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Maryland House of Delegates, 1819

In 1819, Maryland elected eighty representatives to the state’s House of Delegates. At least twenty-one of them were Federalists, and at least forty-eight 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.

In Maryland’s 1819 state legislative election, the Democratic-Republicans gained an even greater majority in Maryland’s House of Delegates than they had the year before.

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 Benjamin Tomlinson Democratic-Republican 640 15.7% ✓
Allegany William Price Democratic-Republican 586 14.4% ✓
Allegany Thomas Greenwell Democratic-Republican 569 14% ✓
Allegany Thomas Blair Federalist 555 13.6% ✓
Allegany John Scott Federalist 549 13.5%
Allegany Joseph Tomlinson Federalist 458 11.2%
Allegany George Robinet Federalist 390 9.6%
Allegany Samuel Thomas Federalist 326 8%
Annapolis City Lewis Duvall 108 46.4% ✓
Annapolis City James Boyle 102 43.8% ✓
Annapolis City Other candidates 23 9.9%
Anne Arundel William H. Marriott Democratic-Republican 630 23.9% ✓
Anne Arundel Thomas W. Hall Democratic-Republican 533 20.2% ✓
Anne Arundel Charles Stewart Democratic-Republican 518 19.7% ✓
Anne Arundel Walter W. Wyvill Democratic-Republican 504 19.1% ✓
Anne Arundel Richard G. Watkins Federalist 228 8.7%
Anne Arundel Archibald Dorsey Federalist 218 8.3%
Baltimore Edward Orrick Democratic-Republican 1,292 19.2% ✓
Baltimore Tobias E. Stansbury Democratic-Republican 1,232 18.3% ✓
Baltimore Abraham H. Price Democratic-Republican 1,069 15.9% ✓
Baltimore Adam Showers Democratic-Republican 1,066 15.9% ✓
Baltimore John B. Snowden Democratic-Republican 717 10.7%
Baltimore John T. Worthington Democratic-Republican 636 9.5%
Baltimore Ebenezer S. Thomas Democratic-Republican 454 6.8%
Baltimore City John Montgomery Democratic-Republican 3,246 40.2% ✓
Baltimore City Henry M. Breckinridge Democratic-Republican 1,740 21.5% ✓
Baltimore City Nathaniel Williams Federalist 1,209 15%
Baltimore City Upton Bruce Democratic-Republican 1,118 13.8%
Baltimore City John S. Tyson Democratic-Republican 771 9.5%
Calvert Gustavus Weems Federalist 384 12.9% ✓
Calvert Joseph W. Reynolds Federalist 378 12.7% ✓
Calvert Thomas Blake Federalist 378 12.7% ✓
Calvert Daniel Kent Democratic-Republican 377 12.6%
Calvert John Beckett Democratic-Republican 377 12.6% ✓
Calvert Benjamin Gray Federalist 373 12.5%
Calvert Joseph Wilkinson Democratic-Republican 368 12.3%
Calvert James A. Dalrymple Democratic-Republican 349 11.7%
Caroline Thomas Saulsbury Democratic-Republican 641 13% ✓
Caroline William M. Hardcastle Democratic-Republican 639 12.9% ✓
Caroline Peter Willis Democratic-Republican 635 12.9% ✓
Caroline William Whiteley Democratic-Republican 634 12.8% ✓
Caroline Richard Hughlett Federalist 623 12.6%
Caroline William Potter Federalist 622 12.6%
Caroline James Houston Federalist 601 12.2%
Caroline Willis Charles Federalist 543 11%
Cecil David Patten Democratic-Republican 1,031 12.8% ✓
Cecil John Wroth Democratic-Republican 1,015 12.6% ✓
Cecil John S. Moffitt Democratic-Republican 1,014 12.6% ✓
Cecil David Mackey Democratic-Republican 1,012 12.6% ✓
Cecil Robert C. Lusby Federalist 1,005 12.5%
Cecil George B. Milligan Federalist 999 12.4%
Cecil Elisha Kirk Federalist 994 12.3%
Cecil William H. Coale Federalist 991 12.3%
Dorchester Benjamin Lecompte Federalist 1,074 13.3% ✓
Dorchester Michael Lucas Federalist 1,061 13.2% ✓
Dorchester William Jackson Federalist 1,056 13.1% ✓
Dorchester Edward Griffith Federalist 1,049 13% ✓
Dorchester William W. Eccleston Democratic-Republican 974 12.1%
Dorchester Levin Lake Democratic-Republican 964 12%
Dorchester Solomon Frazier Democratic-Republican 960 11.9%
Dorchester John R. Pitt Democratic-Republican 926 11.5%
Frederick Alexander Warfield Federalist 2,958 12.7% ✓
Frederick William Ross Federalist 2,935 12.6% ✓
Frederick Plummer Ijams Democratic-Republican 2,930 12.5% ✓
Frederick Thomas Hawkins Democratic-Republican 2,929 12.5% ✓
Frederick Robert G. MacPherson Federalist 2,926 12.5%
Frederick John H. Simmons Federalist 2,919 12.5%
