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17th Congress: North Carolina 1821

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North Carolina elected two Federalists and eleven Democratic-Republicans to the Seventeenth Congress.

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

North Carolina used a district system for electing members to Congress.

Congressional election results, 17th Congress: North Carolina 1821
District Candidate Party Vote Percentage Elected
1 Lemuel Sawyer Democratic-Republican 2,875 63.5% ✓
1 James Iredell Federalist 1,116 24.6%
1 Thomas Williams Democratic-Republican 537 11.9%
2 Hutchins G. Burton Democratic-Republican 1,844 unopposed ✓
3 Thomas H. Hall Democratic-Republican 2,432 53% ✓
3 William Clarke Federalist 2,154 47%
4 William Blackledge Democratic-Republican 3,077 61.5% ✓
4 John P. Daves Federalist 1,930 38.5%
5 Charles Hooks Democratic-Republican 2,808 65.3% ✓
5 Daniel Glisson Federalist 1,490 34.7%
6 Weldon N. Edwards Democratic-Republican 3,123 99.4% ✓
7 Archibald MacNeill Federalist 3,353 52.4% ✓
7 John Culpepper Federalist 3,045 47.6%
8 Josiah Crudup Democratic-Republican ✓
9 Romulus M. Saunders Democratic-Republican unopposed ✓
10 John Long Democratic-Republican ✓
11 Henry W. Conner Democratic-Republican 1,879 52.6% ✓
11 William Davidson Federalist 1,676 46.9%
12 Felix Walker Democratic-Republican ✓
13 Lewis Williams Federalist unopposed ✓

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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