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Maryland House of Delegates, 1818

In 1818, Maryland elected eighty representatives to the state’s House of Delegates. At least twenty-seven of them were Federalists, and at least forty-five of them were Democratic-Republicans.

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.

While the Federalists had been in control of Maryland’s state legislature for several years, the Democratic-Republicans regained a majority in the Maryland House of Delegates with the 1818 election. Maryland’s election for the Sixteenth U.S. Congress was also held the same year, and also resulted in a Democratic-Republican majority.

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
Allegany Simkins Democratic-Republican 3,096 94.8%
Allegany Samuel Thomas Federalist 613 18.8% ✓
Allegany Joseph Tomlinson Federalist 552 16.9% ✓
Allegany William Shaw Federalist 529 16.2% ✓
Allegany James Tidball Federalist 511 15.7% ✓
Allegany Benjamin Tomlinson Democratic-Republican 418 12.8%
Allegany William Price Democratic-Republican 380 11.7%
Annapolis City Dennis Claude Democratic-Republican 143 28.7% ✓
Annapolis City John Stephen Democratic-Republican 136 27.3% ✓
Annapolis City Robert Welch Federalist 113 22.6%
Annapolis City Addison Ridout Federalist 107 21.4%
Anne Arundel William H. Marriott Democratic-Republican 919 28.3% ✓
Anne Arundel Rezin Estep Democratic-Republican 795 24.5% ✓
Anne Arundel Thomas H. Dorsey Democratic-Republican 771 23.8% ✓
Anne Arundel Charles Stewart Democratic-Republican 761 23.4% ✓
Baltimore Adam Showers Democratic-Republican 1,758 24.6% ✓
Baltimore John B. Snowden Democratic-Republican 1,734 24.3% ✓
Baltimore Edward Orrick Democratic-Republican 1,671 23.4% ✓
Baltimore Ebenezer S. Thomas Democratic-Republican 1,226 17.2% ✓
Baltimore Cornelius Howard Federalist 400 5.6%
Baltimore City Thomas Kell Democratic-Republican 3,739 31.7% ✓
Baltimore City Henry M. Breckenridge Democratic-Republican 2,986 25.3% ✓
Baltimore City Ebenezer L. Findley Federalist 1,845 15.6%
Baltimore City John Spear Smith Democratic-Republican 1,335 11.3%
Baltimore City John S. Tyson Democratic-Republican 1,138 9.6%
Baltimore City Louis Eichelberger Democratic-Republican 753 6.4%
Calvert John Beckett Democratic-Republican 359 13.2% ✓
Calvert Daniel Kent Democratic-Republican 356 13.1% ✓
Calvert John Dare Federalist 345 12.7% ✓
Calvert James A. Dalyrmple Democratic-Republican 340 12.5% ✓
Calvert Joseph W. Reynolds Federalist 338 12.4%
Calvert Mordecai Smith Democratic-Republican 334 12.3%
Calvert John J. Brooke Federalist 327 12%
Calvert Samuel Turner Federalist 318 11.7%
Caroline Frederick Holbrook Democratic-Republican 654 13.6% ✓
Caroline Peter Willis Democratic-Republican 622 12.9% ✓
Caroline Thomas Saulsbury Democratic-Republican 622 12.9% ✓
Caroline Nathan Whitby Democratic-Republican 607 12.6% ✓
Caroline William Potter Federalist 601 12.5%
Caroline Richard Keene Federalist 577 12%
Caroline James Houston Federalist 568 11.8%
Caroline Richard Hughlett Federalist 557 11.6%
Cecil John Maffit Democratic-Republican 991 14.3% ✓
Cecil David Patton Democratic-Republican 987 14.3% ✓
Cecil John Wroth Democratic-Republican 973 14.1% ✓
Cecil David Mackey Democratic-Republican 962 13.9% ✓
Cecil Elisha Kirk Federalist 785 11.3%
Cecil John R. Evans Federalist 776 11.2%
Cecil John Stump Federalist 724 10.5%
Cecil Matthew Pearce Federalist 723 10.4%
Dorchester William W. Eccleston Democratic-Republican 899 12.8% ✓
Dorchester Benjamin Lecompte Federalist 893 12.7% ✓
Dorchester Solomon Frazier Democratic-Republican 892 12.7% ✓
Dorchester Levin Lake Democratic-Republican 878 12.5% ✓
