1804 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

none June 2025 September 2023 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Flag_of_the_United_States_(1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania 1808 November 2, 1804 KY VT 200x200px File:Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 (Cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Virginia George Clinton 20 22,081 94.7% 2em 150x150px Unpledged electors Federalist Party N/A N/A 0 1,239 5.3% 1804 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania results map by county.svg County results Jefferson #30a630 70–80% #217821 80–90% #165016 90–100% Federalist electors #dfc27d 50–60% President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in Pennsylvania on November 2, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.Higginbotham 1952 74 The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton defeated the Federalist Party's ticket.Lampi 2012 The Democratic-Republican members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly held a caucus on March 22 and nominated electors pledged to Jefferson and Clinton. The Federalists were disorganized and pessimistic about their ability to carry the state. A gathering of Federalists met in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on October 25 and belatedly nominated electors; although a clandestine meeting of Congressional Federalists had nominated Charles Cotesworth Pinckney for president in February, the Federalist ticket was formally unpledged. Predictions that the Federalists would seek to exploit factionalism within the Pennsylvania Democratic-Republican Party proved unfounded, for Jefferson carried all but one of the state's 32 counties with nearly 95 percent of the votes.Higginbotham 1952 74–75 General election Summary Pennsylvania chose 20 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 PennsylvaniaLampi 2012 Democratic-Republican Party Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton 22,081 94.69 Federalist Party Unpledged electors 1,239 5.31 23,320 100.00 Electors Complete returns from all but a few counties have been lost. The results published in the Lancaster Intelligencer and the Philadelphia Aurora compare the votes for the leading electors in each county. Twenty electors were named on each ticket, in addition to write-in candidates who received scattering votes in a few counties; two Federalist tickets received votes in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, including the ticket nominated by the Federalist convention and an alternate ticket with only 15 electors. All 20 electors on the Democratic-Republican ticket were elected.Lampi 2012 Thomas Jefferson andGeorge ClintonDemocratic-Republican Party Unpledged electorsFederalist Party Unpledged electorsFederalist Party(Northampton County) text-align:center Charles Thomson William Montgomery Matthew Lawler Robert MacMullin William Brooke Thomas Long Francis Swaine Henry Speering James Boyd Peter Frailey Casper Shaffner, Jr. John Bowman William Brown George Smith Jacob Hostetter Jacob Bonnet James Montgomery John Minor John Hamilton Nathaniel Irish text-align:center George Latimer Francis Johnston Jonas Preston Cadwalader Evans John Franklin Isaac Wayne John Miller Marks John Biddle Alexander Graydon John Chapman David Watts John Blair Charles Hall Jacob Hay William MacPherson John King William Guthrie Ephraim Douglas John Hoge Alexander Addison text-align:center George Latimer Cadwalader Evans John Franklin Marks John Biddle Alexander Addison J. Arndt Thomas B. Dick Andrew Ellicott Joseph Erwin Joseph Hopkinson Benjamin R. Morgan Samuel Preston James Ross Samuel Sitgreaves Jacob Slough Results by county + 1804 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania by countyLampi 2012 County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Adams 208 45.41 250 54.59 -42 -9.17 458 Allegheny 526 100.00 — 526 100.00 526 Beaver 202 100.00 — 202 100.00 202 Bedford 174 90.62 18 9.38 156 81.25 192 Berks 2,779 97.20 80 2.80 2,699 94.40 2,859 Bucks 1,129 96.41 42 3.59 1,087 92.83 1,171 Butler 86 100.00 — 86 100.00 86 Centre 378 93.10 28 6.90 350 86.21 406 Chester 1,402 94.73 78 5.27 1,324 89.46 1,480 Crawford 208 100.00 — 208 100.00 208 Cumberland 668 88.71 85 11.29 583 77.42 753 Dauphin 569 95.95 24 4.05 545 91.90 593 Delaware 244 85.31 42 14.69 202 70.63 286 Erie 112 100.00 — 112 100.00 112 Fayette 173 100.00 — 173 100.00 173 Franklin 509 72.10 197 27.90 312 44.19 706 Greene 105 84.00 20 16.00 85 68.00 125 Huntingdon 409 71.75 161 28.25 248 43.51 570 Lancaster 1,262 97.53 32 2.47 1,230 95.05 1,294 Luzerne 276 97.18 8 2.82 268 94.37 284 Lycoming 259 100.00 — 259 100.00 259 Mercer 74 100.00 — 74 100.00 74 Mifflin 429 92.06 37 7.94 392 84.12 466 Montgomery 1,197 100.00 — 1,197 100.00 1,197 Northampton 1,670 98.18 31 1.82 1,639 96.36 1,701 Northumberland 1,138 99.56 5 0.44 1,133 99.12 1,143 Philadelphia 3,333 99.97 1 0.03 3,332 99.94 3,334 Somerset 247 88.21 33 11.79 214 76.43 280 Washington 881 100.00 — 881 100.00 881 Wayne 18 100.00 — 18 100.00 18 Westmoreland 474 98.54 7 1.46 467 97.09 481 York 942 94.01 60 5.99 882 88.02 1,002 TOTAL 22,081 94.69 1,239 5.31 20,842 89.37 23,320 See also United States presidential elections in Pennsylvania References Bibliography Higginbotham Sanford W. The Keystone in the Democratic Arch: Pennsylvania Politics, 1800–1816 1952 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Harrisburg https://archive.org/details/keystoneindemocr0000sanf/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. Pennsylvania 1804 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/t148fh649 A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 27, 2026 2012 Pennsylvania 1804 Category:1804 Pennsylvania elections