Frederick Samuel Barnes Democratic-Republican 2,888 12.4%
Frederick William E. Williams Democratic-Republican 2,862 12.3%
Harford Israel D. Maulsby Democratic-Republican 1,101 19.5% ✓
Harford Alexander Norris Democratic-Republican 1,003 17.8% ✓
Harford Henry Hall Democratic-Republican 841 14.9% ✓
Harford John Forwood Democratic-Republican 762 13.5% ✓
Harford William H. Allen Federalist 625 11.1%
Harford Thomas W. Bond Federalist 518 9.2%
Harford James Steel Federalist 453 8%
Harford Joshua S. Bond Federalist 343 6.1%
Kent James F. Brown Federalist 548 12.6% ✓
Kent Edward Brown Democratic-Republican 546 12.6% ✓
Kent Isaac Spencer Federalist 544 12.6% ✓
Kent James Brooke Democratic-Republican 544 12.6% ✓
Kent John B. Eccleston Federalist 543 12.5%
Kent James Harris Democratic-Republican 540 12.5%
Kent Culbreth Hall Democratic-Republican 537 12.4%
Kent William Knight Federalist 532 12.3%
Montgomery George Peter Democratic-Republican 823 13.3% ✓
Montgomery Ephraim Gaither Federalist 818 13.2% ✓
Montgomery George C. Washington Federalist 811 13.1% ✓
Montgomery Benjamin S. Forrest Federalist 771 12.4% ✓
Montgomery Ezekiah Linthicum Federalist 768 12.4%
Montgomery Solomon Davis Democratic-Republican 746 12%
Montgomery Edward Burgess Democratic-Republican 743 12%
Montgomery John Wooten Democratic-Republican 730 11.8%
Prince George’s Joseph T. Cross Democratic-Republican 775 13.1% ✓
Prince George’s Francis M. Hall Federalist 753 12.8% ✓
Prince George’s Richard T. Hall Democratic-Republican 751 12.7% ✓
Prince George’s Thomas T. Somerville Federalist 741 12.6% ✓
Prince George’s Samuel Sprigg Democratic-Republican 723 12.3%
Prince George’s John C. Herbert Federalist 722 12.2%
Prince George’s Robert Bowie Federalist 721 12.2%
Prince George’s Edward H. Calvert Federalist 710 12%
Queen Anne’s William E. Meconekin Democratic-Republican 821 21.7% ✓
Queen Anne’s Charles R. Nicholson Democratic-Republican 770 20.4% ✓
Queen Anne’s Robert Stevens Democratic-Republican 717 19% ✓
Queen Anne’s Richard Moffett Democratic-Republican 711 18.8% ✓
Queen Anne’s John Hollingsworth Democratic-Republican 670 17.7%
Queen Anne’s William R. Stuart Democratic-Republican 668 24.6% ✓
Queen Anne’s Kensey Harrison Democratic-Republican 582 21.4% ✓
Queen Anne’s John Hollingsworth Democratic-Republican 538 19.8% ✓
Queen Anne’s Charles R. Nicholson Democratic-Republican 464 17.1% ✓
Queen Anne’s George Palmer Democratic-Republican 360 13.2%
Somerset Matthew Dashiell Federalist 550 19.8% ✓
Somerset Josiah F. Polk Federalist 541 19.5% ✓
Somerset Littleton P. Dennis Federalist 516 18.6% ✓
Somerset Levin R. King Federalist 469 16.9% ✓
Somerset James Polk Democratic-Republican 443 16%
Somerset William Handy Democratic-Republican 256 9.2%
Talbot Daniel Martin Democratic-Republican 740 13.1% ✓
Talbot William Hayward, Jr. Democratic-Republican 730 13% ✓
Talbot Samuel Stevens, Jr. Democratic-Republican 727 12.9% ✓
Talbot Nicholas Martin Democratic-Republican 719 12.8% ✓
Talbot Nicholas Goldsborough Federalist 700 12.4%
Talbot John Goldsborough Federalist 683 12.1%
Talbot William H. Tilghman Federalist 673 11.9%
Talbot Thomas Frazier Federalist 665 11.8%
Washington Jacob Schnebly Democratic-Republican 809 17.3% ✓
Washington Thomas Keller Democratic-Republican 797 17.1% ✓
Washington Joseph Gabby Democratic-Republican 795 17% ✓
Washington Thomas Kennedy Democratic-Republican 738 15.8% ✓
Washington Ezra Slifer Democratic-Republican 714 15.3%
Washington George Locher Democratic-Republican 471 10.1%
Washington John Bowles Democratic-Republican 340 7.3%
Worcester Ara Spence Democratic-Republican 1,052 13% ✓
Worcester John S. Spence Democratic-Republican 1,046 12.9% ✓
Worcester William Quinton Democratic-Republican 1,046 12.9% ✓
Worcester William Riley Democratic-Republican 1,024 12.7% ✓
Worcester Ephraim K. Wilson Federalist 1,015 12.6%
Worcester Thomas N. Williams Federalist 1,012 12.5%
Worcester Charles Parker Federalist 959 11.9%
Worcester James Powell Federalist 924 11.4%

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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