Mapping Early American Elections

11th Congress: Massachusetts 1808

Massachusetts elected nine Federalists and eight Democratic-Republicans to the Eleventh Congress.

Massachusetts used the district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1810, a special election was held in which Abijah Bigelow was elected to replace William Stedman, who had resigned from office.

In 1810, a special election was held in which Joseph Allen was elected to replace Jabez Upham, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Josiah Quincy	Federalist	3,004	59.1%	✓
1	William Jarvis	Democratic-Republican	2,074	40.8%
2	Benjamin Pickman, Jr.	Federalist	2,754	52.2%	✓
2	Daniel Kilham	Democratic-Republican	2,524	47.8%
3	Edward St. Loe Livermore	Federalist	2,464	63.6%	✓
3	Thomas Kitteridge	Democratic-Republican	1,395	36%
4	Joseph B. Varnum	Democratic-Republican	2,716	63.4%	✓
4	Abraham Bigelow	Federalist	1,564	36.5%
5	William Ely	Federalist	2,161	66%	✓
5	Samuel Fowler	Democratic-Republican	1,109	33.9%
6	Samuel Taggart	Federalist	2,062	68.4%	✓
6	Solomon Snead	Democratic-Republican	949	31.5%
7	Charles Turner, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,873	50.4%	✓
7	William Baylies	Federalist	1,828	49.2%
8	Gideon Gardner	Democratic-Republican	1,703	58.1%	✓
8	Wendall Davis	Federalist	1,228	41.9%
9	Laban Wheaton	Federalist	1,969	56.8%	✓
9	Josiah Dean	Democratic-Republican	1,481	42.7%
10	Jabez Upham	Federalist	1,927	54.3%	✓
10	Edward Bangs	Democratic-Republican	1,575	44.4%
11	William Stedman	Federalist	2,315	65.3%	✓
11	Moses White	Democratic-Republican	1,145	32.3%
12	Ezekiel Bacon	Democratic-Republican	2,524	54.2%	✓
12	John W. Hulbert	Federalist	2,131	45.7%
13	Ebenezer Seaver	Democratic-Republican	2,300	57.7%	✓
13	Edward H. Robbins	Federalist	1,676	42.1%
14	Richard Cutts	Democratic-Republican	2,133	51%	✓
14	Joseph Leland	Federalist	2,010	48%
15	Ezekiel Whitman	Federalist	2,688	51.3%	✓
15	Daniel Ilsley	Democratic-Republican	2,540	48.5%
16	Orchard Cook	Democratic-Republican	2,057	50.8%	✓
16	Alden Bradford	Federalist	1,942	48%
17	Barzillai Gannett	Democratic-Republican	2,479	50.5%	✓
17	Thomas Rice, Jr.	Federalist	2,391	48.7%

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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