I.-SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789 Previous to the election of 1804 each elector voted for two candidates for President; the one receiving the highest number of votes, if a majority, was declared elected President; and the next highest Vice-President. + Three States out of thirteen did not vote, viz.: New York, which had not passed an electoral law; and North Carolina and Rhode Island, which had not adopted the Constitution. There having been a tie vote, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the 36th ballot, which was as follows: Jefferson-Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia 10 States; Burr-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island -4 States; Blank-Delaware and South Carolina-2 States. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). No choice having been made by the Electoral College, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the first ballot, which was as follows: Adams-Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont-13 States; JacksonAlabama, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee7 States; Crawford-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-4 States. + No candidate having received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College, the Senate elected R. M. Johnson Vice-President, who received 33 votes; Francis Granger received 16. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). 1840 26 294 Whig Wm. H. Harrison.. 19 1,275,017 234 John Tyler..... 234 Democratic Martin Van Buren. 71,128,702 60 R. M. Johnson.. 48 James G. Birney... Liberty 7,059 15 1,337,243 170 Zachary Taylor.....15 1852 31 296 Democratic Franklin Pierce.. Whig. Winfield Scott.. 1,360, 101 163 27 1,601,474 254 1856 31 296 Democratic James Buchanan... 19 1,838.169 174 Republican. John C. Fremont.. 11 1,341,264 114 American.. Millard Fillmore... 1 874,534 8 1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17 Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11 Cons. Union John Bell.. Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas.. L. W. Tazewell. 11 J. C. Breckinr'ge 174 1,866,352 180 Hannibal Hamlin 180 845,763 72 Joseph Lane... 72 589,581 39 Edward Everett. 39 2 1,375,157 12 H. V. Johnson.. 12 3 18C4*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 6 2,834,079 23 1872 37 366 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 31 3,597,070 286 23 Henry Wilson... 286 18 T. E. Bramlette. 5 3 3 2 W. S. Groesbeck 1 1 Willis B. Machen N. P. Banks..... 1 1 17 14 1876 38 369 Republican. Rutherford B. Hayes 21 4,033,950 185 Wm. A. Wheeler 185 Democratic. Samuel J. Tilden. Prohibition Green Clay Smith.. Scattering. 17 4,284,885 184 T. A. Hendricks 184 81,740 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, † 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 and Rhode Island not having ratified the Constitution in time to take part in the election. STATES. ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1796. John Adams, of Thos. Jefferson, Thos. Pinckney, Aaron Burr, of Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, Geo. Clinton, of Jas. Iredell, of Geo. Washington, John Henry, of 8. Johnson, of C. C. Pinckney. Total. 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. |