Election Name: | 1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election |
Country: | New Hampshire |
Type: | Presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1822 New Hampshire gubernatorial election |
Previous Year: | 1822 |
Next Election: | 1824 New Hampshire gubernatorial election |
Next Year: | 1824 |
Election Date: | March 11, 1823 |
Nominee1: | Levi Woodbury |
Party1: | Democratic-Republican Party |
Popular Vote1: | 16,985 |
Percentage1: | 56.72% |
Nominee2: | Samuel Dinsmoor |
Party2: | Democratic-Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 12,718 |
Percentage2: | 42.47% |
Governor | |
Before Election: | Samuel Bell |
Before Party: | Democratic-Republican Party |
After Election: | Levi Woodbury |
After Party: | Democratic-Republican Party |
The 1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on March 11, 1823.
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.
The Democratic-Republican caucus met at Concord on June 21, 1822.
The results of the balloting were as follows:[1] [2] [3]
Gubernatorial Ballot | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | 2nd | ||||||
72 | 92 | ||||||
Arthur Livermore | 29 | 27 | |||||
Jonathan Harvey | 27 | 27 | |||||
David L. Morril | 18 | 7 | |||||
William Pickering | 8 | 0 | |||||
Ezra Bartlett | 5 | 1 | |||||
William Badger | 1 | 0 | |||||
Josiah Butler | 1 | 0 |
Some 20th Century sources record Woodbury as an Independent Republican. Woodbury stood at the invitation of a convention of Portsmouth Republicans.[4] 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.[5] [6] [7] (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)