Benjamin Biggs D	11,446 votes · +2,296 over Joshua T Heald

Florida

1870 U.S. House results in Florida
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Josiah T Walls R	12,439 votes · +629 over S L Niblack

Georgia

1870 U.S. House results in Georgia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	McIntyre D	15,581 votes · +5,919 over Junius Hillyer
District 2	Nelson Tift D	14,969 votes · +881 over Richard Whiteley
District 3	John Bigby R	14,212 votes · +1,563 over Wright
District 4	Thomas Speer R	11,211 votes · +486 over Winburn J Lawton
District 5	Dudley M Dubose D	15,363 votes · +6,061 over Isham S Fannin
District 6	William Price D	10,358 votes · +6,447 over John A Wimpey
District 7	Pierce Young D	14,768 votes · +9,511 over George P Burnett

Illinois

1870 U.S. House results in Illinois
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Charles L Logan R	168,801 votes · +23,610 over William B Anerson
District 1	Charles Farwell R	20,342 votes · +5,317 over John Wentworth
District 2	John Farnsworth R	8,396 votes · +1,880 over J C Stoughton
District 3	Horatio Burchard R	11,718 votes · +5,499 over Charles Betts
District 4	John Hawley R	12,023 votes · +41 over P L Cable
District 5	Bradford N Stephens D	11,579 votes · +1,616 over Robert G Ingersoll
District 6	Burton Cook R	10,452 votes · +2,613 over Julias Avery
District 7	Jesse Moore R	14,089 votes · +671 over Andrew J Hunter
District 8	James Robinson D	13,702 votes · +1,254 over Jonathan Merriam
District 9	Thompson W McNealy D	12,691 votes · +2,394 over B F Westlake
District 10	Edward Rice D	13,963 votes · +1,935 over Wickliff Kitchell
District 11	Samuel Marshall D	15,771 votes · +4,225 over George O Robinson
District 12	E T Rev Hays R	10,903 votes · +777 over William Hartzell
District 13	John M Crebbs D	13,947 votes · +1,581 over Daniel W Munn

Indiana

1870 U.S. House results in Indiana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	William Niblack D	17,577 votes · +2,250 over Hy C Gooding
District 2	Michael Kerr D	16,950 votes · +5,834 over Carr
District 3	William Holman D	15,396 votes · +2,424 over John Pritchard
District 4	Jeremiah Wilson R	12,561 votes · +4 over Hy C Gooding
District 5	John Coburn R	14,123 votes · +416 over Cottrell
District 6	Daniel Voorhees D	17,268 votes · +1,425 over W Dunn
District 7	Mahlon Manson D	15,539 votes · +393 over David Wallace
District 8	James Tyner R	15,113 votes · +1,964 over J T Henderson
District 9	John Shanks R	13,790 votes · +394 over Colerick
District 10	William Williams R	14,130 votes · +5,018 over M S Hascall
District 11	Jasper Packard R	14,459 votes · +1,407 over S I Anthony

Iowa

1870 U.S. House results in Iowa
District	Winner	Result
District 1	George W McCreary R	13,327 votes · +3,366 over Edmund Jaeger
District 2	Aylett Cotton R	13,586 votes · +4,248 over William E Leffingwell
District 3	William Donnan R	15,927 votes · +4,966 over John T Stoneman
District 4	Madison Walden R	19,005 votes · +4,122 over Jim Smith
District 5	Francis Palmer R	19,798 votes · +7,282 over B F Montgomery
District 6	Jackson Orr R	16,993 votes · +11,016 over C C Smettzer

Kansas

1870 U.S. House results in Kansas
District	Winner	Result
At-large	J G Lowe R	40,368 votes · +19,418 over R C Foster

Kentucky

1870 U.S. House results in Kentucky
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Edward Crossland D	7,930 votes · +4,948 over James D Black
District 2	Henry McHenry D	8,214 votes · +2,724 over Milton J Roach
District 3	Joseph Lewis D	7,314 votes · +1,657 over D R Carr
District 4	William Read D	9,314 votes · +5,483 over James M Fidler
District 5	Boyd Winchester D	10,599 votes · +5,173 over James Speed
District 6	William Arthur D	9,213 votes · +4,635 over Thomas Wrightson
District 7	James Beck D	14,312 votes · +3,396 over John Y Brown
District 8	George Adams D	12,226 votes · +18 over Hugh F Finley
District 9	John Rice D	9,823 votes · +3,360 over George M Thomas

Louisiana

1870 U.S. House results in Louisiana
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Jacob Sypher R	13,971 votes · +5,392 over William S Walker
District 2	Lionel Sheldon R	17,512 votes · +9,872 over John A Walsh
District 3	Chester Darrall R	13,202 votes · +4,719 over B W Bailey
District 4	James McCleery R	11,786 votes · +4,615 over Michael Ryan
District 5	Frank Morey R	9,521 votes · +2,808 over J Louis Watkins

