1801 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland

Only three of the eight Maryland incumbents were re-elected.

District	Incumbent	Party	First elected	Result	Candidates
Maryland 1	George Dent	Federalist	1792	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Federalist hold.	√ John Campbell (Federalist) 76.6% Frances Digges (Democratic-Republican) 23.4%
Maryland 2	John C. Thomas	Federalist	1798	Incumbent lost re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican gain.	√ Richard Sprigg, Jr. (Democratic-Republican) 65.0% John C. Thomas (Federalist) 35.0%
Maryland 3	William Craik	Federalist	1796 (Special)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Federalist hold	√ Thomas Plater (Federalist) 53.1% Patrick Magruder (Democratic-Republican) 46.9%
Maryland 4	George Baer, Jr.	Federalist	1796	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican gain.	√ Daniel Hiester (Democratic-Republican) 57.4% Eli Williams (Federalist) 42.6%
Maryland 5	Samuel Smith	Democratic-Republican	1792	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Samuel Smith[Note 1] (Democratic-Republican) Charles Ridgely (Federalist)
Maryland 6	Gabriel Christie	Democratic-Republican	1792 1794 (Lost) 1798	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ John Archer (Democratic-Republican) 95.7% John Carlisle (Federalist) 3.9% Philip Thomas (Federalist) 0.4%
Maryland 7	Joseph H. Nicholson	Democratic-Republican	1798 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	√ Joseph H. Nicholson (Democratic-Republican) 99.7% Solomon Jones 0.3%
Maryland 8	John Dennis	Federalist	1796	Incumbent re-elected.	√ John Dennis (Federalist) 89.4% William Polk (Democratic-Republican) 10.6%

References

1. Source does not give numbers of votes or has incomplete data

See also

• List of United States representatives from Maryland
• United States House of Representatives elections, 1800 and 1801