Mapping Early American Elections

15th Congress: Kentucky 1816

Kentucky elected ten Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress.

Kentucky used a district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	David Trimble	Democratic-Republican	3,319	55.3%	✓
1	George Stockton		2,687	44.7%
2	Henry Clay	Democratic-Republican	2,493	57.6%	✓
2	John Pope	Federalist	1,837	42.4%
3	Richard M. Johnson	Democratic-Republican	3,640	56.6%	✓
3	Benjamin Taylor	Federalist	2,787	43.4%
4	Joseph Desha	Democratic-Republican	2,991	56.1%	✓
4	William Garrard		2,341	43.9%
5	Anthony New	Democratic-Republican	3,587	64.4%	✓
5	Benjamin W. Patton		1,980	35.6%
6	David Walker	Democratic-Republican	3,300	54.2%	✓
6	William Thompson		2,295	37.7%
6	Solomon Sharp	Democratic-Republican	499	8.2%
7	George C. Robinson	Democratic-Republican	2,597	62.3%	✓
7	Robert Caldwell		1,571	37.7%
8	Richard C. Anderson	Democratic-Republican	2,578	56.8%	✓
8	Edward George		1,569	34.6%
8	Stephen Ormsby		389	8.6%
9	Tunstall Quarles	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
10	Thomas Speed	Democratic-Republican	2,204	42.3%	✓
10	James Crutcher		1,624	31.2%
10	John Lancaster		1,383	26.5%

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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15th Congress: Kentucky 1816

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