Smith

(name as recorded in the historical source)

U.S. House candidate

Home state: Connecticut
Party: Independent
On the ballot: 1816–1946

Career timeline

1816Rep 1821Rep 1829Rep 1900Rep 1908Rep 1946Rep

0-6

RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Smith25,193

Opponents928,134

Elections run

Between 1816 and 1946, Smith ran in 6 U.S. House elections, losing all 6. Smith's biggest single-election total was 22,521 votes, in the 1946 U.S. House election in Connecticut's at-large district.

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How many votes has Smith received?

Smith has received 25,193 popular votes across 6 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–6.

Election history

Smith’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1946	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	22,5213.31%	Antoni Sadlak Joseph F Ryter Michael A Russo
1908	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	2,0393.11%	Nehemiah Sperry Reilly Bolster Wells
1900	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	3011.23%	Charles Russell Potter Heibel Dorkin
1829	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	2410.37%	Ralph Ingersoll Noyes Barber (head-to-head) Ebenezer Young Jabez Huntington William Storrs William Ellsworth David Plant (head-to-head) John Niles Andrew Judson Merwin Phelps (head-to-head) John Trott Hinman William A Sherman Daniel Burrows Joseph Eaton Samuel B Sherwood (head-to-head) Timothy Pitkin (head-to-head) Iriah Isham Daniel Stewart
1821	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	670.14%	Gideon Tomlinson Noyes Barber (head-to-head) Henry Edwards John Russ Ebenezer Stoddard Ansel Sterling Daniel Burrows Willey Elisha Tracy Timothy Pitkin (head-to-head) Lyman Law Williams Phelps (head-to-head) Samuel B Sherwood (head-to-head) James Stevens Ogden Moreley Samuel A Foot Denison (head-to-head) Asa Bacon (head-to-head) Zephaniah Swift Seth P Staples E Huntington Ingersoll Henry W Ellsworth Johnson David Plant (head-to-head) Lemuel Whitman
1816	U.S. HouseConnecticut	Lost	240.03%	S Backus Denison (head-to-head) Samuel Sherwood Timothy Pitkin Jonathan Moseley Thomas Williams Uriel Holmes Ebenezer Huntington Lyman Law Lewis Sturges Epaphroditus Champion Asa Bacon (head-to-head) Nathaniel Terry Sylvester Gilbert James Gould John Davenport Benjamin Tallmadge

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Compiled by PolitiFinder. Election results from official certified sources and the MIT Election Lab. See Data & sources and methodology. Data last verified July 28, 2026.