Mapping Early American Elections


11th Congress: North Carolina 1808

North Carolina elected four Federalists and eight Democratic-Republicans to the Eleventh Congress.

North Carolina used the district system for electing members to Congress.

District Candidate Party Vote Percentage Elected
1 Lemuel Sawyer Democratic-Republican 2,201 67%
1 William Murfree Democratic-Republican 1,085 33%
2 Willis Alston Democratic-Republican 1,769 58%
2 Daniel Mason Democratic-Republican 1,280 42%
3 William Kennedy Federalist 2,272 52%
3 Thomas Blount Democratic-Republican 2,096 48%
4 John Stanly Federalist 2,702 51.8%
4 William Blackledge Democratic-Republican 2,517 48.2%
5 Thomas Kenan Democratic-Republican unopposed
6 Nathaniel Macon Democratic-Republican 2,403 100%
7 Archibald MacBryde Federalist 2,951 54.6%
7 John Culpepper Federalist 2,455 45.4%
8 Richard Stanford Democratic-Republican 3,078 65.3%
8 Duncan Cameron Federalist 1,633 34.7%
9 James Cochrane Democratic-Republican 2,724 52.3%
9 Theophilus Lacy Democratic-Republican 2,486 47.7%
10 Joseph Pearson Federalist 2,458 63.8%
10 Robert Locke Democratic-Republican 1,395 36.2%
11 James Holland Democratic-Republican 2,352 48.7%
11 Felix Walker Democratic-Republican 1,506 31.2%
11 John MacClain Federalist 455 9.4%
11 William Tate Federalist 385 8%
12 Meshack Franklin Democratic-Republican 2,671 54.6%
12 Joseph Winston Democratic-Republican 1,983 40.5%

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.

New Nation Votes Data


Mapping Early American Elections is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

Creative Commons License This site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

RRCHNM logo NEH logo