1804 United States presidential election in Virginia

none January 2025 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States presidential election in Virginia Virginia Flag_of_the_United_States_(1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Virginia 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Virginia 1808 November 5, 1804 NH NJ 200x200px File:Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 (Cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Virginia George Clinton 24 12,914 98.9% 2em 150x150px Unpledged electors(write-in) Federalist Party N/A N/A 0 129 1.0% File:1804 United States presidential election in Virginia results map by county.svg 435px County results Jefferson #006e1a 80–90% #005113 90–100% No data #808080 President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in Virginia on November 5, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.Harman 1922 297 The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton was elected virtually without opposition.Lampi 2012 Final Result The Virginia Federalist Party chose not to contest the election.Broussard 1978 84 Different lists of unpledged electors received write-in votes in a few counties; in some cases, these tickets included a mix of Federalist and Democratic-Republican candidates or were composed of fictitious names.Lampi 2012 n25, n36, n50–55, n59, n61, n63–64, n78–79 Federalist writers complained that the state's general ticket law made the election result a foregone conclusion, and voter turnout was noticeably low.Broussard 1978 84 Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who received 14 electoral votes to Jefferson's 162.Dauer 2002 159, 183 General ticket Summary Virginia chose 24 electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect the members of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a block. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential nominee, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.Lampi n.d. A confusing situation unfolded in Virginia, as a result of the Virginia Federalist Party's decision not to nominate electors.Lampi 2012 n25 More than 300 candidates received votes across 93 participating counties, including 24 electors on the Democratic-Republican ticket. While the Democratic-Republican candidates ran unopposed in much of the state,Broussard 1978 84 several hundred write-in candidates received votes in a handful of counties as Federalist or "opposition" electors. Some opposition tickets included electors on the Democratic-Republican slate, while others were believed to be wholly fictitious.Lampi 2012 n25, n36, n54–55, n59, n63–64 Although a clandestine gathering of Congressional Federalists had nominated Pinckney in February,Broussard 1978 83 the Virginia anti-Jefferson electors were apparently unpledged.Lampi 2012 n25 In sum, the leading Democratic-Republican elector, William H. Cabell, received 12,926 votes; the leading Federalist elector received 75 votes; while several dozen unknown candidates received between 1 and 16 votes as anti-Jefferson electors. Cabell received 45 votes on opposition tickets, while James Allen received 12,866 votes as a Democratic-Republican and two votes as a Federalist.Lampi 2012 Final Result, n36, n50–55, n59, n61, n63–64, n78–79 The following table calculates the sum of the votes for the leading electors in each county to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote; for accuracy, votes for Cabell and Allen on anti-Jefferson tickets are subtracted from the Democratic-Republican total. 1804 United States presidential election in VirginiaLampi 2012 Democratic-Republican Party Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton 12,914 98.94 Federalist Party Unpledged electors (write-in) 129 0.99 9 0.07 13,052 100.00 Results + 1804 United States presidential election in VirginiaLampi 2012 Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican William H. CabellIncluding 45 votes on opposition tickets. 12,926 Democratic-Republican George Wythe 12,885 Democratic-Republican John Taylor 12,880 Democratic-Republican George Penn 12,878 Democratic-Republican Archibald Stewart 12,877 Democratic-Republican Larkin Smith 12,876 Democratic-Republican John Taliaferro 12,876 Democratic-Republican Creed Taylor 12,876 Democratic-Republican Mann Page 12,875 Democratic-Republican John Goodrich 12,873 Democratic-Republican Hugh Holmes 12,873 Democratic-Republican John Minor 12,873 Democratic-Republican Richard Brent 12,872 Democratic-Republican Richard Field 12,871 Democratic-Republican William Ellzey 12,870 Democratic-Republican Richard Evers Lee 12,869 Democratic-Republican Thomas Read 12,869 Democratic-Republican James AllenIncluding two votes on a Federalist ticket. 12,868 Democratic-Republican James MacFarlane 12,867 Democratic-Republican William McKinley 12,867 Democratic-Republican John Preston 12,866 Democratic-Republican James Daily 12,865 Democratic-Republican William Dudley 12,863 Democratic-Republican Edward Pegram 12,859 Write-inExcluding votes for unknown candidates. 