1818 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

Vermont elected its members On September 1, 1818.

District	Incumbent			This race
	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates[lower-alpha 1]
Vermont at-large 6 seats on a general ticket	Charles Rich	Democratic-Republican	1812 1814 (Lost) 1816	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Charles Rich (Democratic-Republican) 12.5% √ Mark Richards (Democratic-Republican) 12.4% √ William Strong (Democratic-Republican) 12.1% √ Samuel C. Crafts (Democratic-Republican) 10.1% √ Ezra Meech (Democratic-Republican) 9.4% √ Orsamus Cook Merrill (Democratic-Republican) 6.4%[lower-alpha 2] William A. Griswold (Democratic-Republican) 6.3% Rollin C. Mallary (Democratic-Republican) 6.3%[lower-alpha 2] John Peck (Democratic-Republican) 6.0% David Edmond (Federalist) 4.3% Horace Everett (Democratic-Republican) 4.3% Phineas White (Democratic-Republican) 4.2% Richard Skinner (Democratic-Republican) 3.3%
	Mark Richards	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent re-elected.
	Samuel C. Crafts	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent re-elected.
	Heman Allen	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent resigned April 20, 1818 to become a U.S. Marshall. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.
	William Hunter	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.
	Orsamus Cook Merrill	Democratic-Republican	1816	Incumbent re-elected. Election later contested successfully by Rollin C. Mallary.[lower-alpha 2]

1818 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont

← 1816 September 1, 1818 (1818-09-01) 1820–1821 →
All 6 Vermont seats to the United States House of Representatives
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Last election 6 0 Seats won 6 0 Seat change

See also

• 1818 and 1819 United States House of Representatives elections
• List of United States representatives from Vermont

Notes

1. Only candidates with at least 1% of the vote listed.
2. Initial returns showed Rollin C. Mallary in 8th place with 6,879 votes and Orsamus Cook Merrill in 6th place with 6,955 votes, but after challenging the results, the House Committee on Elections declared Mallary the winner of the last seat with 6,961 votes, a 6-vote lead over Merrill.^{[citation needed]} Mallary was seated January 13, 1820.^[1]

References

1. "Sixteenth Congress March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved January 23, 2019 – via History.house.gov.^{[permanent dead link]}