Mapping Early American Elections

6th Congress: North Carolina 1798

North Carolina elected seven Federalists and three Democratic-Republicans to the Sixth Congress.

North Carolina used a district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Joseph Dickson	Federalist	2,098	55.1%	✓
1	James Holland	Democratic-Republican	1,705	44.8%
2	Archibald Henderson	Federalist	3,167	84.4%	✓
2	Basil Gaither	Federalist	356	9.5%
2	Matthew Locke	Democratic-Republican	228	6.1%
3	Robert Williams	Democratic-Republican	2,711	69.8%	✓
3	James Martin	Federalist	1,174	30.2%
4	Richard Stanford	Democratic-Republican	2,005	54.5%	✓
4	Samuel Benton	Federalist	1,675	45.5%
5	Nathaniel Macon	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
6	William H. Hill	Federalist	1,372	50.1%	✓
6	James Gillespie	Democratic-Republican	1,091	39.8%
6	Alexander D. Moore	Federalist	278	10.1%
7	William B. Grove	Federalist	2,500	unopposed	✓
8	David Stone	Federalist	1,645	40%	✓
8	Charles Johnson	Federalist	1,270	30.9%
8	Dempsey Burgess	Democratic-Republican	1,195	29.1%
9	Willis Alston	Federalist	1,553	37.4%	✓
9	Thomas Blount	Democratic-Republican	1,207	29.1%
9	William Kennedy	Federalist	1,019	24.6%
9	John Binford	Federalist	370	8.9%
10	Richard D. Spaight	Federalist	1,047	66.5%	✓
10	George E. Badger	Federalist	527	33.5%

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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6th Congress: North Carolina 1798

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