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Maryland House of Delegates, 1821

In 1821, Maryland elected eighty representatives to the state’s House of Delegates. At least fifteen of them were Federalists, and at least fifty-seven of them were Democratic-Republicans.

Members of Maryland’s House of Delegates were chosen through popular elections. Each of Maryland’s nineteen counties elected four members using a county-level at-large method. Annapolis and the City of Baltimore each elected two members.

In Maryland’s 1821 state legislative election, the Democratic-Republicans gained an even greater majority in Maryland’s House of Delegates than they had the year before.

Maryland had three legislative bodies: The House of Delegates, which was elected annually in October and had eighty members; a State Senate, comprised of fifteen members, chosen every five years in early September; and a Governor’s Council made up of five members chosen yearly by the Legislature.

District Candidate Party Vote Percentage Elected
Allegany Michael C. Sprigg Democratic-Republican 697 14.9% ✓
Allegany John A. Hoffman Democratic-Republican 690 14.7% ✓
Allegany Thomas Greenwell Democratic-Republican 664 14.2% ✓
Allegany Edward Waitt Democratic-Republican 647 13.8% ✓
Allegany James D. Cresap Federalist 523 11.2%
Allegany John Scott Federalist 515 11%
Allegany William Ridgeley Federalist 482 10.3%
Allegany John Templeman Federalist 471 10%
Annapolis City Thomas H. Carroll Democratic-Republican 149 35.2% ✓
Annapolis City Jeremiah Hughes Democratic-Republican 147 34.8% ✓
Annapolis City Lewis Duvall Federalist 127 30%
Anne Arundel William H. Marriott Democratic-Republican 1,061 17.2% ✓
Anne Arundel Samuel Brown Democratic-Republican 1,032 16.7% ✓
Anne Arundel Charles Stewart Democratic-Republican 1,015 16.5% ✓
Anne Arundel Henry Woodward Democratic-Republican 1,010 16.4% ✓
Anne Arundel Horatio Rideout Federalist 544 8.8%
Anne Arundel Nicholas Worthington Federalist 524 8.5%
Anne Arundel Edward Warfield Federalist 493 8%
Anne Arundel William Stewart Federalist 489 7.9%
Baltimore Edward Orrick 2,136 18.8% ✓
Baltimore Tobias E. Stansbury 2,068 18.2% ✓
Baltimore John B. Snowden 1,781 15.7% ✓
Baltimore Adam Showers 1,681 14.8% ✓
Baltimore John T. H. Worthington 977 8.6%
Baltimore Abraham H. Price 917 8.1%
Baltimore William F. Johnson 916 8.1%
Baltimore Hugh Ely 749 6.6%
Baltimore City John P. Kennedy Democratic-Republican 4,958 36.4% ✓
Baltimore City John Barney Democratic-Republican 4,564 33.5% ✓
Baltimore City John S. Tyson Democratic-Republican 2,651 19.5%
Baltimore City Robert Purviance Democratic-Republican 1,337 9.8%
Calvert J.A.D. Dalrymple Democratic-Republican 431 14.2% ✓
Calvert Bennett Sollers Democratic-Republican 424 13.9% ✓
Calvert Mordecai Smith Democratic-Republican 416 13.7% ✓
Calvert Sutton J. Weems Democratic-Republican 413 13.6% ✓
Calvert George Browne Federalist 348 11.4%
Calvert John J. Brooke Federalist 339 11.1%
Calvert Benjamin Gray Federalist 338 11.1%
Calvert Thomas Reynolds Federalist 334 11%
Caroline Joseph Douglass Democratic-Republican 719 14.3% ✓
Caroline William Whiteley Democratic-Republican 713 14.2% ✓
Caroline William M. Hardcastle Democratic-Republican 703 14% ✓
Caroline Thomas Saulsbury Democratic-Republican 702 14% ✓
Caroline William Potter Federalist 586 11.7%
Caroline James Houston Federalist 565 11.3%
Caroline Samuel Culbreth Federalist 534 10.6%
Caroline Thomas Ford Federalist 494 9.8%
Cecil Robert H. Archer Democratic-Republican 1,098 13.4% ✓
Cecil Thomas Williams Democratic-Republican 1,094 13.4% ✓
Cecil John S. Maffitt Democratic-Republican 1,091 13.4% ✓
Cecil William Craig, Jr. Democratic-Republican 1,088 13.3% ✓
Cecil Thomas S. Thomas Federalist 953 11.7%
Cecil Lambert Beard Federalist 952 11.7%
Cecil James Janney Federalist 951 11.6%
Cecil Abraham D. Mitchell Federalist 942 11.5%
Dorchester Daniel Sullivan Federalist 1,055 12.7% ✓
Dorchester Edward Griffith Federalist 1,045 12.6% ✓
Dorchester Solomon Frazier Democratic-Republican 1,042 12.5% ✓
Dorchester Matthias Travers Federalist 1,039 12.5% ✓
Dorchester John Willis Democratic-Republican 1,036 12.5%
Dorchester Michael Lucas Federalist 1,034 12.4%
