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Governor Races
To defeat an incumbent is no easy feat, and Jeremiah Smith failed to do it in New Hampshire, going down in a surprisingly closer than anticipated race to Benjamin Pierce, who retained his spot in the statehouse for the Democratic-Republicans.

And as expected, there was no hope for John Bayard to unseat John Lambert in New Jersey, even with the full contingent of Federalist voters turning out.

It was the story everywhere, as the Democratic-Republicans yielded not one single governor's residence to the Federalists.

House Races
CT-1: Theodore Dwight (1, Moderate)
Prior to the voting, it was considered a dead heat between Theodore Dwight and incumbent Elijah Boardman. Just as the primary was passionate, so too, was enthusiasm and turnout high in this one. And Connecticut continued to be a Red bastion, with Dwight just scraping out the win to officially give the Federalists their first Representative back in the House! A second came when Lyman Law won an even tinier victory in the CT-2 race, The Constitution State turned fully red!

Delaware's lone seat also flipped Red, making it a 3 for 3 night to start for the Federalists. That streak ended in Georgia's seat, but it was nonetheless a banner night already for the Reds compared to where they were the previous term.

Philip J Schuyler was actually a very slight favorite in New York's 4th District, and by the smallest of margins, pulled out the win against DeWitt Clinton, giving the Moderate Federalists their second seat in the House!

An even bigger favorite: Amos Slaymaker in Pennsylvania's District 2. But like Schuyler, he only won by a hairsbreadth despite the odds. It still counted, and seat #3 for the Moderate Federalists!

The Federalists made other gains, too - picking up the Massachusetts District 1 seat and scoring a tremendous upset in District 3 as well. They also very nearly unseated Samuel Adams in District 4. Other Red gains: New Hampshire in a minor upset, New York's 2nd District in a bigger upset, and a minor upset in Virginia's 4th District in a state where many districts saw no Federalist candidates

In less happy news for the Moderate Federalists, there was no hope for George Dent to steal a win in Maryland District 1 as predicted. And in Mississippi, Winthrop Sargent was blockaded from appointing a representative, and the people, irate at the governor's despotism, turned out in full force to install a Democratic-Republican as their voice in the House. Likewise, there was literally no chance Nathaniel Macon, the Speaker of the House, was going to lose to Gabriel Holmes in North Carolina's District 2. Jacob Burnet had almost no shot at winning in the Ohio seated and was routed handily.

Still, as contemporary accounts noted, it was about as good a night as the Moderate Federalists could have hoped for, and the Federalists as a whole, though disappointed at not taking a few state mansions, nonetheless had to be thrilled about the number of successes they scored in the House.

What transpired was Connecticut solidifying itself as Federalist country, Delaware, Massachusetts and New York turning purple, and inroads made into New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and [b]Virginia]. Or, to put it another way, there was a Federalist revival in the New England region and parts of the Mid-Atlantic, while the South and the West remained steadfastly Democratic-Republican.

Still, it was a sign that Thomas Jefferson's grip on the country was not quite so iron as most people believed...