Dorchester Henry Keene Federalist 876 12.5%
Dorchester Thomas Pitt Federalist 876 12.5%
Dorchester Edward Griffith Federalist 869 12.4%
Dorchester John R. Pitt Democratic-Republican 839 11.9%
Frederick Joshua Cockey Democratic-Republican 2,730 12.8% ✓
Frederick Thomas C. Worthington Democratic-Republican 2,715 12.7% ✓
Frederick John H.M. Smith Democratic-Republican 2,694 12.6% ✓
Frederick Thomas Hawkins Democratic-Republican 2,681 12.5% ✓
Frederick Ignatius Davis Federalist 2,654 12.4%
Frederick William Ross Federalist 2,650 12.4%
Frederick Joshua Howard Federalist 2,625 12.3%
Frederick Robert G. MacPherson Federalist 2,619 12.3%
Harford James Steele Democratic-Republican 1,575 25% ✓
Harford Alexander Norris Democratic-Republican 1,535 24.4% ✓
Harford Israel D. Maulsby Democratic-Republican 1,238 19.7% ✓
Harford George Henderson Democratic-Republican 1,052 16.7% ✓
Harford Abraham Jarrett 743 11.8%
Kent Henry Tilghman Federalist 532 13% ✓
Kent William Knight Federalist 528 12.9% ✓
Kent William Pryor Democratic-Republican 521 12.7% ✓
Kent Thomas B. Hynson Federalist 515 12.6% ✓
Kent Isaac Spencer Federalist 514 12.5%
Kent Philip F. Rasin Democratic-Republican 514 12.5%
Kent James Brooke Democratic-Republican 504 12.3%
Kent Joseph Wilkes II Democratic-Republican 470 11.5%
Montgomery George C. Washington Federalist 803 14.7% ✓
Montgomery Ephraim Gaither Federalist 786 14.4% ✓
Montgomery Ezekiah Linthicum Federalist 744 13.6% ✓
Montgomery Benjamin S. Forrest Federalist 736 13.5% ✓
Montgomery Solomon Davis Democratic-Republican 627 11.5%
Montgomery Edward Burgess Democratic-Republican 602 11%
Montgomery William Wilson Democratic-Republican 584 10.7%
Montgomery Zadock Magruder Democratic-Republican 572 10.5%
Prince George’s George Semmes Federalist 705 13.6% ✓
Prince George’s William D. Digges Federalist 699 13.5% ✓
Prince George’s James Somerville Federalist 695 13.4% ✓
Prince George’s Samuel Claggert Federalist 682 13.2% ✓
Prince George’s Richard T. Hall Democratic-Republican 611 11.8%
Prince George’s William H. Lyles Democratic-Republican 607 11.7%
Prince George’s William T. Wooten Democratic-Republican 597 11.5%
Prince George’s Edmund B. Duvall Democratic-Republican 589 11.4%
Queen Anne’s James Roberts Democratic-Republican 977 26.2% ✓
Queen Anne’s Kensey Harrison Democratic-Republican 967 25.9% ✓
Queen Anne’s James Browne Democratic-Republican 904 24.2% ✓
Queen Anne’s William R. Stuart Democratic-Republican 885 23.7% ✓
Somerset Henry K. Long Federalist 1,026 16.2% ✓
Somerset James Murray Federalist 992 15.6% ✓
Somerset Levin R. King Federalist 919 14.5% ✓
Somerset Matthais Dashiell Federalist 887 14% ✓
Somerset Josiah F. Polk Democratic-Republican 627 9.9%
Somerset William S. Handy Democratic-Republican 593 9.4%
Somerset James Polk Democratic-Republican 567 8.9%
Somerset John Wilkins Federalist 451 7.1%
Talbot Nicholas Goldsborough Federalist 700 13.3% ✓
Talbot Thomas Frazier Federalist 678 12.9% ✓
Talbot William Hayward, Jr. Democratic-Republican 674 12.8% ✓
Talbot William H. Tilghman Federalist 669 12.7% ✓
Talbot Jabez Caldwell Federalist 656 12.4%
Talbot Nicholas Martin Democratic-Republican 648 12.3%
Talbot Theodore R. Lockerman Democratic-Republican 631 12%
Talbot Samuel Tenant Democratic-Republican 616 11.7%
Washington Jacob Schnebly Democratic-Republican unopposed ✓
Washington Samuel B. Claggett Democratic-Republican unopposed ✓
Washington Thomas Kennedy Democratic-Republican unopposed ✓
Washington William Yates Democratic-Republican unopposed ✓

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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