Mapping Early American Elections

8th Congress: South Carolina 1803

South Carolina elected two Federalists and six Democratic-Republicans to the Eighth Congress.

The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns at the parish or district level.

Following the 1800 Census, South Carolina gained two seats in the House of Representatives.

South Carolina used the district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Thomas Lowndes	Federalist	422	52.3%	✓
1	Robert Marion	Democratic-Republican	385	47.7%
2	William Butler	Democratic-Republican	700	93.3%	✓
2	John Rutledge	Federalist	50	6.7%
3	Benjamin Huger	Federalist	488	50.9%	✓
3	Lemuel Benton	Democratic-Republican	471	49.1%
4	Wade Hampton	Democratic-Republican	381	50.9%	✓
4	John Taylor	Federalist	367	49.1%
5	Richard Winn	Democratic-Republican	296	52.1%	✓
5	John Kershaw	Federalist	272	47.9%
6	Levi Casey	Democratic-Republican	436	43.5%	✓
6	John Calhoun	Democratic-Republican	299	29.8%
6	Robert Creswell	Federalist	141	14.1%
6	James Saxon	Federalist	103	10.3%
7	Thomas Moore	Democratic-Republican	694	60.5%	✓
7	William Hill	Federalist	296	25.8%
7	William Smith	Democratic-Republican	158	13.8%
8	John Earle	Democratic-Republican	407	71.8%	✓
8	Eliab Moore	Federalist	160	28.2%

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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8th Congress: South Carolina 1803

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