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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.[1]
The results of the balloting were as follows:[2][3][4]
| Gubernatorial Ballot | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2nd | ||||||
| Samuel Dinsmoor | 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.[5][6] 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.[7][8][9] (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic-Republican | Levi Woodbury | 16,985 | 56.72% | ||
| Democratic-Republican | Samuel Dinsmoor | 12,718 | 42.47% | ||
| Scattering | 240 | 0.80% | |||
| Majority | 4,267 | 14.25% | |||
| Turnout | 29,943 | ||||
| Democratic-Republican hold | Swing | ||||
