Mapping Early American Elections

10th Congress: Virginia 1807

Virginia elected one Federalist, eighteen Democratic-Republicans, and three other Republicans who were part of a faction within the party to the Tenth Congress. The Republican faction in this election was the Tertium Quids (or just Quids), a coalition of Federalists and moderate Democratic-Republicans.

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.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	John G. Jackson	Democratic-Republican			✓
2	John Morrow	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
3	John Smith	Democratic-Republican			✓
4	David Holmes	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	Alexander Wilson	Democratic-Republican	1,093	57%	✓
5	Oliver Towles	Democratic-Republican	449	23.4%
5	Robert Bailey	Republican Faction	369	19.3%
6	Abraham Trigg	Democratic-Republican			✓
7	Joseph Lewis, Jr.	Federalist	665	55.2%	✓
7	John Littlejohn	Democratic-Republican	540	44.8%
8	Walter Jones	Democratic-Republican			✓
9	John Love	Democratic-Republican	794	60.5%	✓
9	Philip R. Thompson	Democratic-Republican	518	39.5%
10	John Dawson	Democratic-Republican			✓
11	James M. Garnett	Democratic-Republican			✓
12	Burwell Bassett	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
13	William A. Burwell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
14	Matthew Clay	Democratic-Republican	2,017	99.5%	✓
15	John Randolph	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
16	John W. Eppes	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
17	John Claiborne	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
18	Peterson Goodwyn	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
19	Edwin Gray	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
20	Thomas Newton Jr.	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
21	Wilson C. Nicholas	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
22	John Clopton	Democratic-Republican			✓

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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10th Congress: Virginia 1807

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