2,520 Total votes ≈13,052 Results by county + 1804 United States presidential election in Virginia by countyLampi 2012 County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Other Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Accomack 23 100.00 — — 23 100.00 23 Albemarle 416 100.00 — — 416 100.00 416 Amelia 93 100.00 — — 93 100.00 93 Amherst 67 100.00 — — 67 100.00 67 Augusta 289cabell-dr Including votes for William H. Cabell as an elector on the Democratic-Republican ticket. 91.17 28cabell-f Including votes for William H. Cabell as an elector on the Federalist ticket. 8.83 — 261 82.33 317 Bath 33 100.00 — — 33 100.00 33 Bedford 53 100.00 — — 53 100.00 53 Berkeley 134 100.00 — — 134 100.00 134 Botetourt 81 100.00 — — 81 100.00 81 Brooke 149 100.00 — — 149 100.00 149 Brunswick 83 100.00 — — 83 100.00 83 Buckingham 262 100.00 — — 262 100.00 262 Campbell 84 100.00 — — 84 100.00 84 Caroline 166 100.00 — — 166 100.00 166 Charles City 73 100.00 — — 73 100.00 73 Charlotte 316 100.00 — — 316 100.00 316 Chesterfield 126 100.00 — — 126 100.00 126 City of Williamsburg 42 84.00 8 16.00 — 34 68.00 50 Culpeper 192 99.48 1 0.52 — 191 98.96 193 Cumberland 109 100.00 — — 109 100.00 109 Dinwiddie 81 100.00 — — 81 100.00 81 Elizabeth City 57 100.00 — — 57 100.00 57 Essex 138 99.28 1 0.72 — 137 98.56 139 Fairfax 171 90.00 19 10.00 — 152 80.00 190 Fauquier 91 100.00 — — 91 100.00 91 Fluvanna 183 100.00 — — 183 100.00 183 Franklin 171 100.00 — — 171 100.00 171 Frederick 316 100.00 — — 316 100.00 316 Gloucester 226 99.56 — 1 0.44% 226 99.56 227 Goochland 160 100.00 — — 160 100.00 160 Grayson 49 100.00 — — 49 100.00 49 Greenbrier 81cabell-dr 97.59 2cabell-f 2.41 — 79 95.18 83 Greensville 94 100.00 — — 94 100.00 94 Halifax 398 100.00 — — 398 100.00 398 Hampshire 90 100.00 — — 90 100.00 90 Hanover 171 100.00 — — 171 100.00 171 Hardy 32 100.00 — — 32 100.00 32 Harrison 317 100.00 — — 317 100.00 317 Henrico 230 100.00 — — 230 100.00 230 Henry 78 100.00 — — 78 100.00 78 Isle of Wight 239 100.00 — — 239 100.00 239 James City 66 95.65 3 4.35 — 63 91.30 69 Jefferson 98 100.00 — — 98 100.00 98 Kanawha ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data King and Queen 270 100.00 — — 270 100.00 270 King George 96 91.43 9 8.57 — 87 82.86 105 King William 85 100.00 — — 85 100.00 85 Lancaster 183 97.34 5cabell-f 2.66 — 178 94.68 188 Lee 62 100.00 — — 62 100.00 62 Loudoun 57 100.00 — — 57 100.00 57 Louisa 130 100.00 — — 130 100.00 130 Lunenburg 68 100.00 — — 68 100.00 68 Madison 160 100.00 — — 160 100.00 160 Mathews 103 100.00 — — 103 100.00 103 Mecklenburg 145 100.00 — — 145 100.00 145 Middlesex 137 97.86 3 2.14 — 134 95.71 140 Monongalia 272 91.28 26 8.72 — 246 82.55 298 Monroe 72 92.31 6 7.69 — 66 84.62 78 Montgomery 61 100.00 — — 61 100.00 61 Nansemond 23 100.00 — — 23 100.00 23 New Kent 47 100.00 — — 47 100.00 47 Norfolk 305 99.67 1 0.33 — 304 99.35 306 Northampton 8 100.00 — — 8 100.00 8 Northumberland 219 100.00 — — 219 100.00 219 Nottoway 84 100.00 — — 84 100.00 84 Ohio 145 98.64 2 1.36 — 143 97.28 147 Orange 124 100.00 — — 124 100.00 124 Patrick 40 100.00 — — 40 100.00 40 Pendleton 119cabell-dr 92.25 10cabell-f 7.75 — 109 84.50 129 Pittsylvania 358 100.00 — — 358 100.00 358 Powhatan 111 100.00 — — 111 100.00 111 Prince Edward 188 100.00 — — 188 100.00 188 Prince George 57 100.00 — — 57 100.00 57 Prince William 124 98.41 2 1.59 — 122 96.83 126 Princess Anne 153 100.00 — — 153 100.00 153 Randolph 58 ** No data ** No dataAt least 13 distinct Federalist tickets received an unknown number of votes. — ** No data ** No data Richmond 132 100.00 — — 132 100.00 132 Rockbridge 240 100.00 — — 240 100.00 240 Rockingham 421 100.00 — — 421 100.00 421 Russell 31 100.00 — — 31 100.00 31 Shenandoah 360 100.00 — — 360 100.00 360 Southampton 133 100.00 — — 133 100.00 133 Spotsylvania 102 100.00 — — 102 100.00 102 Stafford 63 100.00 — — 63 100.00 63 Surry 93 100.00 — — 93 100.00 93 Sussex 203 100.00 — — 203 100.00 203 Tazewell 49 100.00 — — 49 100.00 49 Warwick 51 100.00 — — 51 100.00 51 Washington 409 100.00 — — 409 100.00 409 Westmoreland 68 100.00 — — 68 100.00 68 Wood 65 89.04 — 8 10.96 65 89.04 73 Wythe 33 100.00 — — 33 100.00 33 York 69 95.83 3 4.17 — 66 91.67 72 TOTAL 12,914 98.94 129 0.99 9 0.07 12,785 97.95 13,052 See also United States presidential elections in Virginia Notes References Bibliography Broussard James H. The Southern Federalists, 1800–1816 1978 Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge https://archive.org/details/southernfederali0000brou Dauer Manning Julian Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. Israel Fred L. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001 1 Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia 2002 Election of 1804 159–82 https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01schl/page/158/mode/2up Harman John Newton Annals of Tazewell County, Virginia, from 1800 to 1922 1 1922 W. C. Hill Printing Company Richmond https://www.google.com/books/edition/Annals_of_Tazewell_County_Virginia_from/wSMSAAAAYAAJ Lampi Philip J. Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/?f%5Boffice_id_ssim%5D%5B%5D=ON056 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 28, 2026 n.d. Lampi Philip J. Virginia 1804 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/7m01bn32j A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 27, 2026 2012 Category:1804 United States presidential election Category:United States presidential elections in Virginia