1816 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1816 United States presidential election 1816 United States presidential election in New Jersey United States 1795 presidential no 1812 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1812 1820 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1820 November 5–6, 1816 VA TN 200x200px File:James Monroe by John Vanderlyn (cropped).jpg James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party Virginia Daniel D. Tompkins 8 5,441 99.0% 2em 150x150px Unpledged electors Federalist Party N/ANo candidate formally nominated N/A 0 54 1.0% File:1816 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 150px County results Monroe #005113 >90% No data 808080 President James Madison Democratic-Republican Party James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in New Jersey on November 5 and 6, 1816 as part of the 1816 United States presidential election. The Democratic-Republican ticket of the U.S. secretary of state James Monroe and the governor of New York Daniel D. Tompkins defeated the Federalist ticket.Lampi Philip J. New Jersey 1816 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/df65v867z A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society April 2, 2025 The Federalist Party failed to nominate a candidate.Turner Lynn W. Schlesinger Arthur M. Jr. Israel Fred L. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001 1 Chelsea House Publishers Philadelphia 2002 Elections of 1816 and 1820 307 https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01schl/page/298/mode/2up In the national election, Monroe easily defeated the senior U.S. senator from New York Rufus King, who received 34 votes from unpledged electors despite not being a candidate.1816 Electoral College Results https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1816 National Archives February 22, 2025 General election Summary New Jersey chose eight electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party.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 19, 2025 Ratcliffe Donald J. Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824 Journal of the Early Republic Spring 2014 34 1 57 24486931 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24486931 This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket to give an approximate sense of the statewide result. 1816 United States presidential election in New Hampshire Democratic-Republican Party James MonroeDaniel D. Tompkins 5,441 99.02 Federalist Party Unpledged electors 54 0.98 5,495 100.00 Results + 1816 United States presidential election in New Jersey Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Charles Ogden 5,441 Democratic-Republican John Crowell 5,433 Democratic-Republican David Welch 5,432 Democratic-Republican Lewis Moore 5,409 Democratic-Republican Daniel Garrison 5,408 Democratic-Republican Aaron Vansycle 5,388 Democratic-Republican Aaron Kitchell 5,352 Democratic-Republican William Rossell 5,310 None Benjamin Ludlow 142 None John Beatty 64 None Samuel More 55 None William Irick 54 Federalist Frederick Frelinghuysen 54 None Charles Ewing 50 Federalist Samuel Bayard 49 None Ebenezer Elmer 39 None John N. Simpson 32 None William W. Harrison 31 None Charles Kinsey 17 None Robert Colfax 15 None John Outwater 13 None Jonathan Ogden 8 None Alexander Kirkpatrick 8 None Anthony Taylor 7 None Mahlon Ford 7 None Sylvester D. Russell 6 None John Buck 1 None Joseph Cooper 1 None Morris Hancock 1 None Andrew Hancock 1 None Sheppard Kollack 1 None William Sanford Pennington 1 None David Thompson 1 Total ≥5,495 Results by county This table compares the result for the most popular Democratic-Republican and Federalist electors in each county with surviving returns. The totals presented thus differ slightly from the statewide results summary, which compares the results for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket statewide. County James MonroeDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Margin Total Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes Percent Bergen ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Burlington ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Cape May ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Cumberland 291 99.66 1 0.34 290 99.32 292 Essex ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Gloucester 203 92.27 17 7.73 186 84.54 220 Hunterdon 591 95.02 31 4.98 560 90.04 622 Middlesex ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Monmouth 460 100.00 — 460 100.00 460 Morris ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Salem ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Somerset ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Sussex 773 99.23 6 0.77 767 98.46 779 TOTAL 2,318 97.68 55 2.32 2,263 95.36 2,373 Electoral college + 1816 United States Electoral College vote in New Jersey For President For Vice President Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote James Monroe Democratic-Republican Virginia 8 Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican New York 8 Total 8 Total 8 See also United States presidential elections in New Jersey Notes References New Jersey 1816 Category:1816 New Jersey elections Category:Long stubs with short prose