Mapping Early American Elections

5th Congress: Tennessee 1797

Tennessee elected one Democratic-Republican to the Fifth Congress.

The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns at the town or county level.

Tennessee re-elected Andrew Jackson to serve in the Fifth Congress. In September 1797, Jackson resigned from the House of Representatives in order to accept a seat in the US Senate. Tennessee held a special election which elected William Charles Cole Claiborne, which is the election presented here.

In most cases, only candidates who received more than 5 percent of the vote in a district are reported. Other candidates are reported as a group, but only if they in aggregate received more than 5 percent of the vote. In addition, percentages for each district may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding. The term Dissenting Republican includes various breakaway factions of the Democratic-Republican party.

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• TN US Congress 1797 At Large