Mapping Early American Elections

8th Congress: Massachusetts 1802

Massachusetts elected ten Federalists and seven Democratic-Republicans to the Eighth Congress.

Following the 1800 Census, Massachusetts gained three seats in the House of Representatives.

Massachusetts used the district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1804, a special election was held in which Simon Larned was elected to replace Thompson J. Skinner, who had resigned from office on August 10th, 1804.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	William Eustis	Democratic-Republican	1,898	50.8%	✓
1	John Quincy Adams	Federalist	1,839	49.2%
2	Jacob Crowninshield	Democratic-Republican	1,400	51.9%	✓
2	Timothy Pickering	Federalist	1,296	48%
3	Manasseh Cutler	Federalist	1,290	66.7%	✓
3	Thomas Kittredge	Democratic-Republican	636	32.9%
4	Joseph B. Varnum	Democratic-Republican	1,787	70.1%	✓
4	Timothy Bigelow	Federalist	706	27.7%
5	Thomas Dwight	Federalist	1,319	78%	✓
5	Samuel Fowler	Democratic-Republican	161	9.5%
5	Other candidates		113	6.9%
5	Jonathan Smith, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	98	5.8%
6	Samuel Taggart	Federalist	1,935	71.6%	✓
6	Hugh MacClellan	Federalist	766	28.4%
7	Nahum Mitchell	Federalist	1,402	57.8%	✓
7	Henry Warren	Democratic-Republican	1,002	41.3%
8	Lemuel Williams	Federalist	543	55.4%	✓
8	Isaiah Lewis Green	Democratic-Republican	436	44.4%
9	Phanuel Bishop	Democratic-Republican	1,257	57.3%	✓
9	Laban Wheaton	Federalist	931	42.4%
10	Seth Hastings	Federalist	1,391	62.2%	✓
10	Edward Bangs	Democratic-Republican	834	37.3%
11	William Stedman	Federalist	1,520	71.7%	✓
11	John Whiting	Democratic-Republican	592	27.9%
12	Thompson J. Skinner	Democratic-Republican	1,506	58.4%	✓
12	Daniel Dewey	Federalist	1,058	41%
13	Ebenezer Seaver	Democratic-Republican	1,391	63.8%	✓
13	Oliver Everett	Federalist	628	28.8%
13	Other candidates		161	7.2%
14	Richard Cutts	Democratic-Republican	744	55.7%	✓
14	John Lord	Federalist	553	41.4%
15	Peleg Wadsworth	Federalist	829	88.5%	✓
15	Isaac Parsons	Democratic-Republican	80	8.5%
16	Samuel Thacher	Federalist	451	64.8%	✓
16	William King	Federalist	123	17.7%
16	John Farley	Federalist	85	12.2%
16	Other candidates		37	5.3%
17	Phineas Bruce	Federalist	798	57.2%	✓
17	Martin Kinsley	Democratic-Republican	581	41.6%

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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