1820 Virginia gubernatorial election

none January 2025 December 2025 ly File:Flag of the United States (1820–1822).svg 1820 Virginia gubernatorial election Virginia Presidential no 1819 Virginia gubernatorial election 1819 1821 Virginia gubernatorial election 1821 December 16, 1820 150x150px 1st ballot File:Thomas Mann Randolph (3x4 cropped).jpg Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. 134 File:Portrait miniature of Hugh Nelson.jpeg Hugh Nelson 38 Governor Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. Democratic-RepublicanLampi lists no parties for this election.Lampi 2012 Kallenbach and Kallenbach list Randolph as a Jeffersonian Republican,Kallenbach Kallenbach 1977 613 while Sobel and Raimo do not indicate a party.Sobel Raimo 1978 1632–33 A gubernatorial election was held in Virginia on December 16, 1820.Virginia 1820 48 The incumbent governor of Virginia Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. defeated the U.S. representative from Virginia's 22nd congressional district Hugh Nelson.Lampi 2012 The election was conducted by the Virginia General Assembly in joint session.Sobel Raimo 1978 1632 Voting was scheduled to have begun on December 9, but was postponed until the following Saturday by agreement of the Senate and the House of Delegates.Virginia 1820 28 Randolph was elected with a majority on the first ballot.Lampi 2012 General election + 1820 Virginia gubernatorial special electionLampi 2012 Candidate First ballot Count Percent Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (incumbent) 164 79.23 Hugh Nelson 38 18.36 OthersThe Virginia Patriot and Richmond Daily Mercantile Advertiser shows 6 votes for others.Lampi 2012 n2 5 2.41 Total 207 100.00 Notes Bibliography Kallenbach Joseph E. Kallenbach Jessamine S. American State Governors, 1776–1976 1 1977 Oceana Publications Dobbs Ferry, NY https://archive.org/details/americanstategov0000kall Lampi Philip J. Virginia 1820 Governor https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/k0698832r A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society 2025-10-25 2012 Sobel Robert Raimo John Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States 1789–1978 4 1978 Meckler Books Westport, CT https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire0004unse Virginia Journal of the House of Delegates [...] 1820 none Richmond https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433014925436&seq=1 Gubernatorial Category:Virginia gubernatorial elections Virginia Category:November 1820 Category:Indirect gubernatorial elections in the United States