Mapping Early American Elections

18th Congress: Virginia 1823

Virginia elected one Federalist and twenty-one Democratic-Republicans to the Eighteenth Congress. Two of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by Andrew Jackson, one of the Democratic-Republicans was part of a faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, and fourteen of the Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by William Crawford.

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

Following the 1820 Census, Virginia lost one seat in the House of Representatives.

Virginia used a district system for electing members to Congress.

In 1824, a special election was held in which John Taliaferro was elected to replace William Lee Ball, who had died.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Thomas Newton	Adams/Clay			✓
2	Arthur Smith	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
3	William S. Archer	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
4	Mark Alexander	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
5	John Randolph	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
6	George Tucker	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
7	Jabez Leftwich	Republican Faction	1,463	56.1%	✓
7	Nathaniel H. Claiborne	Democratic-Republican	1,144	43.9%
8	Burwell Bassett	Republican Faction	1,051	58.2%	✓
8	Abel P. Upshur	Federalist	749	41.5%
9	Andrew Stevenson	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
10	William C. Rives	Jacksonian		unopposed	✓
11	Philip P. Barbour	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
12	Robert S. Garnett	Republican Faction	1,092	75.3%	✓
12	Edwin Upshaw	Federalist	358	24.7%
13	William Lee Ball	Republican Faction			✓
14	Charles F. Mercer	Republican Faction	774	51.8%	✓
14	Sydnor Bailey	Democratic-Republican	720	48.2%
15	John S. Barbour	Republican Faction	578	43.8%	✓
15	Thomas Marshall	Federalist	535	40.6%
15	Thomas Brown	Democratic-Republican	206	15.6%
16	James Stephenson	Federalist			✓
17	Jared Williams	Democratic-Republican	811	49.2%	✓
17	Alfred H. Powell	Federalist	661	40.1%
17	Samuel Kercheval	Democratic-Republican	176	10.7%
18	Joseph Johnson	Jacksonian	1,679	58.2%	✓
18	Phillip Doddridge	Federalist	1,104	38.3%
19	William MacCoy	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
20	John Floyd	Republican Faction		unopposed	✓
21	William Smith	Republican Faction	1,648	55.5%	✓
21	James M. Beale	Democratic-Republican	937	31.6%
21	Isaac Morris	Democratic-Republican	261	8.8%
22	Alexander Smyth	Republican Faction	1,600	55.6%	✓
22	Benjamin Estill	Federalist	1,277	44.4%

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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