Cornelius Harrison

U.S. House candidate

Home state: New Jersey
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1791–1932

Career timeline

1791Rep 1808Rep 1813Rep 1814Rep 1932Rep

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Harrison72,531

Opponents454,558

Elections run

Between 1791 and 1932, Cornelius Harrison ran in 5 U.S. House elections, losing all 5. Harrison's biggest single-election total was 41,901 votes, in the 1932 U.S. House election in New Jersey's District 10.

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How many votes has Cornelius Harrison received?

Cornelius Harrison has received 72,531 popular votes across 5 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–5.

Election history

Cornelius Harrison’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1932	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	41,90143.38%	Fred Hartley Andrew P Wittel Mary Rozanski
1814	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	16,101	Ephraim Bateman Ezra Baker Benjamin Bennet Thomas Ward Henry Southard (head-to-head) Lewis Condict Frederick Frelinghuysen James Parker (head-to-head) James Giles John N Cumming Benjamin Thomson
1813	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	10.01%	William Coxe Jacob Hufty (head-to-head) Ebenezer Elmer (head-to-head) Thomas Hendry Isaiah Shinn Lee Franklin Davenport (head-to-head) John F Hall Robert Hooper (head-to-head) James Sloan
1808	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	14,4967.26%	Henry Southard (head-to-head) Adam Boyd William Helms Thomas Newbold James Cox Jacob Hufty (head-to-head) John Beatty (head-to-head) William Coxe William Campfield John Neilson Abraham Ogden (head-to-head)
1791	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	320.1%	Abraham Clark Jonathan Dayton Elias Boudinot Aaron Kitchell James Cadwalader James Linn Thomas Sinnickson Robert Hoops Thomas Henderson John Witherspoon John Beatty (head-to-head) John Sheppard Abraham Ogden (head-to-head) Joseph Ellis James Schureman John Harring Joseph Hugg Samuel Dick Bayard Job Smith Ebenezer Elmer (head-to-head) Jeremiah Eldridge Franklin Davenport (head-to-head) Robert Hooper (head-to-head) Richard Howell Samuel Sharp Joseph Bloomfield Batoman Lloyd James Parker (head-to-head) Archibald Campbell William Euguisjinsky Garrit Lydulum Abraham Ryerson Harvey Lord John Benson Adonijah Schuyler George J Dooremus

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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.