W P Thompson

U.S. House candidate

Home state: Maine
Party: prohibition
On the ballot: 1823–1914

Career timeline

1823Rep 1892Rep 1894Rep 1896Rep 1900Rep 1914Rep

0-6

RecordWin–Loss

Total Popular Votes

Thompson18,996

Opponents153,536

Elections run

Between 1823 and 1914, W P Thompson ran in 6 U.S. House elections, losing all 6. Thompson's biggest single-election total was 13,700 votes, in the 1892 U.S. House election in Maine's District 3.

Browse every U.S. House race in Maine's District 3, every U.S. House race in Maine's District 1, or all 1914 U.S. House races.

How many votes has W P Thompson received?

W P Thompson has received 18,996 popular votes across 6 U.S. elections, with a career record of 0–6.

Election history

W P Thompson’s election history
Year	Office	Result	Votes	Opponent(s)
1914	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	3,6978.78%	John Peters W R Patngll W E Plummer S F Emerson
1900	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	5101.81%	Edwin Burleigh A F Gerald Charles L Nye
1896	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	5511.8%	Seth Milliken (head-to-head) M S Holway B F Lancaster
1894	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	5352.05%	Seth Milliken (head-to-head) M R Leighton G C Sheldon
1892	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	13,70044.2%	Seth Milliken (head-to-head) G W Gillette A D Knight
1823	U.S. HouseMaine	Lost	30.07%	Thomas G Thornton William Burleigh B G McIntire Isaac Lane Edward P Hayman Benjamin Greene Peter M McDonald Joseph Prime George W Wallingford John Bowdoin Charles E Allen Ether Shepley John Spring James Ayer Samuel E Smith Enoch Wood Joshua Goodwin A K Parris D A H Powers Tucker Kimball Joshua Hall John Bodwell Timothy Shaw Israel Lassell Seth S Fairfield David Legrow Joseph Dane Samuel Fox Cyrus 11ll G D Weeks Samuel Burbank John M Parsons Phinehas Ricken P G Hooper Samuel Shapleigh Exekiel Whitman W A Tucker O S Pillsbury Thomas Sands Henry Woodman Lane Isaac Abner Sawyer David Appleton Moses Garey Simon Nowell Sulvester Haley L B Swett Elijah P Pike Alexander Rice Carver Buker Henry Hobbs Silas Whood John Huston

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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.