Dorchester Bartholomew Byus Democratic-Republican 1,031 12.4%
Dorchester John M.R. Pitt Democratic-Republican 1,026 12.3%
Frederick Henry Kemp Democratic-Republican 2,664 23.9% ✓
Frederick Beane S. Pigman Democratic-Republican 2,623 23.5% ✓
Frederick Henry Culler Democratic-Republican 2,426 21.8% ✓
Frederick Upton Bruce Democratic-Republican 2,052 18.4% ✓
Frederick Robinson Eastburn 1,389 12.5%
Harford William H. Allen Democratic-Republican 1,072 15.1% ✓
Harford John Forwood Democratic-Republican 1,011 14.2% ✓
Harford Alexander Norris Democratic-Republican 969 13.7% ✓
Harford William Whiteford Democratic-Republican 896 12.6% ✓
Harford Israel D. Maulsby Federalist 843 11.9%
Harford Abel Anderson Federalist 658 9.3%
Harford Other candidates 611 8.6%
Harford James MacComas Federalist 594 8.4%
Harford Joshua S. Bond Federalist 442 6.2%
Kent Isaac Connell Democratic-Republican 597 13.1% ✓
Kent Jonathan Harris Democratic-Republican 589 12.9% ✓
Kent Wright Hall Democratic-Republican 582 12.8% ✓
Kent James Brook Democratic-Republican 566 12.4% ✓
Kent John B. Eccleston Federalist 562 12.4%
Kent James F. Browne Federalist 557 12.2%
Kent William Knight Federalist 554 12.2%
Kent Thomas Miller Federalist 540 11.9%
Montgomery Benjamin S. Forrest Federalist 804 13.8% ✓
Montgomery William Darne Federalist 798 13.7% ✓
Montgomery Benjamin Duvall Federalist 796 13.6% ✓
Montgomery John H. Riggs Federalist 762 13.1% ✓
Montgomery Edward Burgess Democratic-Republican 701 12%
Montgomery Solomon Davis Democratic-Republican 678 11.6%
Montgomery John A. T. Kilgour Democratic-Republican 657 11.3%
Montgomery John W. Anderson Democratic-Republican 642 11%
Prince George’s Philemon Chew, Jr. Democratic-Republican 798 13.9% ✓
Prince George’s Benedict J. Semmes Democratic-Republican 787 13.7% ✓
Prince George’s Julius Forrest Democratic-Republican 772 13.5% ✓
Prince George’s Henry Culver Democratic-Republican 762 13.3% ✓
Prince George’s William Marshall Federalist 665 11.6%
Prince George’s William D. Digges Federalist 664 11.6%
Prince George’s George Morton Federalist 648 11.3%
Prince George’s William A. Hall Federalist 642 11.2%
Saint Mary’s Clement Dorsey Federalist 636 16.3% ✓
Saint Mary’s John L. Millard Federalist 592 15.2% ✓
Saint Mary’s William H. Llewellin Federalist 556 14.3% ✓
Saint Mary’s Samuel Maddox Federalist 490 12.6% ✓
Saint Mary’s John R. Plater, Jr. Federalist 459 11.8%
Saint Mary’s George Plater Federalist 375 9.6%
Saint Mary’s George Thomas Democratic-Republican 287 7.4%
Saint Mary’s Other candidates 277 7.1%
Saint Mary’s John Jordan Democratic-Republican 227 5.8%
Somerset Littleton P. Dennis Federalist 1,088 16.6% ✓
Somerset Levin R. King Federalist 999 15.2% ✓
Somerset Daniel Ballard Federalist 992 15.1% ✓
Somerset John H.D. Waters Federalist 957 14.6% ✓
Somerset Littleton D. Teackle Democratic-Republican 748 11.4%
Somerset Joshua Bratton Democratic-Republican 639 9.7%
Somerset John Rider Democratic-Republican 600 9.1%
Somerset Richard Bennett Democratic-Republican 536 8.2%
Talbot Theodore R. Lockerman Democratic-Republican 833 22.1% ✓
Talbot George W. Nabb Democratic-Republican 824 21.8% ✓
Talbot Nicholas Martin Democratic-Republican 776 20.6% ✓
Talbot Thomas Kemp Democratic-Republican 766 20.3% ✓
Talbot Stephen Darden Federalist 574 15.2%
Washington John Bowles Democratic-Republican 1,647 14.9% ✓
Washington Joseph Gabby Democratic-Republican 1,646 14.9% ✓
Washington Andrew Kershner Democratic-Republican 1,568 14.2% ✓
Washington Thomas Kennedy Democratic-Republican 1,564 14.1% ✓
Washington Caspar W. Weaver Federalist 1,405 12.7%
Washington Ezra Slifer Federalist 1,117 10.1%
Washington Thomas B. Hall Federalist 1,012 9.2%
Washington Joseph Merrick Federalist 610 5.5%
Worcester Ara Spence Democratic-Republican 1,226 14% ✓
Worcester John S. Spence Democratic-Republican 1,202 13.7% ✓
Worcester Littleton R. Purnell Democratic-Republican 1,196 13.7% ✓
Worcester William Riley Democratic-Republican 1,190 13.6% ✓
Worcester Charles Parker Federalist 1,003 11.5%
Worcester J.W. Tingle Federalist 1,000 11.4%
Worcester Thomas Hooper Federalist 979 11.2%
Worcester John Stevenson Federalist 960 11%

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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