1820 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland

Maryland elected its members October 2, 1820.

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Maryland 1	Raphael Neale	Federalist	1818	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Raphael Neale (Federalist) 54.0% Nicholas Stonestreet (Federalist) 46.0%
Maryland 2	Joseph Kent	Democratic-Republican	1810 1814 (Lost) 1818	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Joseph Kent (Democratic-Republican) 96.9% John C. Herbert (Federalist) 2.2%
Maryland 3	Henry R. Warfield	Federalist	1818	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Henry R. Warfield (Federalist) 99.3%
Maryland 4	Samuel Ringgold	Democratic-Republican	1810 1814 (Lost) 1816	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ John Nelson (Democratic-Republican) 57.9% Thomas C. Worthington (Federalist) 41.9%
Maryland 5 Plural district with 2 seats	Samuel Smith	Democratic-Republican	1792 1803 (Retired) 1816	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Peter Little (Democratic-Republican) 50.0% √ Samuel Smith (Democratic-Republican) 50.0%
Maryland 5 Plural district with 2 seats	Peter Little	Democratic-Republican	1810 1812 (Lost) 1816	Incumbent re-elected.
Maryland 6	Stevenson Archer	Democratic-Republican	1811 (Special) 1816 (Lost) 1818	Incumbent retired. New member elected by lot after tied vote. Democratic-Republican hold.^[a]	√ Jeremiah Cosden (Democratic-Republican) 49.9% Philip Reed (Democratic-Republican) 49.9%
Maryland 7	Thomas Culbreth	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Robert Wright (Democratic-Republican) 50.5% Thomas Culbreth (Democratic-Republican) 49.5%
Maryland 8	Thomas Bayly	Federalist	1816	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Thomas Bayly (Federalist) 99.5%

Notes[]

^ In Maryland's 6th district, Philip Reed later successfully contested the tie, claiming 7 votes for him that had not been counted,^[1] and was seated March 22, 1822.^[2]

References[]

^ "Maryland 1820 U.S. House of Representatives, District 6". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved February 18, 2019. (see footnotes 1, 2, and 5)
^ "Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved February 4, 2019 – via History.house.gov.

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[3] In Maryland's 6th district, Philip Reed later successfully contested the tie, claiming 7 votes for him that had not been counted,^[1] and was seated March 22, 1822.^[2]

[1] "Maryland 1820 U.S. House of Representatives, District 6". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved February 18, 2019. (see footnotes 1, 2, and 5)

[2] "Seventeenth Congress March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1823". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved February 4, 2019 – via History.house.gov.

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