1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election

1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election

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Nominee John Adair William Logan Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Popular vote 20,493 19,947 Percentage 32.83% 31.95%   Nominee Joseph Desha Anthony Butler Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Popular vote 12,419 9,567 Percentage 19.89% 15.33%

County results Congressional district results Adair:      30–40%     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90% Logan:      30–40%     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     90–100% Desha:      30–40%     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90% Butler:      30–40%     40–50%     60–70%     80–90%

Governor before election Gabriel Slaughter (acting) Democratic-Republican Elected Governor John Adair Democratic-Republican

The 1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on August 7, 1820.

Acting Democratic-Republican Governor Gabriel Slaughter did not stand for re-election.

Former U.S. Senator John Adair defeated Anthony Butler, Joseph Desha, and William Logan with 32.83% of the vote.

General election

Candidates

• John Adair, former U.S. Senator
• Anthony Butler, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives ^[1]
• Joseph Desha, former U.S. Representative
• William Logan, former U.S. Senator

Withdrawn

• John Emmerson ^{[2] [3]}

Adair, Butler, Desha and Emmerson represented the pro-relief faction and Logan represented the anti-relief faction. ^{[3] [4]}

Results

1820 Kentucky gubernatorial election ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [a]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic-Republican	John Adair	20,493	32.83%
	Democratic-Republican	William Logan	19,947	31.95%
	Democratic-Republican	Joseph Desha	12,419	19.89%
	Democratic-Republican	Anthony Butler	9,567	15.33%
Majority			546	0.88%
Turnout			62,426
	Democratic-Republican hold		Swing

See also

Old Court – New Court controversy

Notes

1. Some sources give slightly different votes for Butler and Desha. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15] [16]}

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