1810 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1810, in 13 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections.

1810 United States gubernatorial elections

← 1809 March 13, 1810 – December 8, 1810 1811 →
13 state governorships
Majority party Minority party   Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Last election 13 governorships 4 governorships Seats before 13 4 Seats won 12 1 Seats after 16 1 Seat change 3 3 Seats up 9 4
Results:      Dem-Republican hold      Dem-Republican gain      Federalist hold

Eight governors were elected by popular vote and five were elected by state legislatures.

Results

State	Election date	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Connecticut	9 April 1810[1][2][lower-alpha 1]	John Treadwell (acting)	Federalist	Re-elected after legislative election, 10,265 (49.50%)[lower-alpha 2]	Asa Spalding (Democratic-Republican), 7,185 (34.65%) Roger Griswold (Federalist), 3,110 (15.00%) Scattering 177 (0.85%) [3][4][5][6][7][8] (Legislative election) (held, 11 May 1810)[9][10] John Treadwell, 121 votes Asa Spalding, 42 votes Roger Griswold, 29 votes [7][11][12]
Delaware	2 October 1810	George Truitt	Federalist	Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory	Joseph Haslet (Democratic-Republican) 3,664 (50.49%) Daniel Rodney (Federalist), 3,593 (49.51%) [13][14][15][6][16][17]
Maryland (election by legislature)	19 November 1810	Edward Lloyd	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 55 votes	John Eager Howard (Federalist), 3 votes Levin Winder (Federalist), 3 votes Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Federalist), 1 vote [18][19][20][21]
Massachusetts	5 April 1810	Christopher Gore	Federalist	Defeated, 44,079 (48.54%)	Elbridge Gerry (Democratic-Republican), 46,541 (51.25%) Scattering 193 (0.21%) [22][23][24][6][25][26][27][28][29]
New Hampshire	13 March 1810	Jeremiah Smith	Federalist	Defeated, 15,166 (48.03%)	John Langdon (Democratic-Republican), 16,325 (51.70%) Scattering 84 (0.27%) [30][31][32][6][33][34][35][36]
New Jersey (election by legislature)	26 October 1810	Joseph Bloomfield	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, unopposed	William Sanford Pennington (Democratic-Republican), withdrew William Rossell (Democratic-Republican), withdrew [37][38][39][40]
New York	24-26 April 1810[lower-alpha 3]	Daniel D. Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 43,094 (54.09%)	Jonas Platt (Federalist)[lower-alpha 4], 36,484 (45.80%) Scattering 86 (0.11%) [41][42][43][6][44][45][46]
North Carolina (election by legislature)	1 December 1810[47]	David Stone	Democratic-Republican	Defeated, Democratic-Republican victory	(Fourth ballot) Benjamin Smith (Democratic-Republican), 97 votes David Stone (Democratic-Republican), 84 votes Blank, 6 votes [48][49][50][51][52][53]
Ohio	9 October 1810	Samuel Huntington	Democratic-Republican	Retired, Democratic-Republican victory	Return J. Meigs Jr. (Democratic-Republican),[lower-alpha 5] 9,924 (56.21%)[lower-alpha 6] Thomas Worthington (Democratic-Republican), 7,731 (43.79%) [56][57][58][6][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]
Rhode Island	18 April 1810[68][69]	James Fenner	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected. Returns lost. [70][71][72][6][73][74]
South Carolina (election by legislature)	8 December 1810[75][76]	John Drayton	Democratic-Republican	Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory	Henry Middleton (Democratic-Republican), 102 votes Joseph Alston (Democratic-Republican), 53 votes [77][78][79]
Vermont	4 September 1810	Jonas Galusha	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 13,810 (57.33%)	Isaac Tichenor (Federalist), 9,918 (41.17%)[lower-alpha 7] Scattering 361 (1.50%) [80][81][82][6][83][84][85][86][87]
Virginia (election by legislature)	7 December 1810[88]	John Tyler Sr.	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, without opposition [89][90][91]

See also

• 1810 United States elections

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Notes

1. Glashan records this election as taking place on 12 April.
2. Since no candidate received a majority of the vote, the state legislature decided the election.
3. Glashan records this election as taking place on 23-25 April.
4. Congressional Quarterly and Kallenbach and Kallenbach describe Platt as an Anti-Clintonian.
5. Meigs had the support of the Federalist Party.^[54][55]
6. A New Nation Votes records that the official certified vote was Meigs 9,596, Worthington 7,702, but no other source agrees with this.
7. Some sources give Tichenor's total as 9,912.

Bibliography

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