Mapping Early American Elections

13th Congress: Massachusetts 1812

Massachusetts elected sixteen Federalists and four Democratic-Republicans to the Thirteenth Congress.

Following the 1810 Census, Massachusetts gained three more seats in the House of Representatives.

Massachusetts used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1814, a special election was held in which John W. Hulbert was elected to replace Daniel Dewey, who had resigned.

In 1814, a special election was held in which Samuel Dana was elected to replace William M. Richardson, who had resigned.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Artemas Ward	Federalist	1,675	98.7%	✓
2	William Reed	Federalist	2,403	56%	✓
2	Benjamin W. Crowninshield	Democratic-Republican	1,881	43.9%
3	Timothy Pickering	Federalist	2,249	95.6%	✓
4	William M. Richardson	Democratic-Republican	2,234	51.7%	✓
4	Asahel Sterns	Federalist	2,017	46.7%
5	William Ely	Federalist	2,135	67.4%	✓
5	Enos Foot	Democratic-Republican	621	19.6%
5	Joseph Lyman	Federalist	356	11.2%
6	Samuel Taggart	Federalist	2,434	86.9%	✓
6	Solomon Smead	Democratic-Republican	259	9.2%
7	William Bayliss	Federalist	2,951	58.8%	✓
7	Charles Turner, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	2,050	40.8%
8	John Read	Federalist	2,188	67.9%	✓
8	Thomas Hazard, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	853	26.5%
8	Isaiah L. Green	Democratic-Republican	179	5.6%
9	Laban Wheaton	Federalist	2,721	60.1%	✓
9	John Hawes	Democratic-Republican	1,802	39.8%
10	Elijah Brigham	Federalist	2,630	55%	✓
10	Estes Howe	Democratic-Republican	2,118	44.3%
11	Abijah Bigelow	Federalist	3,146	76.6%	✓
11	Edmund Cushing	Democratic-Republican	960	23.4%
12	Daniel Dewey	Federalist	2,450	53.3%	✓
12	Samuel H. Wheeler	Democratic-Republican	2,130	46.4%
13	Nathaniel Ruggles	Federalist	2,540	54.9%	✓
13	Ebenezer Seaver	Democratic-Republican	2,056	44.5%
14	Cyrus King	Federalist	2,185	59.3%	✓
14	Richard Cutts	Democratic-Republican	1,392	37.8%
15	George Bradbury	Federalist	1,879	58%	✓
15	William Wedgery	Democratic-Republican	1,349	41.7%
16	Samuel Davis	Federalist	2,067	60.9%	✓
16	Benjamin Ames	Democratic-Republican	1,292	38.1%
17	Abiel Wood	Democratic-Republican	1,763	85.4%	✓
17	Other candidates		182	8.7%
17	Joshua Head	Federalist	119	5.8%
18	John Wilson	Federalist	1,356	57.3%	✓
18	Francis Carr	Democratic-Republican	996	42.1%
19	James Parker	Democratic-Republican	1,977	54.7%	✓
19	Thomas Rice	Federalist	1,631	45.1%
20	Levi Hubbard	Democratic-Republican	1,568	51.7%	✓
20	Ebenezer Fessendon, Jr.	Federalist	1,429	47.1%

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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