Mapping Early American Elections

9th Congress: Virginia 1805

Virginia elected one Federalist, nineteen Democratic-Republicans, and two other Republicans who were part of a faction within the party to the Ninth Congress. The Republican faction in this election was the Tertium Quids (or just Quids), a coalition of Federalists and moderate Democratic-Republicans. The Quids were led by John Randolph of Roanoke, who won election from the Fifteenth District.

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

Virginia used the district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1806, a special election was held in which Democrat William A. Burwell was elected to replace Christopher Clark, who had resigned from office to practice law.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John G. Jackson	Democratic-Republican			✓
2	John Morrow	Democratic-Republican			✓
3	John Smith	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
4	David Holmes	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	Alexander Wilson	Democratic-Republican	786	60.6%	✓
5	Robert Bailey	Republican Faction	510	39.4%
6	Abraham Trigg	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
7	Joseph Lewis, Jr.	Federalist	719	54.3%	✓
7	William Ellzey	Democratic-Republican	606	45.7%
8	Walter Jones	Democratic-Republican			✓
9	Philip R. Thompson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
10	John Dawson	Democratic-Republican			✓
11	James M. Garnett	Democratic-Republican			✓
12	Burwell Bassett	Democratic-Republican			✓
13	Christopher Clark	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
14	Mathew Clay	Democratic-Republican	1,833	88.9%	✓
14	William Lewis	Federalist	230	11.1%
15	John Randolph	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
16	John W. Eppes	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
17	John Claiborne	Democratic-Republican			✓
18	Peterson Goodwyn	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
19	Edwin Gray	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
20	Thomas Newton, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,542	unopposed	✓
21	Thomas M. Randolph	Democratic-Republican	1,175	63.7%	✓
21	Walter Leake	Republican Faction	670	36.3%
22	John Clopton	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓

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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9th Congress: Virginia 1805

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