Mapping Early American Elections

6th Congress: Virginia 1799

Virginia elected eight Federalists and eleven Democratic-Republicans to the Sixth Congress.

Virginia used the district system for electing members to Congress.

In August 1800, a special election was held in which Democratic-Republican Littleton Waller Tazewell was elected to replace Federalist John Marshall, who had resigned from office to replace Federalist Timothy Pickering as the Secretary of State.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Robert Page	Federalist	941	54.3%	✓
1	John Smith	Democratic-Republican	792	45.7%
2	David Holmes	Democratic-Republican			✓
3	George Jackson	Democratic-Republican	1,404	53.9%	✓
3	John Haymond	Federalist	1,199	46%
4	Abraham Trigg	Democratic-Republican	1,873	88.5%	✓
4	William Preston	Federalist	244	11.5%
5	John Trigg	Democratic-Republican			✓
6	Matthew Clay	Democratic-Republican			✓
7	John Randolph	Democratic-Republican	789	40.5%	✓
7	Powhatan Bolling	Federalist	784	40.3%
7	Clement Carrington	Federalist	373	19.2%
8	Samuel Goode	Federalist	1,131	52.5%	✓
8	Thomas Claiborne	Democratic-Republican	1,024	47.5%
9	Joseph Eggleston	Democratic-Republican	1,058	63.2%	✓
9	Alexander MacRae	Federalist	616	36.8%
10	Edwin Gray	Federalist			✓
11	Josiah Parker	Federalist	1,143	56.2%	✓
11	Thomas Newton	Democratic-Republican	890	43.8%
12	Thomas Evans	Federalist	1,172	62.3%	✓
12	John Page	Democratic-Republican	709	37.7%
13	John Marshall	Federalist			✓
14	Samuel J. Cabell	Democratic-Republican	1,497	86%	✓
14	John Nicholas	Federalist	243	14%
15	John Dawson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
16	Anthony New	Democratic-Republican			✓
17	Leven Powell	Federalist	917	63.8%	✓
17	Roger West	Democratic-Republican	520	36.2%
18	John Nicholas	Democratic-Republican			✓
19	Henry Lee	Federalist	617	51.4%	✓
19	Walter Jones	Democratic-Republican	584	48.6%

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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