1817_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_North_Carolina Knowpia

North Carolina elected its members August 14, 1817.

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Representative	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
North Carolina 1	William H. Murfree	Democratic-Republican	1813	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Lemuel Sawyer (Democratic-Republican) 38.0% Joseph Ferebee (Democratic-Republican) 33.1% Henry Skinner (Federalist) 28.9%
North Carolina 2	Joseph H. Bryan	Democratic-Republican	1815	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Joseph H. Bryan (Democratic-Republican)^[a]
North Carolina 3	James W. Clark	Democratic-Republican	1815	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Thomas H. Hall (Democratic-Republican) 100%
North Carolina 4	William Gaston	Federalist	1813	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Federalist hold.	√ Jesse Slocumb (Federalist) 54.0% Henry J. G. Ruffin (Democratic-Republican) 46.0%
North Carolina 5	Charles Hooks	Democratic-Republican	1816 (Special)	Incumbent lost-re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ James Owen (Democratic-Republican) 55.4% Charles Hooks (Democratic-Republican) 44.6%
North Carolina 6	Weldon N. Edwards	Democratic-Republican	1816 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Weldon N. Edwards (Democratic-Republican) 80.5% Solomon Green (Federalist) 19.5%
North Carolina 7	John Culpepper	Federalist	1806 1808 (Contested election) 1808 (Special) 1813	Incumbent lost-re-election. New member elected. Federalist hold.	√ Alexander McMillan (Federalist) 58.7% John Culpepper (Federalist) 41.3%
North Carolina 8	Samuel Dickens	Democratic-Republican	1816 (Special)	Incumbent lost-re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ James S. Smith (Democratic-Republican) 52.3% Samuel Dickens (Democratic-Republican) 46.9%
North Carolina 9	Bartlett Yancey	Democratic-Republican	1813	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Thomas Settle (Democratic-Republican) 78.4% Romulus M. Saunders (Democratic-Republican) 21.6%
North Carolina 10	William C. Love	Democratic-Republican	1815	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ George Mumford (Democratic-Republican) 53.9% John L. Henderson (Federalist) 46.1%
North Carolina 11	Daniel M. Forney	Democratic-Republican	1815	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Daniel M. Forney (Democratic-Republican)^[a]
North Carolina 12	Israel Pickens	Democratic-Republican	1810	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Felix Walker (Democratic-Republican) 42.8% John Paxton (Democratic-Republican) 38.5% William Porter (Democratic-Republican) 18.7%
North Carolina 13	Lewis Williams	Democratic-Republican	1815	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Lewis Williams^[a]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Numbers of votes missing or incomplete in source(s).

[nr-1] Numbers of votes missing or incomplete in source(s).

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