1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania

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1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
Flag of Pennsylvania.svg
  1792 November 4 – December 7, 1796 1800  
  ThomasJeffersonStateRoomPortrait.jpg Official Presidential portrait of John Adams (by John Trumbull, circa 1792).jpg
Nominee Thomas Jefferson John Adams
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Home state Virginia Massachusetts
Electoral vote141
Popular vote12,30612,217
Percentage50.18%49.82%

  Burr.jpg Thomas Pinckney.jpg
Nominee Aaron Burr Thomas Pinckney
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Home state New York South Carolina
Electoral vote132

Pennsylvania Presidential Election Results 1796.svg
County Results

President before election

George Washington
Nonpartisan

Elected President

John Adams
Federalist

The 1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place as part of the 1796 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, [1] who voted for President and Vice President.

Contents

Pennsylvania voted for the Democratic-Republican candidate, Thomas Jefferson, over the Federalist candidate, John Adams. Jefferson won Pennsylvania by a margin of 0.36%. Greene County's returns, which favored Jefferson, were not submitted in time to be included in the official vote totals. [note 1] As a result, the 2 highest vote-getting Adams electors received more votes than the 2 lowest vote-getting Jefferson electors and the electoral vote was split, with 14 of 15 electors casting their ballots for Jefferson. [2]

Results

1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania [2]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson 12,30650.18%14
Federalist John Adams 12,21749.82%1
Totals24,523100.00%15
Total valid votes24,52398.97%15
Rejected votes2541.03%0
Total ballots24,777100.00%15

County results

CountyJohn Adams

Federalist

Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican

Total votes cast
 %# %#
Allegheny 16.42%7783.58%392469
Bedford 9.09%1990.90%190209
Berks 44.38%57655.62%7221,298
Bucks 73.66%1,00126.34%3581,359
Chester 81.55%53518.45%121656
Cumberland 21.74%23878.26%857 1,095
Dauphin 66.57%46433.43%233697
Delaware 70.81%31329.19%129442
Fayette 14.61%7085.39%409479
Franklin 41.08%24458.92%350594
Greene 17.32%4482.68%210254
Huntingdon 93.43%3136.57%22335
Lancaster 76.90%2,06123.10%6192,680
Luzerne 98.07%4071.93%8415
Mifflin 4.69%2395.31%467490
Montgomery 61.57%53338.43%333866
Northampton 44.58%37055.42%460830
Northumberland & Lycoming 3.84%3296.16%802834
Philadelphia (City) 38.61%1,09161.39%1,7352,826
Philadelphia (County) 17.88%39982.12%1,8322,231
Somerset 64.86%4835.14%2674
Washington 1.64%2198.36%1,2591,280
Westmoreland 5.63%5294.37%872924
York 95.81%3,2244.19%1413,365
Source: [2]

See also

Notes

  1. Greene County's returns are included in the county results table.

References

  1. "1796 ELECTION FOR THE THIRD TERM, 1797-1801". National Archives. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "A New Nation Votes". elections.lib.tufts.edu. Retrieved July 20, 2024.