Mapping Early American Elections

17th Congress: Virginia 1821

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

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

Virginia used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1822, a special election was held in which James Stephenson was elected to replace Thomas Van Swearingen, who had died.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Edward B. Jackson	Democratic-Republican			✓
2	Thomas Van Swearingen	Federalist	1,437	83.2%	✓
2	Robert Bailey	Democratic-Republican	290	16.8%
3	Jared Williams	Democratic-Republican	1,064	63.3%	✓
3	William Steinbergen	Democratic-Republican	616	36.7%
4	William MacCoy	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
5	John Floyd	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
6	Alexander Smyth	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
7	William Smith	Federalist	1,276	53.2%	✓
7	James Wilson	Democratic-Republican	1,124	46.8%
8	Charles F. Mercer	Federalist	704	55%	✓
8	Sydnor Bailey	Democratic-Republican	573	44.8%
9	William Lee Ball	Democratic-Republican			✓
10	Thomas L. Moore	Democratic-Republican			✓
11	Philip P. Barbour	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
12	Robert Garnett	Democratic-Republican			✓
13	Burwell Bassett	Democratic-Republican	1,181	66.6%	✓
13	John Patterson	Federalist	531	30%
14	Jabez Leftwich	Democratic-Republican			✓
15	George Tucker	Democratic-Republican	1,454	87.5%	✓
15	William R. Roane	Federalist	207	12.5%
16	John Randolph	Democratic-Republican			✓
17	William S. Archer	Democratic-Republican	1,306	unopposed	✓
18	Mark Alexander	Democratic-Republican	643	unopposed	✓
19	James Jones	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
20	Arthur Smith	Democratic-Republican	992	60.3%	✓
20	John C. Gray	Democratic-Republican	652	39.7%
21	Thomas Newton	Democratic-Republican	770	94.7%	✓
21	Other candidates		43	5.3%
22	Hugh Nelson	Democratic-Republican	1,145	unopposed	✓
23	Andrew Stevenson	Democratic-Republican		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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17th Congress: Virginia 1821

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