Mapping Early American Elections

19th Congress: Massachusetts 1824

Massachusetts elected three Federalists and four Democratic-Republicans to the Nineteenth Congress. Three of those Democratic-Republicans were part of a faction led by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. In addition, five dissenting Federalists supported Adams and Clay, while one dissenting Federalist supported Andrew Jackson. As the Federalist Party declined in Massachusetts, many Federalists distanced themselves from the main party. Instead, their political affiliation more closely aligned with their choice of candidate for the 1824 presidential election.

Massachusetts used a district system for electing members to Congress.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Daniel Webster	Federalist	3,669	99.9%	✓
2	Benjamin W. Crowninshield	Adams/Clay	1,379	58.1%	✓
2	Frederick Howes	Federalist	760	32%
2	Other candidates		236	9.9%
3	John Varnum	Federalist	1,736	50.2%	✓
3	John Merrill	Democratic-Republican	1,659	48%
4	Edward Everett	Democratic-Republican	1,905	56.7%	✓
4	John Keyes	Democratic-Republican	1,357	40.4%
5	John Davis	Federalist	1,282	51.3%	✓
5	Jonas Sibley	Democratic-Republican	1,207	48.3%
6	John Locke	Adams/Clay	1,524	60.6%	✓
6	Joseph G. Kendall	Federalist	423	16.8%
6	Eleazer James	Federalist	365	14.5%
6	Samuel Dana	Democratic-Republican	186	7.4%
7	Samuel C. Allen	Adams/Clay	1,727	55.7%	✓
7	George Grennall, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1,348	43.5%
8	Samuel Lathrop	Adams/Clay	1,920	58.4%	✓
8	James Fowler	Democratic-Republican	1,216	37%
9	Henry W. Dwight	Adams/Clay	1,921	57.1%	✓
9	Nathan Willis	Democratic-Republican	1,385	41.1%
10	John Bailey	Adams/Clay	1,669	57.3%	✓
10	Sherman Leland	Democratic-Republican	991	34%
10	Other candidates		254	8.7%
11	Aaron Hobart	Adams/Clay	1,606	73.2%	✓
11	Ebenezer Gay	Federalist	296	13.5%
11	William Baylies	Federalist	260	11.9%
12	Francis Bayliss	Jacksonian	1,778	54.8%	✓
12	James L. Hodges	Democratic-Republican	1,363	42%
13	John Reed	Adams/Clay	1,049	58.1%	✓
13	Barker Burnall	Democratic-Republican	460	25.5%
13	Walter Folger	Democratic-Republican	297	16.4%

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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