Mapping Early American Elections

7th Congress: Virginia 1801

Virginia elected two Federalists and seventeen Democratic-Republicans to the Seventh Congress.

Virginia used the district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John Smith	Democratic-Republican	783	59.3%	✓
1	Philip C. Pendleton	Federalist	538	40.7%
2	David Holmes	Democratic-Republican			✓
3	George Jackson	Democratic-Republican			✓
4	Abraham Trigg	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	John Trigg	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
6	Matthew Clay	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
7	John Randolph	Democratic-Republican			✓
8	Thomas Claiborne	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
9	William B. Giles	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
10	Edwin Gray	Federalist			✓
11	Thomas Newton, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	905	93.6%	✓
11	John Niveson	Federalist	55	5.7%
12	John Stratton	Federalist			✓
13	John Clopton	Democratic-Republican			✓
14	Samuel J. Cabell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
15	John Dawson	Democratic-Republican			✓
16	Anthony New	Democratic-Republican			✓
17	Richard Brent	Democratic-Republican			✓
18	Philip Rootes Thompson	Democratic-Republican			✓
19	John Taliaferro, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	710	63%	✓
19	John Taylor	Federalist	417	37%

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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7th Congress: Virginia 1801

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