1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

The 1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 11, 1823.

1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election
March 11, 1823
 
Nominee Levi Woodbury Samuel Dinsmoor
Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican
Popular vote 16,985 12,718
Percentage 56.72% 42.47%
Governor before election

Samuel Bell
Democratic-Republican

 Elected Governor

Levi Woodbury
Democratic-Republican

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Incumbent Democratic-Republican Governor Samuel Bell did not run for re-election to a fifth term in office.

Levi Woodbury defeated Samuel Dinsmoor with 56.72% of the vote.

Democratic-Republican nomination

Candidates

Results

The Democratic-Republican caucus met at Concord on June 21, 1822.[1]

The results of the balloting were as follows:[2][3][4]

General election

Candidates

Some 20th Century sources record Woodbury as an Independent Republican. Woodbury stood at the invitation of a convention of Portsmouth Republicans.[5][6] Contemporary sources record both candidates as Republicans; Dinsmoor as a supporter of William H. Crawford for the U.S. Presidency, and Woodbury a supporter of John Quincy Adams.[7][8][9] (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)

Results
1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election[10][11][12][13][14][15][lower-alpha 1]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic-Republican Levi Woodbury 16,985 56.72%
Democratic-Republican Samuel Dinsmoor 12,718 42.47%
Scattering 240 0.80%
Majority 4,267 14.25%
Turnout 29,943
Democratic-Republican hold Swing

References
  1. Cole 1970, p. 47.
  2. "New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. "New Hampshire 1822 Governor, Nomination for 1823, Ballot 2". Tufts Digital Collations and Archives. A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825. Tufts University. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  4. "New-Hampshire". The Portland gazette. Portland, Me. July 2, 1822. p. 2. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  5. Cole 1970, p. 49.
  6. "Savannah: Friday Morning, Feb. 14, 1823". Savannah Georgian. Savannah, Ga. February 15, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  7. "Domestic". The Portland gazette. Portland, Me. February 11, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  8. "The election of State Officers". Savannah Georgian. Savannah, Ga. March 22, 1823. p. 1. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  9. "The election for Governor in New Hampshire". The Georgia journal. Milledgeville, Ga. April 8, 1823. p. 3. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  10. Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Inc. 1998. p. 66. ISBN 1-56802-396-0.
  11. Kallenbach, Joseph E.; Kallenbach, Jessamine S., eds. (1977). American State Governors, 1776-1976. Vol. I. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, Inc. p. 381. ISBN 0-379-00665-0.
  12. Journal of the Senate, of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, holden at the Capitol in Concord, commencing on the first Wednesday of June, 1823. Concord: Jacob B. Moore. 1823. p. 10.
  13. Farmer, James. The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833. Concord: Marsh, Capen and Lyon. p. 19.
  14. Carter, Hosea B., ed. (1891). "Gubernatorial Vote of New Hampshire – 1784 to 1890". The New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1680–1891. Concord: Office of the Secretary of State. p. 152.
  15. Coolidge, A. J.; Mansfield, J. B. (1860). History and Description of New England. New Hampshire. Boston: Austin J. Coolidge. p. 708.
  16. "NH Governor, 1823". Our Campaigns. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  17. Glashan, Roy R. (1979). American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978. Westport, CT: Meckler Books. pp. 200–201. ISBN 0-930466-17-9.

Notes
  1. Some sources give slightly different results. The result given is taken from the New Hampshire Senate Journal.[16][17]

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