17th Congress: Maine 1820
Maine elected two Federalists and five Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress.
The map for this election is incomplete due to the lack of returns at the town or county level.
Maine used a district system for electing members to Congress.
In 1822, a special election was held in which Mark Harris was elected to replace Ezekial Whitman, who had resigned from office.
| District | Candidate | Party | Vote | Percentage | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Dane | Federalist | 955 | 52.4% | ✓ |
| 1 | Alexander Rice | Democratic-Republican | 700 | 38.4% | |
| 1 | Isaac Lyman | 109 | 6% | ||
| 2 | Ezekiel Whitman | Federalist | 941 | 74.2% | ✓ |
| 2 | James Irish | Democratic-Republican | 313 | 24.7% | |
| 3 | Mark L. Hill | Democratic-Republican | 918 | 49.2% | ✓ |
| 3 | Joshua Wingate, Jr. | Democratic-Republican | 722 | 38.7% | |
| 3 | Other candidates | 225 | 12.5% | ||
| 4 | William Williamson | Democratic-Republican | 1,823 | 50.2% | ✓ |
| 5 | Ebenezer Herrick | Democratic-Republican | 728 | 38% | ✓ |
| 5 | Joshua Gage | 528 | 27.5% | ||
| 5 | Ebenezer T. Warren | Democratic-Republican | 473 | 24.7% | |
| 5 | Peter Grant | Federalist | 164 | 8.6% | |
| 6 | Joshua Cushman | Democratic-Republican | 956 | 99.8% | ✓ |
| 7 | Enoch Lincoln | Democratic-Republican | 1,178 | 96.4% | ✓ |
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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“17th Congress: Maine 1820,” Mapping Early American Elections, https://earlyamericanelections.org/maps/meae.congressional.congress17.me.county.html
