Mapping Early American Elections

15th Congress: Massachusetts 1817

Massachusetts elected eleven Federalists and nine Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress.

Massachusetts used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1818, a special election was held in which Enoch Lincoln was elected to replace Albion K. Parris, who had resigned his office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	James Lloyd	Federalist	869	97.9%	✓
2	Nathaniel Sillsbee	Democratic-Republican	1,437	50.1%	✓
2	Thomas Stevens	Federalist	1,407	49.1%
3	Jeremiah Nelson	Federalist	1,152	57.7%	✓
3	Thomas Kitteridge	Democratic-Republican	677	33.9%
3	Other candidates		168	8.5%
4	Timothy Fuller	Democratic-Republican	1,778	54.6%	✓
4	Asahel Stearns	Federalist	1,453	44.6%
5	Elijah Hunt Mills	Federalist	1,219	77.2%	✓
5	Enos Foote	Democratic-Republican	190	12%
5	Lewis Strong	Federalist	98	6.2%
6	Samuel Clesson Allen	Federalist	1,428	68.8%	✓
6	Noah Webster		336	16.2%
6	Elihu Lyman	Democratic-Republican	210	10.1%
7	Henry Shaw	Democratic-Republican	2,015	51.9%	✓
7	Daniel Noble	Federalist	1,799	46.3%
8	Zabdial Sampson	Democratic-Republican	1,580	51.8%	✓
8	Wilkes Wood	Federalist	1,435	47%
9	Walter Folger, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	841	53.6%	✓
9	John Reed	Federalist	609	38.8%
9	William Willis	Federalist	95	6.1%
10	Marcus Morton	Democratic-Republican	1,587	50.6%	✓
10	Samuel Crocker	Federalist	1,451	46.3%
11	Benjamin Adams	Federalist	1,879	64.3%	✓
11	Abraham Lincoln	Democratic-Republican	936	32%
12	Solomon Strong	Federalist	1,962	69.3%	✓
12	Edmund Cushing	Democratic-Republican	864	30.5%
13	Nathaniel Ruggles	Federalist	1,385	50.3%	✓
13	Ebenezer Seaver	Democratic-Republican	1,293	47%
14	John Holmes	Democratic-Republican	1,793	58.9%	✓
14	Cyrus King	Federalist	1,158	38%
15	Ezekial Whitman	Federalist	1,092	51.1%	✓
15	Mark Harris	Democratic-Republican	1,028	48.1%
16	Benjamin Orr	Federalist	967	63%	✓
16	Erastus Foote	Democratic-Republican	560	36.5%
17	John Wilson	Federalist	503	53.6%	✓
17	Martin Kinsley	Democratic-Republican	422	45%
18	Joshua Gage	Democratic-Republican	699	60%	✓
18	Peter Grant	Federalist	459	39.4%
19	Thomas Rice	Federalist	956	50.6%	✓
19	Joshua Cushman	Democratic-Republican	870	46.1%
20	Albion Keith Parris	Democratic-Republican	1,322	55.5%	✓
20	Samuel A. Bradley	Federalist	906	38%
20	Levi Hubbard	Democratic-Republican	134	5.6%

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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