1804 United States presidential election in New Jersey

none June 2025 September 2023 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States presidential election in New Jersey New Jersey File:Flag of the United States (1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1800 1808 United States presidential election in New Jersey 1808 November 6–7, 1804 VA NC 200x200px File:Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800) (3x4 cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Virginia George Clinton 8 13,119 99.9% 2em 150x150px Unpledged electors Federalist Party N/A N/A 0 19 0.1% File:1804 United States presidential election in New Jersey results map by county.svg 150px County results Jefferson #005113 >90% No data 808080 President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in New Jersey on November 6 and 7, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.Lampi 2012 n12 The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton was elected virtually without opposition.Dauer 2002 168 Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Although a clandestine gathering of Federalist members of Congress had nominated Pinckney in February, in states where electors were chosen by popular vote, the Federalist ticket was formally unpledged. The New Jersey Federalist Party did not formally nominate electors, but a few Federalists received votes as write-in candidates.Dauer 2002 159, 162, 168 General election Summary New Jersey chose eight 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. The following table compares the votes for the leading Democratic-Republican and Federalist electors to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote. 1804 United States presidential election in New JerseyLampi 2012 Democratic-Republican Party Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton 13,119 99.86 Federalist Party Unpledged electors (write-in) 19 0.14 13,138 100.00 Results + 1804 United States presidential election in New JerseyLampi 2012 Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Phineas Manning 13,119 Democratic-Republican Alexander Carmichael 13,109 Democratic-Republican Thomas Newbold 13,100 Democratic-Republican Solomon Freleigh 13,095 Democratic-Republican William Rossell 13,094 Democratic-Republican Jacob Hufty 13,066 Democratic-Republican Abijah Smith 13,062 Democratic-Republican Moore Furman 13,039 Federalist Aaron Ogden 19 Federalist Richard Stockton 11 Federalist Franklin Davenport 8colspan=2 James Schureman 8 Federalist Samuel Stanhope Smith 7colspan=2 A. D. Woodruff 6colspan=2 Thomas Bullman 6colspan=2 William W. MacCullough 6 Federalist Isaac Smith 5 Federalist Thomas Sinnickson 5colspan=2 Alexander MacWhorter 5colspan=2 John Kinney 4colspan=2 Philemon Dickinson 4colspan=2 Thomas Anderson 4colspan=2 John Holmes 4colspan=2 George Bidleman 3 Federalist John Doughty 3colspan=2 William Woodhull 3 Democratic-Republican Joseph Cooper 2colspan=2 James Stone 2 Democratic-Republican Silas Dickerson 2colspan=2 Charles Pemberton 2colspan=2 William Sanford Pennington 2 Democratic-Republican Henry Vanderveer 2colspan=2 Ebenezer Tucker 2colspan=2 Sheppard Collack 1colspan=2 Ebenezer Seeley 1 Federalist William Colfax 1 Federalist Lambert Cadwalader 1 Federalist James H. Imlay 1 Federalist Peter D. Vroom 1colspan=2 Thomas Hendry 1colspan=2 Hendrick Hendrickson 1colspan=2 Alexander Kirkpatrick 1 Total votes ≈13,138 Results by county This table compares the votes for the leading elector pledged to each ticket by county. It therefore differs slightly from the results summary, which compares the votes for the leading electors statewide. Returns from several counties appear to be lost. + 1804 United States presidential election in New JerseyLampi 2012 County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % 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 765 99.87 1 0.13 764 99.74 766 Essex 2,523 100.00 — 2,523 100.00 2,523 Gloucester 906 99.78 2 0.22 904 99.56 908 Hunterdon 1,342 100.00 — 1,342 100.00 1,342 Middlesex ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Monmouth 713 99.86 1 0.14 712 99.72 714 Morris ** No data ** No data ** No data ** No data Salem 864 100.00 — 864 100.00 864 Somerset 560 99.29 4 0.71 556 98.58 564 Sussex 1,518 99.61 6 0.39 1,512 99.22 1,524 TOTAL 9,191 99.85 14 0.15 9,177 99.70 9,205 See also United States presidential elections in New Jersey References Bibliography 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 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. New Jersey 1804 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/6q182m059 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society April 7, 2026 2012 New Jersey 1804 Category:1804 New Jersey elections