Mapping Early American Elections

18th Congress: Kentucky 1822

Kentucky elected twelve Democratic-Republicans to the Eighteenth Congress. Eight of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, and four of those Democratic-Republicans was part of a faction led by Andrew Jackson.

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

Following the 1820 Census, Kentucky gained 2 seats in the House of Representatives.

Kentucky used a district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	David Trimble	Adams/Clay			✓
2	Thomas Metcalf	Adams/Clay	3,960	73.8%	✓
2	William Worthington		750	14%
2	Walker Reid		658	12.3%
3	Henry Clay	Adams/Clay		unopposed	✓
4	Robert P. Letcher	Adams/Clay	3,067	52.2%	✓
4	John Speed Smith	Democratic-Republican	2,805	47.8%
5	John T. Johnson	Jacksonian			✓
6	David White, Jr.	Adams/Clay	3,576	56.1%	✓
6	John Logan		2,795	43.9%
7	Thomas P. Moore	Jacksonian	2,593	41.5%	✓
7	John Pope	Federalist	1,857	29.7%
7	Samuel Woodson	Democratic-Republican	1,800	28.8%
8	Richard A. Buckner	Adams/Clay			✓
9	Charles A. Wickliffe	Jacksonian			✓
10	Francis Johnson	Adams/Clay		unopposed	✓
11	Philip Thompson	Adams/Clay			✓
12	Robert P. Henry	Jacksonian			✓

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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18th Congress: Kentucky 1822

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