SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued).

1840 26 294 Whig..

234

Wm. H. Harrison.. 19 1,275,017 234 John Tyler... Democratic Martin Van Buren. 7 1,128,702 60 R. M. Johnson.. 48 James G. Birney...

Liberty

1344 26 275 Democratic James K. Polk....

7,059

L. W. Tazewell. 11
James K. Polk.. 1

1,866,352 180 Hannibal Hamlin 180 845,763 72 Joseph Lane.... 72 589,581 39 Edward Everett. 39 12

1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17
Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11
Cons. Union John Bell..
Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas..... 2 1,375,157 12 H. V. Johnson..

3

1864 *36 314 Republican. Abraham Linclon.. 22 2,216,067 212 Andrew Johnson 212 Democratic Geo. B. McClellan.. 3 1,808,725 21 G. H. Pendleton. 21

Vacancies....... 11

81

81

1868 +37 317 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 26 3,015,071 214 Schuyler Colfax. 214 Democratic. Horatio Seymour 8 2,709,613 80 F. P. Blair, Jr... 80 Vacancies....

3

23

1872 37 366 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 31 3,597,070 286
Dem. & Lib. Horace Greeley.... 6 2,834,079
Democratic. Charles O'Conor.
Temp'rance James Black..

Thos. A. Hendricks

B. Gratz Brown.

Charles J. Jenkins.
David Davis..

29,408

5,608

23

Not Counted...

1876 38 369 Republican. Rutherford B. Hayes 21
Democratic. Samuel J. Tilden... 17
Greenback.. Peter Cooper..
Prohibition Green Clay Smith....
Scattering.

1 Willis B. Machen
N. P. Banks.... 1
14

17

.....

4,033,950 185 Wm. A. Wheeler 185/ 4,284,885 184 T. A. Hendricks 184

81,740
9.522
2,636

Eleven States did not vote, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Three States did not vote, viz.: Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia.

Three electoral votes of Georgia cast for Horace Greeley, and the votes of Arkansas, 6, and Louisiana, 8, cast for U. S. Grant, were rejected. If all had been included in the count, the electoral vote would have been 300 for U. S. Grant, and 66 for opposing candidates.

II.-ELECTORAL VOTE, BY STATES, FOR PRESIDENT AND VICEPRESIDENT, 1789-1876.

ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1789.*

No returns of the popular vote for President are preserved with any fulness previous to 1824. During the earlier elections the States, or a majority of them, chose the Presidential Electors by their Legislatures, and not by popular vote. Even as late as 1824, six States thus voted, while one State (South Carolina) continued to choose Presidential Electors by her Legislature until 1868.

* From 1789 to the election of 1804 the Electors voted for President and Vice-President on the same ballot, the one receiving the highest number of votes being President.

and

Rhode Island

+ New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island did not vote, the New York Legislature having failed to agree on the mode of choosing electors, and North Carolina not having ratified the Constitution in time to take part in the election.

The vote for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr being equal, there was no choice for President by the Electoral votes. On the 11th February, 1801, the House of Representatives proceeded to the election of a President. On the first ballot eight States voted for Jefferson, six for Burr, and the votes of two were divided. Balloting continued without a choice until February 17th, 1801, when on the 36th ballot ten States voted for Jefferson, four for Burr, and two in blank. Thomas Jefferson was thus elected President, and Aaron Burr, Vice-President.

By Article XII. of the Amendments to the Constitution, which was declared in force September 25th, 1804, the Electors are required to ballot separately for President and Vice-Presi dent. The election of 1804 was the first under this amendment.