1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky

none June 2025 December 2025 ly 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky Kentucky File:Flag of the United States (1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Kentucky 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Kentucky 1808 November 2, 1804 TN PA 200x200px File:Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 (Cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party (United States) Virginia George Clinton 8 5,080 100.0% File:1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky results map by county.svg 400px County results Jefferson #005113 90–100% No data #808080 President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in Kentucky between November 2, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.Kentucky https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024012/1804-11-26/ed-1/?sp=3 Alexandria Daily Advertiser November 26, 1804 The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton was elected unanimously.Lampi 2012a Lampi 2012b Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the Federalist former U.S. minister to France, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.Dauer 2002 159 General election Summary Kentucky voters chose eight electors from a field of 31 candidates, all Democratic-Republicans, who ran in the state's two multi-member districts.Lampi 2012a Lampi 2012b 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 calculates the sum of the votes for the leading Democratic-Republican candidate in each district to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote. 1804 United States presidential election in KentuckyLampi 2012a Lampi 2012b Democratic-Republican Party Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton 5,080 100.00 5,080 100.00 Results by district + District E.V. Electoral Votes Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Total Votes % E.V. Electoral Votes Kentucky–Northern 4 2,827 100.00 4 2,827 Kentucky–Southern 4 2,253 100.00 4 2,253 TOTAL 8 5,080 100.00 8 5,080 Northern District + 1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky's Northern DistrictLampi 2012a Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Charles Scott 2,827 Democratic-Republican John Coburn 1,806 Democratic-Republican Hubbard Taylor 1,592 Democratic-Republican William Irvine 1,267 Democratic-Republican Thomas Bodley 1,185 Democratic-Republican James Garrard 777 Democratic-Republican Robert Sanders 695 Democratic-Republican Duval Payne 386 Democratic-Republican Robert Todd 385 Democratic-Republican John Hall 317 Democratic-Republican George S. Smith 263 Democratic-Republican John Price 226 Democratic-Republican Thomas Irwin 52 Total votes ≈2,827 Southern District + 1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky's Southern DistrictLampi 2012b Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Isaac Shelby 2,253 Democratic-Republican Ninian Edwards 1,585 Democratic-Republican Joseph Lewis 1,310 Democratic-Republican William Roberts 1,207 Total votes ≈2,253 Results by county This table shows the highest vote for a Democratic-Republican elector in each county. Returns are missing from all but a few counties; the totals presented here therefore differ significantly from the statewide summary based on the district returns. County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Total Votes % Adair ** No data ** No data Barren ** No data ** No data Boone ** No data ** No data Bourbon ** No data ** No data Bracken ** No data ** No data Breckinridge ** No data ** No data Bullitt ** No data ** No data Campbell ** No data ** No data Christian ** No data ** No data Clarke ** No data ** No data Cumberland ** No data ** No data Fayette ** No data ** No data Fleming ** No data ** No data Floyd ** No data ** No data Franklin 442 100.00 442 Gallatin ** No data ** No data Garrard ** No data ** No data Green ** No data ** No data Greenup ** No data ** No data Hardin 104 100.00 104 Harrison ** No data ** No data Henderson ** No data ** No data Henry ** No data ** No data Jefferson ** No data ** No data Jessamine ** No data ** No data Knox ** No data ** No data Lincoln ** No data ** No data Livingston ** No data ** No data Logan ** No data ** No data Madison ** No data ** No data Mason ** No data ** No data Mercer ** No data ** No data Montgomery ** No data ** No data Muhlenberg ** No data ** No data Nelson 277 100.00 277 Nicholas ** No data ** No data Ohio ** No data ** No data Pendleton ** No data ** No data Pulaski ** No data ** No data Scott ** No data ** No data Shelby 403 100.00 403 Warren ** No data ** No data Washington 175 100.00 175 Wayne ** No data ** No data Woodford ** No data ** No data TOTAL 1,401 100.00 1,401 See also United States presidential elections in Kentucky 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. Kentucky 1804 Electoral College, Northern District https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/bv73c0755 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 28, 2026 2012a Lampi Philip J. Kentucky 1804 Electoral College, Southern District https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/ng451j06v A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 27, 2026 2012b Kentucky Category:United States presidential elections in Kentucky Category:1804 Kentucky elections Category:November 1804 Category:December 1804