15th Congress: South Carolina 1816
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South Carolina elected nine Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress.
The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns in some areas.
South Carolina used a district system for electing members to Congress.
In 1818, a special election was held in which Eldred Simkins was elected to replace John C. Calhoun, who had resigned after being appointed Secretary of War.
| District | Candidate | Party | Vote | Percentage | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Middleton | Democratic-Republican | 1,234 | 56.4% | ✓ |
| 1 | William Crafts, Jr. | Federalist | 954 | 43.6% | |
| 2 | William Lowndes | Democratic-Republican | ✓ | ||
| 3 | James Ervin | Democratic-Republican | 1,804 | 54.8% | ✓ |
| 3 | Benjamin Huger | Federalist | 1,485 | 45.2% | |
| 4 | Joseph Bellinger | Democratic-Republican | 1,369 | 47.2% | ✓ |
| 4 | John J. Chappell | Democratic-Republican | 915 | 31.6% | |
| 4 | John C. Allen | Democratic-Republican | 615 | 21.2% | |
| 5 | Starling Tucker | Democratic-Republican | ✓ | ||
| 6 | John C. Calhoun | Democratic-Republican | 1,977 | 43.2% | ✓ |
| 6 | Edmund Bacon | Federalist | 1,440 | 31.5% | |
| 6 | William Butler | Democratic-Republican | 1,157 | 25.3% | |
| 7 | Elias Earle | Democratic-Republican | 2,053 | 50.7% | ✓ |
| 7 | Andrew Pickens | Democratic-Republican | 1,082 | 26.7% | |
| 7 | John Taylor | Democratic-Republican | 913 | 22.6% | |
| 8 | Wilson Nesbitt | Democratic-Republican | 2,407 | 41.4% | ✓ |
| 8 | James MacKibben | Democratic-Republican | 1,877 | 32.3% | |
| 8 | William Smith | Democratic-Republican | 1,181 | 20.3% | |
| 8 | William Rice | Democratic-Republican | 343 | 5.9% | |
| 9 | Stephen D. Miller | Democratic-Republican | 2,326 | 73.6% | ✓ |
| 9 | William Mayrant | Democratic-Republican | 836 | 26.4% |
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: South Carolina 1816,” Mapping Early American Elections, https://earlyamericanelections.org/maps/meae.congressional.congress15.sc.county.html