Mapping Early American Elections

12th Congress: Virginia 1811

Virginia elected six Federalist, fifteen Democratic-Republicans, and one Republican who was part of a faction within the party to the Twelfth Congress. The dissenting Republican in this election was a Tertium Quid (or just Quid), a coalition of Federalists and moderate Democratic-Republicans.

The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns in several counties.

Virginia used the district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Thomas Wilson	Federalist			✓
2	John Baker	Federalist	829	56.5%	✓
2	Daniel Morgan	Democratic-Republican	639	43.5%
3	John Smith	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
4	William MacCoy	Democratic-Republican			✓
5	James Breckinridge	Federalist			✓
6	Daniel Sheffey	Federalist		unopposed	✓
7	Joseph Lewis	Federalist	527	80%	✓
7	John Love	Democratic-Republican	131	19.9%
8	John P. Hungerford	Democratic-Republican	769	50.2%	✓
8	John Taliaferro	Democratic-Republican	763	49.8%
9	Aylett Hawes	Democratic-Republican			✓
10	John Dawson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
11	John Roane	Democratic-Republican			✓
12	Burwell Bassett	Democratic-Republican			✓
13	William A. Burwell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
14	Matthew Clay	Democratic-Republican			✓
15	John Randolph	Republican Faction	1,080	67.8%	✓
15	John W. Eppes	Democratic-Republican	514	32.2%
16	James Pleasants	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
17	Thomas Gholson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
18	Peterson Goodwyn	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
19	Edwin Gray	Federalist			✓
20	Thomas Newton	Democratic-Republican			✓
21	Hugh Nelson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
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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12th Congress: Virginia 1811

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