Josiah Hornblower

U.S. House candidate

Home state: New Jersey
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1789–1820

Career timeline

1789Rep 1820Rep

0-2

RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Hornblower866

Opponents95,109

Elections run

Between 1789 and 1820, Josiah Hornblower ran in 2 U.S. House elections, losing all 2. Hornblower's biggest single-election total was 708 votes, in the 1789 U.S. House election in New Jersey's at-large district.

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How many votes has Josiah Hornblower received?

Josiah Hornblower has received 866 popular votes across 2 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–2.

Election history

Josiah Hornblower’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1820	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	1580.54%	Ephraim Bateman George Holcombe George Cassedy Samuel Swan John Linn James Matlack Lewis Condict Frederick Frelinghuysen (head-to-head) James Parker (head-to-head) John Rutherford (head-to-head) Joseph McIlvaine Henry Southard Joseph Hopkinson Charles Kinsey Thomas T Kinney Richard Stockton A C Thompson Charles Ewing Abraham Ogden (head-to-head) Caleb Newbold Benjamin Bennett Jesse Upson Bernard Smith John Condit James Wilson
1789	U.S. HouseNew Jersey	Lost	7081.06%	James Schureman Elias Boudinot Lambert Cadwalader Thomas Sinnickson Clark Jr. Jonathan Dayton Whitten Cripps Robert Hoops John Witherspoon Benjamin Van Cleve James Parker (head-to-head) Thomas Henderson Robert Hooper Stevens James Linn Abraham Kitchell James Parks William Winds John Fell Thomas Fenimore Silas Condict Abraham Ogden (head-to-head) Henry Stiles Thomas C Stewart Benjamin Thomson Alvgander McWhorter John Sheppard John Rutherford (head-to-head) William Woodhull Samuel Tuthill Frederick Frelinghuysen (head-to-head) Jacob Hardenburgh Hughes Job Smith John Mehelm Patrick Dennis John Armstrong John Neilson

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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.