1791 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia
Georgia switched to a conventional district system for the Second Congress. At the time, the districts were not numbered, but are retroactively renumbered as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively here.
| District | Incumbent | Party | First elected |
Result | Candidates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia 1 "Southern (or Eastern) District" |
James Jackson | Anti-Administration | 1789 | Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Administration hold. Election was subsequently challenged, the House determined that electoral fraud had occurred, and the seat was declared void. |
√ Anthony Wayne (Anti-Administration) 50.4% James Jackson (Anti-Administration) 49.5% Others 0.2% |
| Georgia 2 "Middle District" |
Abraham Baldwin | Anti-Administration | 1789 | Incumbent re-elected. | √ Abraham Baldwin (Anti-Administration) 56.2% Thomas P. Carnes (Anti-Administration) James Jackson (Anti-Administration) 1.2% John Jones 0.3% |
| Georgia 3 "Northern (or Western) District" |
George Mathews | Anti-Administration | 1789 | Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Anti-Administration hold. |
√ Francis Willis (Anti-Administration) 66.5% George Mathews (Anti-Administration) 33.5% |
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See also
- United States House of Representatives elections, 1790 and 1791
- List of United States Representatives from Georgia
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