S Backus

U.S. House candidate

Home state: Connecticut
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1804–1816

Career timeline

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RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Backus9,658

Opponents126,660

Elections run

Between 1804 and 1816, S Backus ran in 2 U.S. House elections, losing all 2. Backus's biggest single-election total was 9,519 votes, in the 1816 U.S. House election in Connecticut's at-large district.

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How many votes has S Backus received?

S Backus has received 9,658 popular votes across 2 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–2.

Election history

S Backus’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1816	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	9,51913.52%	Denison Samuel Sherwood Timothy Pitkin (head-to-head) Jonathan Moseley (head-to-head) Thomas Williams Uriel Holmes Ebenezer Huntington Lyman Law Lewis Sturges (head-to-head) Epaphroditus Champion Asa Bacon Nathaniel Terry Sylvester Gilbert James Gould John Davenport (head-to-head) Smith Benjamin Tallmadge (head-to-head)
1804	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	1390.21%	Calvin Goddard Samuel Dana John Davenport (head-to-head) Roger Griswold Benjamin Tallmadge (head-to-head) John Smith Jonathan Moseley (head-to-head) Timothy Pitkin (head-to-head) Lewis Sturges (head-to-head) Theodore Dwight Epaph Champion Nathaniel Rossiter Samuel B Sherwood S Gilbert E Huntington J Caldwell Simeon Baldwin

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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.