Massachusetts 1789 U.S. House of Representatives, District 8, Ballot 3
- Office:
- U.S. House of Representatives (Federal)
- Title:
- U.S. Congressman
- Jurisdiction:
- Federal
- Label:
- Massachusetts 1789 U.S. House of Representatives, District 8, Ballot 3
- Date:
- 1789
- State:
- Massachusetts
- Type:
- General
- Iteration:
- Third Ballot
- Office/Role:
- U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Congressman
- Candidates:
- Jonathan Grout, Timothy Paine, Artemas Ward, Ebenezer Chaplin, Ebenezer Davis, John Sprague, Simon Baker, Moses Gill, Caleb Hitchcock, Simon Houghton, William Jones, Martin Kinsley, Jonathan Warner, Jonah Whiting, Israel Whiton, Abel Wilder
| Candidates: | Jonathan Grout[1] | Timothy Paine | Artemas Ward | Ebenezer Chaplin | Ebenezer Davis | John Sprague | Simon Baker | Moses Gill | Caleb Hitchcock | Simon Houghton | William Jones | Martin Kinsley | Jonathan Warner | Jonah Whiting | Israel Whiton | Abel Wilder |
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| Affiliation: | Federalist | |||||||||||||||
| Final Result: [2][3] | 1968 | 1312 | 256 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| District of Eight | 1968 | 1312 | 256 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Worcester County | 1968 | 1312 | 256 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Town of Ashburnham | - | 29 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Town of Athal[4] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Barre | 79 | 27 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| District of Berlin | 2 | 13 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Bolton | 7 | 17 | 19 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Boylston | 23 | 36 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Brookfield | 146 | 112 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Charlton | 46 | 55 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Douglas | 1 | 74 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dudley | 56 | 33 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Fitchburg | 20 | 16 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Gardner | 22 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Gerry | 24 | 15 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Town of Grafton[5] | 61 | 14 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hardwick | 89 | 18 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Harvard | 24 | 14 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Holden | 25 | 32 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Hubbardston | 89 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lancaster | 19 | 53 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Leicester | 35 | 15 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Leominster | - | 84 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Lunenberg | 50 | 20 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Town of Mendon | 65 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Milford | - | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of New Braintree | 62 | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Town of Northborough | 3 | 8 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Northbridge | 19 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oakham | 61 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Oxford | 15 | 52 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Paxton | 21 | 18 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Petersham | 105 | 27 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Princetown | 40 | 66 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Royalston | 89 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Rutland | 72 | 32 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Shrewsbury | 70 | 3 | 41 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Southborough | 20 | 25 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Spencer | 79 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sterling[6] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sturbridge[7] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Sutton | 111 | 42 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Templeton | 14 | 38 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Upton | 38 | 17 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Uxbridge | 27 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Ward | 48 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Westborough | 42 | 18 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Western | 17 | 55 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Westminster | 30 | 44 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Winchendon | 42 | 37 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Worcester | 60 | 62 | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Notes:
[1]Elected.
[2]Massachusetts law required a majority to elect for the U.S. House of Representatives. The original election was held on December 18, 1788 and a 2nd Trial on January 29, 1789.
[3]"AS in the two previous election, the two Worcester newspapers, with one exception, printed nothing until their last issues before the election on 2 March. The exception consisted of two items (one of which supported Timothy Paine) in the Massachusetts Spy on 19 February. Then on 26 February the Massachusetts Spy published five articles. Two of them supported Jonathan Grout, one supported Artemas Ward, one backed Timothy Paine, and the fifth did not mention any names. On the same day the American Herald published four items. One supported Grout, one opposed Paine because he had been a mandamus councillor, and the other two items urged that he be elected. The issue of Paine's appointment as a mandamus councillor by the British government in 1774 had been brought up for the first time by the Boston Independent Chronicle, 12 February, and not by the Worcester newspapers. Despite the ambivalence of the newspapers, there was a considerable increse of interest, for the vote almost doubled over the first election on 18 December 1788: from 1,886 to 3,484. Grout was elected Representative by a decisive majority. Artemas Ward, who ran a poor third in each of the three elections, finally defeated Grout in the election to the second Congress in 1791. Paine was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1789." The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections: 1788-1790, Vol. I. p 676.
[4]There were no votes recorded in Athal.
[5]Timothy Paine received 1 vote as Timothy Paid.
[6]There were no votes recorded in Sterling.
[7]There were no votes recorded in Sturbridge.
References:
Original Election Returns. Massachusetts State Archives, Boston.
Jensen, Merrill and Robert A. Becker, ed. The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections: 1788-1790. Vol. I. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. 676-684.
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