Mapping Early American Elections

17th Congress: Kentucky 1820

Kentucky elected ten Democratic-Republicans to the Seventeenth Congress.

The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns at the town or county level.

Kentucky used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1821, a special election was held in which John Speed Smith was elected to replace George C. Robertson, who had resigned before Congress convened.

In 1821, a special election was held in which James D. Breckenridge was elected to replace Wingfield Bullock, who had died before Congress convened.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	David Trimble	Democratic-Republican			✓
2	Samuel H. Woodson	Democratic-Republican	2,651	59.4%	✓
2	John Pope	Federalist	1,686	37.8%
3	John T. Johnson	Democratic-Republican			✓
4	Thomas Metcalf	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	Anthony New	Democratic-Republican			✓
6	Francis Johnson	Democratic-Republican			✓
7	George C. Robertson	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
8	Wingfield Bullock	Democratic-Republican			✓
9	Thomas Montgomery	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
10	Benjamin Hardin	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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17th Congress: Kentucky 1820

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