1816 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio

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Ohio elected its members October 8, 1816.

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Representative	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Ohio 1	John McLean	Democratic-Republican	1812	Incumbent resigned in April 1816 become Associate Judge of Ohio Supreme Court. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold. Winner also elected, the same day, to finish the current next term.	√ William Henry Harrison (Democratic-Republican) 57.2% Thomas R. Ross (Democratic-Republican) 24.0% William Corry (Federalist) 10.4% William C. Schenck (Federalist) 6.0% Matthias Ross (Democratic-Republican) 1.5%
Ohio 2	John Alexander	Democratic-Republican	1812	Incumbent lost-re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ John W. Campbell (Democratic-Republican) 55.9% Isaiah Morris (Democratic-Republican) 23.0% Thomas Morris (Democratic-Republican) 17.4% John Alexander (Democratic-Republican) 1.8% Thomas Foote (Democratic-Republican) 1.2%
Ohio 3	William Creighton Jr.	Democratic-Republican	1813 (Special)	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Levi Barber (Democratic-Republican) 40.7% Henry Brush (Democratic-Republican) 31.5% Joseph Kerr (Democratic-Republican) 12.8% Samuel Monett (Democratic-Republican) 10.8% John A. Fulton (Democratic-Republican) 4.1%
Ohio 4	James Caldwell	Democratic-Republican	1812	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold. Election was later unsuccessfully contested.^[1]	√ Samuel Herrick (Democratic-Republican) 57.7% John C. Wright (Democratic-Republican) 41.9%
Ohio 5	James Kilbourne	Democratic-Republican	1812	Incumbent retired. New member elected. Federalist gain.	√ Philemon Beecher (Federalist) 19.6% Joseph Vance (Democratic-Republican) 18.6% Joseph Foos (Democratic-Republican) 13.9% Daniel C. Cooper (Federalist) 13.6% William Ludlow (Democratic-Republican) 9.1% Daniel Smith (Democratic-Republican) 8.7% Fielding Lowry (Democratic-Republican) 8.2% Robert F. Slaughter (Democratic-Republican) 4.7% Chester Griswold (Democratic-Republican) 3.6%
Ohio 6	David Clendenin	Democratic-Republican	1814	Incumbent lost-re-election. New member elected. Democratic-Republican hold.	√ Peter Hitchcock (Democratic-Republican) 57.5% Joseph Richardson (Democratic-Republican) 28.0% John G. Young (Democratic-Republican) 8.5% David Clendenin (Democratic-Republican) 5.9%

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↑ Only candidates with at least 1% of the vote listed.

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↑ "Fourteenth Congress March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817". Office of the Historian, United States House of Representatives. Retrieved October 22, 2018.

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