Mapping Early American Elections

15th Congress: Virginia 1817

Virginia elected three Federalist and twenty Democratic-Republicans to the Fifteenth Congress.

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

Virginia used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1818, a special election was held in which John Pegram was elected to replace Peterson Goodwyn, who had died.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	James Pindall	Federalist		unopposed	✓
2	Edward Colston	Federalist	687	61.2%	✓
2	Daniel Morgan	Democratic-Republican	347	30.9%
2	Robert Bailey	Democratic-Republican	89	7.9%
3	Henry Saint George Tucker	Democratic-Republican	903	67.8%	✓
3	William Carson	Democratic-Republican	428	32.2%
4	William MacCoy	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	John Floyd	Democratic-Republican			✓
6	Alexander Smyth	Democratic-Republican	1,443	67%	✓
6	Benjamin Estill	Federalist	711	33%
7	Ballard Smith	Democratic-Republican			✓
8	Charles F. Mercer	Federalist	782	52.6%	✓
8	Armistead T. Mason	Democratic-Republican	706	47.4%
9	William Lee Ball	Democratic-Republican	555	44.6%	✓
9	John P. Hungerford	Federalist	509	40.9%
9	Henry Lee Jr.	Federalist	181	14.5%
10	George F. Strother	Democratic-Republican			✓
11	Philip P. Barbour	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
12	Robert Garnett	Democratic-Republican			✓
13	Burwell Bassett	Democratic-Republican			✓
14	William A. Burwell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
15	William I. Lewis	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
16	Archibald Austin	Democratic-Republican	710	61.5%	✓
16	John Randolph	Democratic-Republican	444	38.5%
17	James Pleasants	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
18	Thomas M. Nelson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
19	Peterson Goodwyn	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
20	James Johnson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
21	Thomas Newton	Democratic-Republican	603	93.5%	✓
21	Littleton W. Tazewell	Democratic-Republican	42	6.5%
22	Hugh Nelson	Democratic-Republican	871	72.7%	✓
22	Thomas W. Maury	Democratic-Republican	327	27.3%
23	John Tyler	Democratic-Republican	746	53.7%	✓
23	Andrew Stevenson	Democratic-Republican	643	46.3%

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: Virginia 1817

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