1823 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia

Virginia lost one seat in reapportionment following the 1820 United States census. Nineteen incumbents ran for re-election, leaving three open seats. Virginia elected its members in April 1823 after the term began, but before the new Congress convened.

District	Incumbent			This race
District	Member	Party	First elected	Results	Candidates
Virginia 1	Thomas Newton Jr. Redistricted from the 21st district	Democratic-Republican	1797	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Thomas Newton Jr. (Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican)^[a] George Loyall (Democratic-Republican)
Virginia 2	Arthur Smith Redistricted from the 20th district	Democratic-Republican	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Arthur Smith (Crawford Democratic-Republican)^[a]
Virginia 3	William S. Archer Redistricted from the 17th district	Democratic-Republican	1820 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	Y William S. Archer (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 4	Mark Alexander Redistricted from the 18th district	Democratic-Republican	1819	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Mark Alexander (Crawford Democratic-Republican)^[a]
Virginia 5	John Randolph Redistricted from the 16th district	Democratic-Republican	1799 1813 (Lost) 1815 1817 (Lost) 1819	Incumbent re-elected.	Y John Randolph (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 6	George Tucker Redistricted from the 15th district	Democratic-Republican	1819	Incumbent re-elected.	Y George Tucker (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 7	Jabez Leftwich Redistricted from the 14th district	Democratic-Republican	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Jabez Leftwich (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 56.1% Nathaniel H. Claiborne (Democratic-Republican) 43.9%
Virginia 8	Burwell Bassett Redistricted from the 13th district	Democratic-Republican	1805 1812 (Lost) 1815 1819 (Retired) 1821	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Burwell Bassett (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 58.2% Abel P. Upshur (Federalist) 41.5% Others 0.3%
Virginia 9	Andrew Stevenson Redistricted from the 23rd district	Democratic-Republican	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Andrew Stevenson (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 10	None (District created)			New seat. New member elected. Democratic-Republican gain.	Y William C. Rives (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 11	Philip P. Barbour	Democratic-Republican	1814 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Philip P. Barbour (Crawford Democratic-Republican)^[a]
Virginia 12	Robert S. Garnett	Democratic-Republican	1817	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Robert S. Garnett (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 75.3% Edwin Upshaw (Federalist) 24.7%
Virginia 13	William Lee Ball Redistricted from the 9th district	Democratic-Republican	1817	Incumbent re-elected.	Y William Lee Ball (Crawford Democratic-Republican)^[a] John Clowning Ellyson Currie John W. Hungerford (Democratic-Republican)
Virginia 14	Charles F. Mercer Redistricted from the 8th district	Federalist	1817	Re-elected as Democratic-Republican	Y Charles F. Mercer (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 51.8%^[b] Sydnor Bailey (Democratic-Republican) 48.2%
Virginia 15	None (District created)			New seat. New member elected. Democratic-Republican gain.	Y John S. Barbour (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 43.8% Thomas Marshall (Federalist) 17.8% Thomas Brown (Democratic-Republican) 15.6%
Virginia 16	James Stephenson Redistricted from the 2nd district	Federalist	1803 1805 (Lost) 1809 1811 (Lost) 1822 (Special)	Incumbent re-elected.	Y James Stephenson (Crawford Federalist) 98.9% Others 1.1%
Virginia 17	Jared Williams Redistricted from the 3rd district	Democratic-Republican	1819	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Jared Williams (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 49.2% Alfred H. Powell (Federalist) 40.1% Samuel Kercheval (Democratic-Republican) 10.7%
Virginia 18	None (District created)			New seat. New member elected. Democratic-Republican gain.	Y Joseph Johnson (Jackson Democratic-Republican) 58.2% Phillip Doddridge (Federalist) 38.3% Edwin S. Duncan (Democratic-Republican) 2.5% Jeremiah Browning (Democratic-Republican) 1.0%
Virginia 19	William McCoy Redistricted from the 4th district	Democratic-Republican	1811	Incumbent re-elected.	Y William McCoy (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 100%
Virginia 20	John Floyd Redistricted from the 5th district	Democratic-Republican	1817	Incumbent re-elected.	Y John Floyd (Crawford Democratic-Republican)^[a]
Virginia 21	William Smith Redistricted from the 7th district	Democratic-Republican	1821	Incumbent re-elected.	Y William Smith (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 55.5% James M. H. Beale (Democratic-Republican) 31.6% Isaac Morris (Democratic-Republican) 8.8% Robert Bailey (Democratic-Republican) 3.1% John Haymond (Democratic-Republican) 1.0%
Virginia 22	Alexander Smyth Redistricted from the 6th district	Democratic-Republican	1817	Incumbent re-elected.	Y Alexander Smyth (Crawford Democratic-Republican) 55.6% Benjamin Estill (Federalist) 44.4%

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