1816 United States presidential election in Rhode Island

none June 2025 January 2025 1816 United States presidential election 1816 United States presidential election in Rhode Island United States 1795 presidential no 1812 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1812 1820 United States presidential election in Rhode Island 1820 November 20, 1816 NC LA 200x200px File:James Monroe by John Vanderlyn (cropped).jpg James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party Virginia Daniel D. Tompkins 4 1,236 100.0% 300px County results 300px Municipality results 250px Monroe #005113 >90% No data 808080 President James Madison Democratic-Republican Party James Monroe Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in Rhode Island on November 20, 1816 as part of the 1816 United States presidential election.Rhode Island Republican Electoral Ticket https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024735/1816-11-14/ed-1/seq-2 Richmond Enquirer November 14, 1816 The Democratic-Republican ticket of U.S. Secretary of State James Monroe and Governor of New York Daniel D. Tompkins was elected unopposed.Lampi Philip J. Rhode Island 1816 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/9019s413h 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 Rhode Island chose four 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 shows the votes for the most popular elector pledged to the Democratic-Republican ticket to give an approximate sense of the statewide result. 1816 United States presidential election in Rhode Island Democratic-Republican Party James MonroeDaniel D. Tompkins 1,236 100.00 1,236 100.00 Results + 1816 United States presidential election in Rhode Island Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican James Fenner ** No data Democratic-Republican Thomas G. Pitman ** No data Democratic-Republican Edward Wilcox ** No data Democratic-Republican Dutee Arnold ** No data Total ≈1,236 Results by county This table records the result for the most popular Democratic-Republican elector in each county with surviving returns. The totals presented thus differ slightly from the statewide results summary, which records the result for the most popular elector statewide. County James MonroeDemocratic-Republican Total Votes Percent Bristol ** No data ** No data Kent ** No data ** No data Newport 162 100.00 162 Providence ** No data ** No data Washington ** No data ** No data TOTAL 162 100.00 162 Electoral college + 1816 United States Electoral College vote in Rhode Island For president For vice president Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote James Monroe Democratic-Republican Virginia 4 Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican New York 4 Total 4 Total 4 See also United States presidential elections in Rhode Island References Category:1816 United States presidential election by state or territory Category:United States presidential elections in Rhode Island Category:1816 Rhode Island elections