Massachusetts elected three Federalists and four Democratic-Republicans to the Nineteenth Congress. Three of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. In addition, five dissenting Federalists supported Adams and Clay, while one dissenting Federalist supported Andrew Jackson. As the Federalist Party declined in Massachusetts, many Federalists distanced themselves from the main party. Instead, their political affiliation more closely aligned with their choice of candidate for the 1824 presidential election.
Massachusetts used a district system for electing members to Congress.
District | Candidate | Party | Vote | Percentage | Elected |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Daniel Webster | Federalist | 3,669 | 99.9% | ✓ |
2 | Benjamin W. Crowninshield | Adams/Clay | 1,379 | 58.1% | ✓ |
2 | Frederick Howes | Federalist | 760 | 32% | |
2 | Other candidates | 236 | 9.9% | ||
3 | John Varnum | Federalist | 1,736 | 50.2% | ✓ |
3 | John Merrill | Democratic-Republican | 1,659 | 48% | |
4 | Edward Everett | Democratic-Republican | 1,905 | 56.7% | ✓ |
4 | John Keyes | Democratic-Republican | 1,357 | 40.4% | |
5 | John Davis | Federalist | 1,282 | 51.3% | ✓ |
5 | Jonas Sibley | Democratic-Republican | 1,207 | 48.3% | |
6 | John Locke | Adams/Clay | 1,524 | 60.6% | ✓ |
6 | Joseph G. Kendall | Federalist | 423 | 16.8% | |
6 | Eleazer James | Federalist | 365 | 14.5% | |
6 | Samuel Dana | Democratic-Republican | 186 | 7.4% | |
7 | Samuel C. Allen | Adams/Clay | 1,727 | 55.7% | ✓ |
7 | George Grennall, Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 1,348 | 43.5% | |
8 | Samuel Lathrop | Adams/Clay | 1,920 | 58.4% | ✓ |
8 | James Fowler | Democratic-Republican | 1,216 | 37% | |
9 | Henry W. Dwight | Adams/Clay | 1,921 | 57.1% | ✓ |
9 | Nathan Willis | Democratic-Republican | 1,385 | 41.1% | |
10 | John Bailey | Adams/Clay | 1,669 | 57.3% | ✓ |
10 | Sherman Leland | Democratic-Republican | 991 | 34% | |
10 | Other candidates | 254 | 8.7% | ||
11 | Aaron Hobart | Adams/Clay | 1,606 | 73.2% | ✓ |
11 | Ebenezer Gay | Federalist | 296 | 13.5% | |
11 | William Baylies | Federalist | 260 | 11.9% | |
12 | Francis Bayliss | Jacksonian | 1,778 | 54.8% | ✓ |
12 | James L. Hodges | Democratic-Republican | 1,363 | 42% | |
13 | John Reed | Adams/Clay | 1,049 | 58.1% | ✓ |
13 | Barker Burnall | Democratic-Republican | 460 | 25.5% | |
13 | Walter Folger | Democratic-Republican | 297 | 16.4% |
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.
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.
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