1810 United States gubernatorial elections

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1810 United States gubernatorial elections
← 1809 March 13, 1810 – December 8, 1810 1811 →
13 state governorships
  Majority party Minority party
 
Party
Democratic-Republican
Federalist
Last election 13 governorships 4 governorships
Seats before 13 4
Seats won 12 1
Seats after 16 1
Seat change Increase3 Decrease3
Seats up 9 4

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1810, in 13 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections.

Eight governors were elected by popular vote and five were elected by state legislatures.

Results

State Election date Incumbent Party Status Opposing candidates
Connecticut 9 April 1810[1][2][a] John Treadwell (acting) Federalist Re-elected after legislative election, 10,265 (49.50%)[b] Asa Spalding (Democratic-Republican), 7,185 (34.65%)
Roger Griswold (Federalist), 3,110 (15.00%)
Scattering 177 (0.85%)
[3][4][5][6][7][8]
(Legislative election)
(held, 11 May 1810)[9][10]
John Treadwell, 121 votes
Asa Spalding, 42 votes
Roger Griswold, 29 votes
[7][11][12]
Delaware 2 October 1810 George Truitt Federalist Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory Joseph Haslet (Democratic-Republican) 3,664 (50.49%)
Daniel Rodney (Federalist), 3,593 (49.51%)
[13][14][15][6][16][17]
Maryland
(election by legislature) 		19 November 1810 Edward Lloyd Democratic-Republican Re-elected, 55 votes John Eager Howard (Federalist), 3 votes
Levin Winder (Federalist), 3 votes
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Federalist), 1 vote
[18][19][20][21]
Massachusetts 5 April 1810 Christopher Gore Federalist Defeated, 44,079 (48.54%) Elbridge Gerry (Democratic-Republican), 46,541 (51.25%)
Scattering 193 (0.21%)
[22][23][24][6][25][26][27][28][29]
New Hampshire 13 March 1810 Jeremiah Smith Federalist Defeated, 15,166 (48.03%) John Langdon (Democratic-Republican), 16,325 (51.70%)
Scattering 84 (0.27%)
[30][31][32][6][33][34][35][36]
New Jersey
(election by legislature) 		26 October 1810 Joseph Bloomfield Democratic-Republican Re-elected, unopposed William Sanford Pennington (Democratic-Republican), withdrew
William Rossell (Democratic-Republican), withdrew
[37][38][39][40]
New York 24-26 April 1810[c] Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican Re-elected, 43,094 (54.09%) Jonas Platt (Federalist)[d], 36,484 (45.80%)
Scattering 86 (0.11%)
[41][42][43][6][44][45][46]
North Carolina
(election by legislature) 		1 December 1810[47] David Stone Democratic-Republican Defeated, Democratic-Republican victory (Fourth ballot)
Benjamin Smith (Democratic-Republican), 97 votes
David Stone (Democratic-Republican), 84 votes
Blank, 6 votes
[48][49][50][51][52][53]
Ohio 9 October 1810 Samuel Huntington Democratic-Republican Retired, Democratic-Republican victory Return J. Meigs Jr. (Democratic-Republican),[e] 9,924 (56.21%)[f]
Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican), 7,731 (43.79%)
[56][57][58][6][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]
Rhode Island 18 April 1810[68][69] James Fenner Democratic-Republican Re-elected. Returns lost.
[70][71][72][6][73][74]
South Carolina
(election by legislature) 		8 December 1810[75][76] John Drayton Democratic-Republican Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory Henry Middleton (Democratic-Republican), 102 votes
Joseph Alston (Democratic-Republican), 53 votes
[77][78][79]
Vermont 4 September 1810 Jonas Galusha Democratic-Republican Re-elected, 13,810 (57.33%) Isaac Tichenor (Federalist), 9,918 (41.17%)[g]
Scattering 361 (1.50%)
[80][81][82][6][83][84][85][86][87]
Virginia
(election by legislature) 		7 December 1810[88] John Tyler Sr. Democratic-Republican Re-elected, without opposition
[89][90][91]

See also

References

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Notes

  1. ^ Glashan records this election as taking place on 12 April.
  2. ^ Since no candidate received a majority of the vote, the state legislature decided the election.
  3. ^ Glashan records this election as taking place on 23-25 April.
  4. ^ Congressional Quarterly and Kallenbach and Kallenbach describe Platt as an Anti-Clintonian.
  5. ^ Meigs had the support of the Federalist Party.[54][55]
  6. ^ A New Nation Votes records that the official certified vote was Meigs 9,596, Worthington 7,702, but no other source agrees with this.
  7. ^ Some sources give Tichenor's total as 9,912.

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