Mapping Early American Elections

15th Congress: Maryland 1816

Maryland elected five Federalists and four Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress. In the 8th district, moderate Federalist Thomas Bayly also received considerable backing from the Democratic-Republicans.

Maryland used a district system for electing members to Congress. Each district elected one member of Congress except District 5, which elected two members.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Philip Stewart	Federalist	1,092	99.1%	✓
2	John C. Herbert	Federalist	1,602	50.6%	✓
2	Joshua Barney	Democratic-Republican	1,556	49.2%
3	George Peter	Federalist	1,888	46%	✓
3	Charles Kilgour	Federalist	1,249	30.4%
3	Nicholas Snethen	Democratic-Republican	969	23.6%
4	Samuel Ringgold	Democratic-Republican	3,460	53.6%	✓
4	Matthew Van Lear	Federalist	2,985	46.3%
5	Samuel Smith	Democratic-Republican	5,326	42.1%	✓
5	Peter Little	Democratic-Republican	3,974	31.4%	✓
5	Tobias Stansbury	Democratic-Republican	3,337	26.4%
6	Philip Reed	Federalist	2,282	51.5%	✓
6	Stevenson Archer	Democratic-Republican	2,149	48.5%
7	Thomas Culbreth	Democratic-Republican	1,879	50.8%	✓
7	William Potter	Federalist	1,818	49.2%
8	Thomas Bayly	Federalist	2,539	51.7%	✓
8	Ephraim K. Wilson	Federalist	2,289	46.6%

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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15th Congress: Maryland 1816

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