Andrew Backus

U.S. House candidate

Home state: New York
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1808–1818

Career timeline

1808Rep 1818Rep

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Backus6

Opponents24,852

Elections run

Between 1808 and 1818, Andrew Backus ran in 2 U.S. House elections, losing all 2. Backus's biggest single-election total was 5 votes, in the 1818 U.S. House election in New York's District 21.

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How many votes has Andrew Backus received?

Andrew Backus has received 6 popular votes across 2 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–2.

Election history

Andrew Backus’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1818	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	5	Nathaniel Allen Albert Tracy Benjamin Ellicott Richmond Edward C Baker Warren P Bender House Evans Enos Pomeroy Lot Row Warner Miller David A Howell Alphonzo A Hopkins R S Stevens Philo Orton John Spencer Gamaliel H Barstow James O Cleveland Hezekiah L Hosmer Enoch Nobles John Lewis Childs Albert H Picketts A H Pickets Gideon Granger Wadsworth Lithgow Osborne Oliver Phelps Robert A Osborn Payne Moses Maynard Abraham Matteson Augustine J Marvin Harvey Montgomery Chauncey L Shelden William H Douglass Hill Alva Carpenter William D Stewart Robinson J Q Leak Porter Wm Filbe Amasa J Parker Ebenezer F Norton Elijah Holt Ezra Ludden Joel Dorman Thomas Hustler Smith Jonathan Child Louis W Elliott Wagener Jacob Steeples Myr Hody Israel Chapin Jonah Hallet Jenkins George McGunigher Daniel Cruger Thomas H Jackson Dunkirk Garnsey Amos J Cummings Josiah Churchill Wilhemus Myndrees Benjamin F Lewis William Carwell
1808	U.S. HouseNew York	Lost	10.02%	Barent Gardenier Charles C Dill Barnet Gardinier Joseph Masbrouck Garrit Abeel Joseph Hasbrouck Samuel Tenbroeck Petrus Elmendorph John Cantine E J Cook

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Compiled by PolitiFinder. Election results from official certified sources and the MIT Election Lab. See Data & sources and methodology. Data last verified July 28, 2026.