16th Congress: South Carolina 1818
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South Carolina elected nine Democratic-Republicans to the Sixteenth Congress.
The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns in many areas.
South Carolina used a district system for electing members to Congress.
| District | Candidate | Party | Vote | Percentage | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Pinckney | Democratic-Republican | 1,164 | 49% | ✓ |
| 1 | Daniel Elliott Huger | Federalist | 810 | 34.1% | |
| 1 | William Crafts, Jr. | Federalist | 402 | 16.9% | |
| 2 | William Lowndes | Democratic-Republican | unopposed | ✓ | |
| 3 | James Ervin | Democratic-Republican | unopposed | ✓ | |
| 4 | James Overstreet | Democratic-Republican | 1,249 | 41% | ✓ |
| 4 | John J. Chappell | Democratic-Republican | 1,073 | 35.2% | |
| 4 | John M. Felder | Federalist | 725 | 23.8% | |
| 5 | Starling Tucker | Democratic-Republican | 2,530 | 50.8% | ✓ |
| 5 | William Brown | Democratic-Republican | 1,421 | 28.5% | |
| 5 | Philip E. Pearson | Democratic-Republican | 1,034 | 20.7% | |
| 6 | Eldred Simkins | Democratic-Republican | 2,309 | 54.2% | ✓ |
| 6 | Joseph Black | Democratic-Republican | 1,105 | 25.9% | |
| 6 | William Butler | Democratic-Republican | 848 | 19.9% | |
| 7 | Elias Earle | Democratic-Republican | 2,166 | 53.7% | ✓ |
| 7 | John H. Harrison | Democratic-Republican | 1,866 | 46.3% | |
| 8 | James MacCreary | Democratic-Republican | unopposed | ✓ | |
| 9 | Joseph Brevard | Democratic-Republican | ✓ |
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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