Maine

1870 U.S. House results in Maine
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Lynch R	12,571 votes · +1,496 over Haines
District 2	William Frye R	10,245 votes · +2,321 over Black
District 3	James Blaine R	11,590 votes · +2,311 over E Wilder Farley
District 4	John Peters R	9,962 votes · +2,640 over William Emery
District 5	Eugene Hale R	10,086 votes · +1,210 over A L Carlton

Maryland

1870 U.S. House results in Maryland
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Samuel Hambleton D	17,314 votes · +3,966 over Henry R Torbert
District 2	Stevenson Archer D	14,622 votes · +6,560 over Marine
District 3	Thomas Swann D	15,137 votes · +4,723 over Washington Booth
District 4	John Ritchie D	14,304 votes · +1,818 over Smith
District 5	William Merrick D	15,231 votes · +1,791 over James A Gary

Massachusetts

1870 U.S. House results in Massachusetts
District	Winner	Result
District 1	James Buffinton R	8,281 votes · +5,614 over Robert Pitnam
District 2	Oakes Ames R	9,367 votes · +3,354 over Edward Avery
District 3	Ginery Twichell R	6,233 votes · +593 over William Gaiton
District 4	Samuel Hooper R	8,025 votes · +2,420 over Morse
District 5	Benjamin Butler R	8,333 votes · +4,036 over William Endicott
District 6	Nathaniel Banks R	10,548 votes · +5,425 over John K Tarbox
District 7	George Brooks R	8,406 votes · +3,845 over John Q Adams
District 8	George Hoar R	8,487 votes · +4,205 over Sherwin L Cook
District 9	William Washburn R	10,903 votes · +6,718 over Lysander B Jaquith
District 10	Henry Dawes R	8,419 votes · +1,342 over Reuben Noble

Michigan

1870 U.S. House results in Michigan
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Henry Waldron R	18,348 votes · +901 over Nathaniel B Eldridge
District 2	William Stoughton R	17,502 votes · +3,579 over Henry Chamberlain
District 3	Austin Blair R	15,236 votes · +1,468 over D D Hughes
District 4	Thos W Ferry R	16,854 votes · +6,470 over Myron Rider
District 5	Omar Conger R	13,782 votes · +189 over Byron G Stout
District 6	Jabez Sutherland D	16,618 votes · +1,739 over John F Driggs

Minnesota

1870 U.S. House results in Minnesota
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Mark Dunnell R	19,606 votes · +4,702 over Buck
District 2	John Averill R	17,133 votes · +2,642 over I Donnelly

Missouri

1870 U.S. House results in Missouri
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Erastus Wells D	7,629 votes · +2,185 over Lowell R Johnson
District 2	Gustavus Finkelnburg R	12,708 votes · +11,349 over A Vanwormer
District 3	James McCormick D	7,572 votes · +5,241 over G J Vanallen
District 4	Harrison Havens R	8,830 votes · +1,414 over William E Gilmore
District 5	Samuel Burdett R	10,790 votes · +1,724 over Smith
District 6	Abram Comingo D	12,511 votes · +3,793 over Smith
District 7	Isaac Parker R	13,713 votes · +2,990 over Edgar C Ellis
District 8	James Blair R	11,710 votes · +2,604 over J T K Hayward
District 9	Andrew King D	10,393 votes · +6,590 over Dyer

Nebraska

1870 U.S. House results in Nebraska
District	Winner	Result
At-large	John Taffe R	12,375 votes · +4,408 over George B Lake

Nevada

1870 U.S. House results in Nevada
District	Winner	Result
At-large	Charles Kendall D	6,821 votes · +660 over Thomas Fitch

New Jersey

1870 U.S. House results in New Jersey
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John W Hazleton R	14,502 votes · +2,033 over Lee
District 2	Samuel Forker D	15,899 votes · +447 over Newell
District 3	John Bird D	18,007 votes · +3,684 over James F Rusling
District 4	John Hill R	18,057 votes · +2,753 over Philip Rafferty
District 5	George Halsey R	18,092 votes · +3,398 over Orestes Cleveland

