Mapping Early American Elections

12th Congress: Massachusetts 1810

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

Massachusetts used the district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1811, a special election was held in which William M. Richardson was elected to replace Joseph B. Varnum, who resigned.

In 1812, a special election was held in which Francis Carr was elected to replace Barzillai Gannett, who resigned.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Josiah Quincy	Federalist	2,273	68.9%	✓
1	David Tilden	Democratic-Republican	1,024	31%
2	William Reed	Federalist	1,709	53.5%	✓
2	Daniel Kilham	Democratic-Republican	1,479	46.3%
3	Leonard White	Federalist	1,523	62.5%	✓
3	T. Kitteridge	Democratic-Republican	816	33.5%
4	Joseph B. Varnum	Democratic-Republican	1,842	69.2%	✓
4	Loammi Baldwin	Federalist	819	30.8%
5	William Ely	Federalist	1,713	70.4%	✓
5	Samuel Fowler	Democratic-Republican	705	29%
6	Samuel Taggart	Federalist	1,563	71.7%	✓
6	Solomon Smead	Democratic-Republican	614	28.2%
7	Charles Turner, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,642	53.5%	✓
7	William Baylies	Federalist	1,429	46.5%
8	Isaiah L. Green	Democratic-Republican	797	57.1%	✓
8	Francis Rotch	Federalist	583	41.8%
9	Laban Wheaton	Federalist	1,442	51.7%	✓
9	Nathaniel Morton, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,336	47.9%
10	Elijah Brigham	Federalist	1,853	53.5%	✓
10	John Spurr	Democratic-Republican	1,608	46.4%
11	Abijah Bigelow	Federalist	1,987	70.6%	✓
11	Timothy Whiting	Democratic-Republican	801	28.5%
12	Ezekiel Bacon	Democratic-Republican	1,588	55.4%	✓
12	Thomas Ives	Federalist	1,256	43.9%
13	Ebenezer Seaver	Democratic-Republican	1,297	63.2%	✓
13	Timothy Jackson	Federalist	434	21.2%
13	James Richardson	Federalist	210	10.2%
13	Other candidates		111	5.3%
14	Richard Cutts	Democratic-Republican	1,338	62.3%	✓
14	Cyrus King	Federalist	789	36.7%
15	William Widgery	Democratic-Republican	2,776	52.4%	✓
15	Ezekiel Whitman	Federalist	2,438	46%
16	Peleg Tallman	Democratic-Republican	1,381	61%	✓
16	Alden Bradford	Federalist	880	38.9%
17	Barzillai Gannett	Democratic-Republican	1,733	59.3%	✓
17	Thomas Rice	Federalist	1,187	40.7%

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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