Mapping Early American Elections

3rd Congress: North Carolina 1793

North Carolina’s voters elected seven Democratic-Republicans and three Federalists to the Third Congress.

Many of the electoral returns at the county and district levels are incomplete.

North Carolina used a district system for electing members to Congress. After the 1790 Census, North Carolina gained five seats in the House of Representatives.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Joseph MacDowell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
2	Matthew Locke	Democratic-Republican			✓
3	Joseph Winston	Democratic-Republican			✓
4	Alexander Mebane	Democratic-Republican	852	44.8%	✓
4	Stephen Moore	Federalist	741	39%
4	Ambrose Ramsay	Federalist	308	16.2%
5	Nathaniel Macon	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
6	James Gillespie	Democratic-Republican			✓
7	William B. Grove	Federalist		unopposed	✓
8	William J. Dawson	Federalist	1,583	63.8%	✓
8	Stephen Cabarrus	Democratic-Republican	896	36.1%
9	Thomas Blount	Democratic-Republican			✓
10	Benjamin Williams	Federalist			✓

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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3rd Congress: North Carolina 1793

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