New York

1870 U.S. House results in New York
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Dwight Townsend D	12,632 votes · +1,166 over Caleb C Norvell
District 2	Thomas Kinsella D	20,704 votes · +8,222 over Henry R Dutcher
District 3	Henry Slocum D	13,799 votes · +5,176 over Alexander Webster
District 4	Robert Roosevelt D	10,702 votes · +5,201 over McMahon
District 5	William Roberts D	14,556 votes · +12,341 over Richard M Briggs
District 6	Samuel Cox D	9,228 votes · +1,025 over Horace Greeley
District 7	Smith Ely D	12,514 votes · +9,011 over McAlpin
District 8	James Brooks D	12,845 votes · +5,497 over George Wilkes
District 9	Fernando Wood D	15,630 votes · +10,841 over Mary W Hillyer
District 10	Clarkson Potter D	14,249 votes · +3,564 over Benjamin F Westervelt Jr.
District 11	Saintjohn R	11,247 votes · +500 over Arthur O Sherman
District 12	John Ketcham R	14,432 votes · +2,684 over Philip
District 13	Joseph Tuthill D	11,559 votes · +302 over Eleazer Lindsley
District 14	Eli Perry D	17,716 votes · +2,990 over Harder
District 15	Joseph Warren D	17,793 votes · +6,134 over John G Davis
District 16	John Rogers D	9,444 votes · +172 over Williams
District 17	William Wheeler R	13,020 votes · +7,321 over Vancleve C Mott
District 18	John Carroll D	14,828 votes · +1,438 over Augustine J Marvin
District 19	Elizur Prindle R	16,752 votes · +2,363 over Juliand
District 20	Clinton Merriam R	14,863 votes · +1,964 over Andrew C Cornwall
District 21	Ellis Roberts R	12,322 votes · +1,716 over Weaver
District 22	William Lansing R	13,450 votes · +3,670 over M J Shoecraft
District 23	Rodolphus Duell R	12,954 votes · +2,414 over John McCarthy
District 24	John Seeley R	15,276 votes · +3,142 over William H Daniels
District 25	William Lamport R	12,115 votes · +2,748 over Adam Comstock
District 26	Milo Goodrich R	15,471 votes · +3,442 over Apgar
District 27	Horace Smith R	16,276 votes · +2,924 over Robinson
District 28	Freeman Clarke R	13,844 votes · +2,657 over Elmer S White
District 29	Seth Wakeman R	12,134 votes · +3,095 over James G Shepard
District 30	William Williams D	15,018 votes · +603 over Bass
District 31	Walter Sessions R	10,170 votes · +377 over Ambrose S Murray

North Carolina

1870 U.S. House results in North Carolina
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Clinton Cobb R	10,054 votes · +3,534 over Ernest M Morgan
District 2	Charles Thomas R	15,099 votes · +2,747 over Lott W Humphrey
District 3	Alfred WaddellC	13,828 votes · +351 over Oliver H Dockery
District 4	Sion RogersC	14,106 votes · +905 over S Harris
District 5	James LeachC	12,541 votes · +1,239 over Jerry C Scott
District 6	Francis ShoberC	12,474 votes · +4,150 over Frederick H Sprague
District 7	James HarperC	10,967 votes · +2,594 over A H Jones

Ohio

1870 U.S. House results in Ohio
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Aaron Perry R	8,039 votes · +745 over Milton Sayler
District 2	Job Stevenson R	9,294 votes · +1,549 over Samuel F Cary
District 3	Lewis Campbell D	14,838 votes · +53 over Robert Schenck
District 4	John McKinney D	11,966 votes · +225 over James K McClung
District 5	Charles Lamison D	11,997 votes · +3,103 over A B Clark
District 6	John Smith R	12,063 votes · +236 over James W Denver
District 7	Samuel Shellabarger R	13,488 votes · +1,428 over H Jewett
District 8	John Beatty R	10,610 votes · +1,160 over James R Hubbell
District 9	Charles Foster R	13,274 votes · +776 over Edward F Dickinson
District 10	Erasmus Peck R	11,302 votes · +1,060 over Lockwood
District 11	John Wilson R	11,294 votes · +1,105 over Ralph Leete
District 12	P Vantrump D	14,123 votes · +3,858 over Oliver Brown
District 13	George Morgan D	14,196 votes · +2,149 over C W Potwin
District 14	James Monroe R	12,271 votes · +726 over A B Critchfield
District 15	William Sprague R	11,263 votes · +716 over John Cartwright
District 16	John Bingham R	12,435 votes · +477 over James M Chambers Jr.
District 17	Jacob Ambler R	11,685 votes · +2,171 over J F Ball
District 18	William Upson R	11,053 votes · +4,358 over John B Coffinberry
District 19	James A. Garfield R	13,538 votes · +6,275 over William Howard

Oregon

1870 U.S. House results in Oregon
District	Winner	Result
At-large	James H Slater D	11,588 votes · +343 over Joseph G Wilson

