1st Congress: South Carolina 1788
South Carolina voters elected three Anti-Federalists and two Federalists to the First Congress.
Much of this election cannot be mapped because there are insufficient returns at the parish level.
South Carolina used a district system to elect members to Congress.
| District | Candidate | Party | Vote | Percentage | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Smith | Federalist | 600 | 51% | ✓ |
| 1 | Alexander Gillon | Anti-Federalist | 386 | 32.8% | |
| 1 | David Ramsay | 191 | 16.2% | ||
| 2 | Aedanus Burke | Anti-Federalist | ✓ | ||
| 3 | Daniel Huger | Federalist | ✓ | ||
| 4 | Thomas Sumter | Anti-Federalist | unopposed | ✓ | |
| 5 | Thomas Tudor Tucker | Anti-Federalist | unopposed | ✓ |
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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“1st Congress: South Carolina 1788,” Mapping Early American Elections, https://earlyamericanelections.org/maps/meae.congressional.congress01.sc.county.html
