Elijah P Pike

U.S. House candidate

Home state: Maine
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1823–1872

Career timeline

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Pike19,680

Opponents47,902

Elections run

Between 1823 and 1872, Elijah P Pike ran in 5 U.S. House elections, losing all 5. Pike's biggest single-election total was 11,300 votes, in the 1872 U.S. House election in Maine's District 5.

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How many votes has Elijah P Pike received?

Elijah P Pike has received 19,680 popular votes across 5 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–5.

Election history

Elijah P Pike’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1872	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	11,30044.34%	Eugene Hale
1850	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	4,62945.17%	Thomas Fuller William H Foster
1846	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	3,74038.62%	Hezekiah Williams
1823	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	10.02%	Thomas G Thornton William Burleigh B G McIntire Isaac Lane (head-to-head) Edward P Hayman Benjamin Greene Peter M McDonald Joseph Prime George W Wallingford John Bowdoin Charles E Allen Ether Shepley John Spring James Ayer Samuel E Smith Enoch Wood Joshua Goodwin W P Thompson A K Parris D A H Powers Tucker Kimball Joshua Hall John Bodwell Timothy Shaw Israel Lassell Seth S Fairfield David Legrow Joseph Dane Samuel Fox Cyrus 11ll G D Weeks Samuel Burbank John M Parsons Phinehas Ricken P G Hooper Samuel Shapleigh Exekiel Whitman W A Tucker O S Pillsbury Thomas Sands Henry Woodman Lane Isaac Abner Sawyer David Appleton Moses Garey Simon Nowell Sulvester Haley L B Swett Alexander Rice Carver Buker Henry Hobbs Silas Whood John Huston
1823	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	100.2%	M T Obrien Alfred Johnson Edmund Abbot William Abbott Aaron Holbrook Jonathan Weston Jeremiah Balch James W Webster Ebenezer Calderwood Isaac Lane (head-to-head) William Avery Charles Jarvis David Billings John Wilson Enoch Low Henry Little F H Haskell Ebenezer Williams Frederick Ruggles David Baaley Josiah Fernald Daniel Stickney Pashan M Cobb Nathaniel Fidder D R Hastings

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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.