Pennsylvania

1870 U.S. House results in Pennsylvania
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Samuel Randall D	10,853 votes · +4,148 over Benjamin Huckell
District 2	John Creely D	11,059 votes · +925 over Charles Oneill
District 3	Leonard Myers R	9,778 votes · +1,325 over David Moffet
District 4	William Kelley R	14,324 votes · +2,702 over William H Thomas
District 5	Alfred Harmer R	11,561 votes · +160 over John R Reading
District 6	Ephraim Acker D	12,049 votes · +977 over W Oliver
District 7	Washington Townsend R	10,408 votes · +2,177 over J H Askin
District 8	James Getz D	10,411 votes · +5,366 over Hunter
District 9	Oliver Dickey R	9,722 votes · +2,311 over A K Witmer
District 10	John Killinger R	11,326 votes · +629 over C D Gloninger
District 11	John Storm D	12,454 votes · +7,185 over Dewitt C Davis
District 12	Lazarus Shoemaker R	13,279 votes · +1,220 over J B McCollom
District 13	Ulysses Mercur R	11,117 votes · +124 over Chas B Brockway
District 14	John Packer R	13,620 votes · +2,354 over W J Scott
District 15	Richard J Holdeman D	13,866 votes · +3,450 over William B Rober
District 16	Benjamin Meyers D	12,859 votes · +15 over Howard Cessna
District 17	Robert Speer D	10,335 votes · +11 over Daniel J Morrell
District 18	Henry Sherwood D	13,205 votes · +27 over M B Armstrong
District 19	Glenni Scofield R	13,055 votes · +604 over Selden Marvin
District 20	Samuel Griffith D	14,146 votes · +769 over Calvin W Gilfillan
District 21	Henry Foster D	12,399 votes · +730 over J Baker Stewart
District 22	James Negley R	11,230 votes · +3,212 over James H Hopkins
District 23	Ebenezer McJunkin R	12,591 votes · +3,700 over William Sirwell
District 24	William McClelland D	12,264 votes · +759 over James B Donley

Rhode Island

1870 U.S. House results in Rhode Island
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Benjamin Eames R	4,952 votes · +2,975 over Thomas A Jenckes
District 2	James Pendleton R	1,457 votes · +516 over Rodman

South Carolina

1870 U.S. House results in South Carolina
District	Winner	Result
At-large	J P M Epping R	71,803 votes · +61 over L Wimbush
District 1	Joseph Rainey R	20,221 votes · +8,593 over C W Dudley
District 2	Robert C Delarge R	16,686 votes · +986 over A H Bowen
District 3	Robert Elliott R	20,664 votes · +6,670 over John E Bacon
District 4	Alexander Wallace R	16,746 votes · +3,304 over Isaac G McKissick

Tennessee

1870 U.S. House results in Tennessee
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Roderick Butler R	6,584 votes · +605 over James White
District 2	Horace Maynard R	8,351 votes · +532 over A Blizard
District 3	Abraham Garrett D	9,602 votes · +5,434 over Stokes
District 4	John Bright D	11,827 votes · +9,984 over James Mullins
District 5	Edward J Golliday D	7,991 votes · +2,563 over William F Prosser
District 6	Washington C Whithorn D	9,057 votes · +6,241 over T J Cypert
District 7	Robert Caldwell D	8,227 votes · +6,379 over John Norman
District 8	William Vaughan D	13,990 votes · +8,644 over Smith

Vermont

1870 U.S. House results in Vermont
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Charles Willard R	10,476 votes · +6,801 over Francis J Cain
District 2	Luke Poland R	10,479 votes · +7,273 over Alden Partridge
District 3	Worthington Smith R	9,116 votes · +6,069 over Henry Gillett

Virginia

1870 U.S. House results in Virginia
District	Winner	Result
At-large	J W DanielC	78,437 votes
District 1	John CritcherC	10,252 votes · +3,634 over Walter W Douglas
District 2	James Platt R	15,880 votes · +4,978 over Bolling
District 3	Charles Porter R	13,555 votes · +2,908 over Albert Ordway
District 4	William Stowell R	13,205 votes · +3,216 over William L Owen
District 5	Richard DukeC	12,596 votes · +1,166 over J Henry Rives
District 6	John HarrisC	7,006 votes · +2,415 over Corbin M Reynolds
District 7	Elliott BraxtonC	12,719 votes · +1,516 over Lewis McKenzie
District 8	William TerryC	9,916 votes · +5,899 over McMullen

West Virginia

1870 U.S. House results in West Virginia
District	Winner	Result
District 1	John Davis D	11,630 votes · +1,061 over I H Goff
District 2	James McGrew R	9,011 votes · +913 over O P Downey
District 3	Frank Hereford D	8,732 votes · +1,543 over Witcher

Wisconsin

1870 U.S. House results in Wisconsin
District	Winner	Result
District 1	Alexander Mitchell D	16,558 votes · +4,308 over Lyon
District 2	Gerry Hazelton R	11,467 votes · +1,899 over Francis S Cook
District 3	Joel Barber R	11,503 votes · +3,346 over Strachan
District 4	Charles Eldredge D	15,019 votes · +5,963 over Watrous
District 5	Philetus Sawyer R	17,258 votes · +5,436 over Stringm
District 6	Jeremiah Rusk R	15,042 votes · +5,528 over Meggett