1823 New Hampshire gubernatorial election

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.

Candidates

 * William Badger, High Sheriff of Strafford County, former President of the New Hampshire Senate
 * Ezra Bartlett, unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Representative in 1800 and 1804
 * Josiah Butler, incumbent U.S. Representative
 * Samuel Dinsmoor, former U.S. Representative
 * Jonathan Harvey, President of the New Hampshire Senate
 * Arthur Livermore, former U.S. Representative
 * David L. Morril, incumbent U.S. Senator
 * William Pickering, incumbent Treasurer of New Hampshire

Results
The Democratic-Republican caucus met at Concord on June 21, 1822.

The results of the balloting were as follows:

Candidates

 * Samuel Dinsmoor, former U.S. Representative
 * Levi Woodbury, Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature

Some 20th Century sources record Woodbury as an Independent Republican. Woodbury stood at the invitation of a convention of Portsmouth Republicans. 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. (However, Woodbury would be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 as a Jacksonian)