Mapping Early American Elections

Maryland House of Delegates, 1817

In 1817, Maryland elected eighty representatives to the state’s House of Delegates. At least nine of them were Federalists, and at least twenty of them were Democratic-Republicans.

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

Members of Maryland’s House of Delegates were chosen through popular elections. Each of Maryland’s nineteen counties elected four members using a county-level at-large method. Annapolis and the City of Baltimore each elected two members.

Maryland had three legislative bodies: The House of Delegates, which was elected annually in October and had eighty members; a State Senate, comprised of fifteen members, chosen every five years in early September; and a Governor’s Council made up of five members chosen yearly by the Legislature.

District	Candidate	Party	Vote	Percentage	Elected
Annapolis City	Dennis Claude	Democratic-Republican	126	36%	✓
Annapolis City	John Stephen	Democratic-Republican	123	35.1%	✓
Annapolis City	Alexander C. Magruder	Federalist	101	28.9%
Baltimore	Abraham Price	Democratic-Republican	1,031	27.4%	✓
Baltimore	Adam Showers	Democratic-Republican	1,007	26.7%	✓
Baltimore	John B. Snowden	Democratic-Republican	1,005	26.7%	✓
Baltimore	Thomas Johnson	Democratic-Republican	722	19.2%	✓
Baltimore City	Edward G. Woodyear	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
Baltimore City	Thomas Kell	Democratic-Republican		unopposed	✓
Calvert	Benjamin Gray	Federalist	299	13.9%	✓
Calvert	Gustavus Weems	Federalist	299	13.9%	✓
Calvert	Richard Grahame	Federalist	295	13.7%	✓
Calvert	Samuel Turner	Federalist	283	13.2%	✓
Calvert	Sutton J. Weems	Democratic-Republican	253	11.8%
Calvert	Levin Lawrence	Democratic-Republican	245	11.4%
Calvert	Isaac Rawlings	Democratic-Republican	240	11.2%
Calvert	W. L. Weems	Democratic-Republican	234	10.9%
Caroline	Frederick Holbrook	Democratic-Republican	640	13.7%	✓
Caroline	Nathan Whitby	Democratic-Republican	615	13.2%	✓
Caroline	Thomas Saulsbury	Democratic-Republican	608	13.1%	✓
Caroline	William Whiteley	Democratic-Republican	607	13%	✓
Caroline	Richard Hughlett	Federalist	560	12%
Caroline	Edward Pendleton	Federalist	553	11.9%
Caroline	Samuel Talbot	Federalist	547	11.7%
Caroline	Elijah Satterfield	Federalist	527	11.3%
Cecil	Philip Thomas	Federalist	656	28.1%	✓
Cecil	James Beard	Federalist	549	23.5%	✓
Cecil	Levi Tyson	Federalist	542	23.2%	✓
Cecil	Matthew Pearce	Federalist	540	23.1%	✓
Dorchester	Benjamin Lecompte		554	22.6%	✓
Dorchester	Henry Keene		510	20.9%	✓
Dorchester	Edward Griffith		506	20.7%	✓
Dorchester	Thomas Pitt		496	20.3%	✓
Dorchester	Michael Lucas		377	15.4%
Frederick	Thomas Hawkins	Democratic-Republican	2,231	13.1%	✓
Frederick	Benjamin S. Pigman	Democratic-Republican	2,206	13%	✓
Frederick	William Downey	Democratic-Republican	2,204	13%	✓
Frederick	George Buckley	Federalist	2,090	12.3%	✓
Frederick	Henry Stembel	Democratic-Republican	2,087	12.3%
Frederick	Baker Johnson	Federalist	2,077	12.2%
Frederick	Frederick A. Schley	Federalist	2,055	12.1%
Frederick	Jacob Baumgardner	Federalist	2,046	12%
Harford	Samuel Bradford		816	22.9%	✓
Harford	Charles S. Sewall		806	22.6%	✓
Harford	James Steele		707	19.8%	✓
Harford	James G. Davis		645	18.1%	✓
Harford	Alexander Norris		580	16.3%
Kent	William Knight		488	18.8%	✓
Kent	Thomas B. Hynson		487	18.8%	✓
Kent	John B. Eccleston		482	18.6%	✓
Kent	George Neal		475	18.3%	✓
Kent	Thomas Whittington		356	13.7%
Kent	Thomas Wilson		167	6.4%
Somerset	Thomas K. Carroll		424	23%	✓
Somerset	Henry K. Long		396	21.4%	✓
Somerset	James Murray		388	21%	✓
Somerset	Hampden Haynie		362	19.6%	✓
Somerset	Levin R. King		269	14.6%
Talbot	Daniel Martin	Democratic-Republican	645	13.4%	✓
Talbot	Samuel Stevens, Jr.	Democratic-Republican	635	13.1%	✓
Talbot	James Nabb	Democratic-Republican	609	12.6%	✓
Talbot	Samuel Tenant	Democratic-Republican	602	12.5%	✓
Talbot	Jabez Caldwell	Federalist	599	12.4%
Talbot	Robert Banning	Federalist	586	12.1%
Talbot	Arthur Holt	Federalist	585	12.1%
Talbot	John L. Elbert	Federalist	568	11.8%

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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