TOTAL POPULAR VOTE AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. NOTE.-See page 258 for reason why no returns of the popular vote prior to 1824 are given. *The Electors of six States for 1824 were chosen by the Legislatures; in 1828 they were all chosen by the people, except in South Carolina. This will explain the great increase of the popular vote at the election of 1828. † Increase from 1860 to 1872. Percentage of the Total Vote Cast received by Candidates for President at each Election from 1804 to 1876. For those who received electoral votes in place of Horace Greeley, deceased, see ELEOTORAL VOTE of 1872, p. 280, FULL TABLES OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. I. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 1789 * Previous to the election of 1804 each elector voted for two candidates for President; the one receiving the highest number of votes, if a majority, was declared elected President; and the next highest Vice-President. + Three States out of thirteen did not vote, viz.: New York, which had not passed an electoral law; and North Carolina and Rhode Island, which had not adopted the Constitution. There having been a tie vote, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the 36th ballot, which was as follows: Jefferson-Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia 10 States; Burr-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island -4 States; Blank-Delaware and South Carolina-2 States. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). No choice having been made by the Electoral College, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the first ballot, which was as follows: Adams-Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont-13 States; JacksonAlabama, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee— 7 States; Crawford-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-4 States. No candidate having received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College, the Senate elected R. M. Johnson Vice-President, who received 33 votes; Francis Granger received 16. SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). 1856 31 296 Democratic James Buchanan... 19 ... Wm. R. King... 254 ... 1,838,169 174 J. C. Breckinr'ge 174 Republican. John C. Fremont.. 11 1,341,264 114 Wm. L. Dayton. 114 American.. Millard Fillmore.. 1 874,534 8 A. J. Donelson.. 1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17 Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11 Cons. Union John Bell.. Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas... 8 1,866,352 180 Hannibal Hamlin 180 72 845,763 72 Joseph Lane.. 589,581 39 Edward Everett. 39 2 1,375,157 12 H. V. Johnson.. 12 3 1864 36 314 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 22 2,216,067 212 Andrew Johnson 212 Democratic Geo. B. McClellan.. 3 1,808,725 21 G. H. Pendleton. 21 Vacancies.... 11 81 81 1868 +37 317 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 26 3,015,071 214 Schuyler Colfax. 214 Democratic. Horatio Seymour 8 2,709,613 80 F. P. Blair, Jr... 80 Vacancies... 3 23 31 3,597,070 286 23 Henry Wilson... 286 B. Gratz Brown. 47 Geo. W. Julian.. 5 A. H. Colquitt... 5 42 John M. Palmer. 18 T. E. Bramlette. 3 3 1876 38 369 Republican. Rutherford B. Hayes 21 4,033,950 185 Wm. A. Wheeler 185 Democratic. Samuel J. Tilden... 17 4,284,885 184 T. A. Hendricks 184 Greenback.. Peter Cooper.. *Eleven States did not vote, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia." Three States did not vote, viz.: Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. Three electoral votes of Georgia cast for Horace Greeley, and the votes of Arkansas, 6, and Louisiana, 8, cast for U. S. Grant, were rejected. If all had been included in the count, the electoral vote would have been 300 for U. S. Grant, and 66 for opposing candidates. II.—ELECTORAL VOTE, BY STATES, FOR PRESIDENT AND VICEPRESIDENT, 1789-1876. ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1789.* No returns of the popular vote for President are preserved with any fulness previous to 1824. During the earlier elections the States, or a majority of them, chose the Presidential Electors by their Legislatures, and not by popular vote. Even as late as 1824, six States thus voted, while one State (South Carolina) continued to choose Presidential Electors by her Legislature until 1868. * From 1789 to the election of 1804 the Electors voted for President and Vice-President on the same ballot, the one receiving the highest number of votes being President. and Rhode Island † New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island did not vote, the New York Legislature having failed to agree on the mode of choosing electors, and North Carolina not having ratified the Constitution in time to take part in the election. |