1804 United States presidential election in Massachusetts

none June 2025 July 2023 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States presidential election in Massachusetts Massachusetts File:Flag of the United States (1795-1818).svg presidential no 1800 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1800 1808 United States presidential election in Massachusetts 1808 November 5, 1804 OH NH 200x200px File:Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1805 (Cropped).jpg Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Virginia George Clinton 19 29,599 53.1% 2em 150x150px Unpledged electors Federalist Party N/A N/A 0 25,644 46.0% 1804 United States presidential election in Massachusetts results map by county.svg 250px County results Jefferson #73D873 50–60% #42CA42 60–70% #30A630 70–80% Federalist electors #DFC27D 50–60% #BF812D 60–70% #8C510A 70–80% President Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party A presidential election was held in Massachusetts on November 5, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.Massachusetts Election https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045242/1804-11-14/ed-1/?sp=3 National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser November 14, 1804 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 Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Massachusetts was one of three states where electors were chosen by popular vote which the Federalists seriously contested, in addition to Maryland and New Hampshire. Although a clandestine gathering of Federalist members of Congress had nominated Pinckney in February, the Federalist electors in Massachusetts were formally unpledged. The Boston Columbian Centinel, the state's official Federalist publication, denied that the electors were pledged to any candidate prior to the election. Manning J. Dauer attributes the Federalists' defeat in Massachusetts to the uncertainty surrounding the identity of the Federalist nominees.Dauer 2002 159, 168, 162 General election Summary Massachusetts chose 19 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 MassachusettsLampi 2012 Democratic-Republican Party Thomas JeffersonGeorge Clinton 29,599 53.06 Federalist Party Unpledged electors 25,644 45.97 538 0.86 55,781 100.00 Results + 1804 United States presidential election in MassachusettsLampi 2012 Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican William Heath 29,599 Democratic-Republican James Bowdoin III 29,598 Democratic-Republican John Davis 29,597 Democratic-Republican Josiah Dean 29,596 Democratic-Republican Charles Turner Jr. 29,596 Democratic-Republican Thomas Kittredge 29,595 Democratic-Republican Timothy Newell 29,595 Democratic-Republican John Bacon 29,594 Democratic-Republican John Farley 29,594 Democratic-Republican Thomas Fillebrown 29,594 Democratic-Republican John Hathorne 29,593 Democratic-Republican Edward Upham 29,592 Democratic-Republican John Whiting 29,592 Democratic-Republican John Woodman 29,588 Democratic-Republican James Winthrop 29,584 Democratic-Republican James Warren 29,573 Democratic-Republican James Sullivan 29,572 Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry 29,507 Democratic-Republican Jonathan Smith Jr. 28,966 Federalist Benjamin Goodhue 25,644 Federalist Samuel Wilde 25,643 Federalist George Leonard 25,642 Federalist John Lord 25,641 Federalist William Shepard 25,641 Federalist Cotton Tufts 25,640 Federalist Bailey Bartlett 25,640 Federalist John Coffin Jones Sr. 25,640 Federalist David Rosseter 25,637 Federalist William Seaver 25,637 Federalist Josiah Stearns 25,636 Federalist Isaac Parker 25,635 Federalist Thomas Rice 25,629 Federalist Joseph Allen 25,628 Federalist Ebenezer Bacon 25,627 Federalist Eleazer Brooks 25,621 Federalist Ebenezer Mattoon 25,585 Federalist David Cobb 24,506 Federalist Oliver Wendell 24,992colspan=2 William Roach Jr. 14colspan=2 John Coffin 3 Federalist John Read 2colspan=2 Joshua Thomas 2colspan=2 Azariah Eggleton 1colspan=2 Charles Freeman 1colspan=2 Benjamin Hayward 1colspan=2 Charles Jarvis 1colspan=2 Samuel Nye 1colspan=2 George Partridge 1colspan=2 Andrew Peters 1 Federalist Benjamin Pickman Jr. 1colspan=2 Daniel Sewall 1colspan=2 Dummer Sewall 1colspan=2 Albert Smith 1colspan=2 David Stearns 1colspan=2 John Stedman 1colspan=2 John Treadwell 1colspan=2 William Walker 1colspan=2 William Wetmore 1colspan=2 George Williams 1colspan=2 James Winslow 1 Scattering 538 Total votes ≈55,781 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. + 1804 United States presidential election in MassachusettsLampi 2012 County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Others Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Barnstable 724 64.13 403 35.70 2 0.18 321 28.43 1,129 Berkshire 2,146 58.47 1,520 41.42 4 0.11 626 17.05 3,670 Bristol 1,729 64.54 939 35.05 11 0.41 790 29.49 2,679 Cumberland 1,171 46.75 1,321 52.73 13 0.52 -150 -45.98 2,505 Dukes 60 37.27 101 62.73 — -41 -25.46 161 Essex 3,196 47.70 3,060 45.67 444 6.63 136 2.03 6,700 Hampshire 2,545 33.12 5,121 66.64 18 0.23 -2,576 -33.52 7,684 Hancock 649 71.24 260 28.54 2 0.22 389 42.70 911 Kennebec 1,813 66.05 931 33.92 1 0.04 882 32.13 2,745 Lincoln 1,070 51.94 987 47.91 3 0.14 83 4.03 2,060 Middlesex 3,636 68.63 1,647 31.09 15 0.28 1,989 37.54 5,298 Nantucket 176 79.64 45 20.36 — 131 59.28 221 Norfolk 2,031 67.21 980 32.43 11 0.36 1,051 34.78 3,022 Plymouth 2,036 63.13 1,188 36.84 1 0.03 848 26.29 3,225 Suffolk 1,585 40.64 2,298 58.92 17 0.44 -713 -18.28 3,900 Washington 82 27.99 210 71.67 1 0.34 -128 -43.68 293 Worcester 2,943 43.70 3,774 56.04 18 0.27 -831 -12.34 6,735 York 2,012 69.67 866 29.99 10 0.35 1,146 39.68 2,888 TOTAL 29,604 53.03 25,651 45.95 571 1.02 3,953 7.08 55,826 See also United States presidential elections in Massachusetts 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. Massachusetts 1804 Electoral College https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/qn59q517m A New Nation Votes American Antiquarian Society March 27, 2026 2012 Massachusetts 1804 Category:1804 Massachusetts elections Category:Long stubs with short prose