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19th Congress: North Carolina 1825

North Carolina’s elections to the nineteenth Congress featured the brief rise of two regional factions within the Democratic-Republican party, the Caucus and Anti-Caucus factions. Some Democratic Republicans dissented from their party’s nomination process of closed meetings, conventions, and caucuses and ran against incumbents as part of the Anti-Caucus faction. With a few exceptions, in the nineteenth congress, supporters of William Crawford became Caucus candidates, while Andrew Jackson’s supporters ran for the Anti-Caucus faction. In the nineteenth congressional election, voters elected five Caucus and eight Anti-Caucus congressmen.

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

In 1826, a special election was held in which Daniel L. Barringer was elected to replace Willie P. Mangum, who had resigned from office.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
1	Lemuel Sawyer	Anti-Caucus	2,483	59.8%	✓
1	Alfred M. Gatlin	Caucus	1,671	40.2%
2	Willis Alston	Anti-Caucus	1,321	42.1%	✓
2	George B. Outlaw	Caucus	978	31.2%
2	James Grant	Anti-Caucus	837	26.7%
3	Richard Hines	Anti-Caucus	2,607	52.7%	✓
3	Thomas H. Hall	Caucus	2,343	47.3%
4	John H. Bryan	Anti-Caucus	2,488	51%	✓
4	Richard D. Spaight	Caucus	2,392	49%
5	Gabriel Holmes	Anti-Caucus	3,347	62.8%	✓
5	Charles Hooks	Caucus	1,982	37.2%
6	Weldon N. Edwards	Caucus	2,804	unopposed	✓
7	Archibald MacNeill	Anti-Caucus	3,086	34%	✓
7	John Culpepper	Caucus	2,905	32%
8	Willie P. Mangum	Caucus	2,301	50.6%	✓
8	Josiah Crudup	Anti-Caucus	2,243	49.4%
9	Romulus M. Saunders	Caucus			✓
10	John Long, Jr.	Caucus	3,246	52.9%	✓
10	John Giles	Anti-Caucus	2,889	47.1%
11	Henry W. Conner	Anti-Caucus	2,693	90.2%	✓
11	T. Hunt		250	8.4%
12	Samuel P. Carson	Anti-Caucus	2,081	35.2%	✓
12	Robert B. Vance	Caucus	1,924	32.6%
12	James Graham	Anti-Caucus	1,903	32.2%
13	Lewis Williams	Caucus	3,102	62%	✓
13	Meshack Franklin	Anti-Caucus	1,901	38%

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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