1816 United States presidential election in Virginia

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1816 United States presidential election in Virginia

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Nominee James Monroe Party Democratic-Republican Home state Virginia Electoral vote 25 Popular vote 6,859 Percentage 99.9%

County results Monroe   90–100% No data

President before election James Madison Democratic-Republican Elected President James Monroe Democratic-Republican

A presidential election was held in Virginia on November 4, 1816 as part of the 1816 United States presidential election. ^[1] The Democratic-Republican ticket of the U.S. secretary of state James Monroe and the governor of New York Daniel D. Tompkins defeated the Federalist ticket. ^[2] The Federalist Party failed to nominate a candidate. ^[3] 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. ^[4]

General election

Summary

Virginia chose 25 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. ^[5] This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.

1816 United States presidential election in Virginia ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic-Republican	James Monroe Daniel D. Tompkins	6,859	99.94
	Federalist	Unpledged electors	4	0.06
Total votes			6,863	100.00

Results

1816 United States presidential election in Virginia ^{[7] [a]}

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Democratic-Republican	Mark Alexander	200
	Democratic-Republican	Branch T. Archer	200
	Democratic-Republican	William Lee Ball	200
	Democratic-Republican	John T. Brooke	200
	Democratic-Republican	Joseph Carrington Cabell	200
	Democratic-Republican	John Dixon	200
	Democratic-Republican	Isaac Foster	200
	Democratic-Republican	Charles G. Graves	200
	Democratic-Republican	Hugh Holmes	200
	Democratic-Republican	William Jones	200
	Democratic-Republican	George Newton	200
	Democratic-Republican	Brazure W. Pryor	200
	Democratic-Republican	John Purnall	200
	Democratic-Republican	Andrew Russell	200
	Democratic-Republican	Archibald Stuart	200
	Democratic-Republican	Charles Taylor	200
	Democratic-Republican	Robert Taylor	200
	Democratic-Republican	John Webster	200
	Democratic-Republican	Charles Yancey	200
	Democratic-Republican	John Pegram	199
	Democratic-Republican	George Penn	199
	Democratic-Republican	William G. Poindexter	199
	Democratic-Republican	Spencer Roane	199
	Democratic-Republican	Sthreshley Rennolds	198
	Democratic-Republican	Archibald Rutherford	197
	Federalist	Robert B. Taylor	4
	Federalist	Robert White	4
	None	John Scott	3
	None	Enoch Mason	3
	None	Thomas Nelson	3
	Federalist	Robert Porterfield	3
	None	Thomas Van Swearingen	3
	Federalist	George Adams	1
	Federalist	Charles Cameron	1
	Federalist	John Campbell	1
	Federalist	Paul Carrington	1
	Federalist	Robert Christian	1
	Federalist	Thomas Evans	1
	Federalist	John M. Gannett	1
	Federalist	Robert Gratton	1
	Federalist	James H. Hooe	1
	Federalist	Hudson Martin, Sr.	1
	Federalist	John Nelson	1
	Federalist	Isaac Olay	1
	Federalist	David Patterson	1
	None	Edward Pegram	1
	None	George Pegram	1
	Federalist	Burt Powell	1
	Federalist	Joseph T. Price	1
	Federalist	Archibald Ritchie	1
	Federalist	Benjamin Sheppard	1
	Federalist	James Stephenson	1
	Federalist	Isaac Swoop	1
	Federalist	William Tate	1
	None	George K. Taylor	1
	Federalist	Richard T. Taylor	1
	Federalist	Isaac Williams	1
	Federalist	Henry Young	1
	Federalist	Noah Zane	1
	Democratic-Republican	William Archer [b]	0
	Democratic-Republican	William Brockenbrough [b]	0
	Democratic-Republican	Benjamin Cook [b]	0
	Democratic-Republican	John Edie [b]	0
	Democratic-Republican	Daniel Morgan [b]	0
	Democratic-Republican	Robert B. Starke [c]	0
Total			≥204

Results by county

County	James Monroe Democratic-Republican		Unpledged electors Federalist		Margin		Total
	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent
Accomack	5	100.00	—		5	100.00	5
Albemarle	259	100.00	—		259	100.00	259
Amelia	39	100.00	—		39	100.00	39
Amherst	72	100.00	—		72	100.00	72
Augusta	53	100.00	—		53	100.00	53
Bath	29	100.00	—		29	100.00	29
Bedford	84	100.00	—		84	100.00	84
Berkeley	66	100.00	—		66	100.00	66
Botetourt	74	100.00	—		74	100.00	74
Brooke	90	100.00	—		90	100.00	90
Brunswick	45	100.00	—		45	100.00	45
Buckingham	105	100.00	—		105	100.00	105
Cabell	**		**		**		**
Campbell	87	100.00	—		87	100.00	87
Caroline	58	100.00	—		58	100.00	58
Charles City	23	100.00	—		23	100.00	23
Charlotte	112	100.00	—		112	100.00	112
Chesterfield	143	100.00	—		143	100.00	143
Culpepper	75	100.00	—		75	100.00	75
Cumberland	46	100.00	—		46	100.00	46
Dinwiddie	30	100.00	—		30	100.00	30
Elizabeth City	65	100.00	—		65	100.00	65
Essex	61	98.39	1	1.61	60	96.78	62
Fairfax	93	100.00	—		93	100.00	93
Fauquier	65	95.59	3	4.41	62	91.18	68
Fluvanna	45	100.00	—		45	100.00	45
Franklin	106	100.00	—		106	100.00	106
Frederick	146	100.00	—		146	100.00	146
Giles	25	100.00	—		25	100.00	25
Gloucester	144	100.00	—		144	100.00	144
Goochland	51	100.00	—		51	100.00	51
Grayson	49	100.00	—		49	100.00	49
Greenbrier	17	100.00	—		17	100.00	17
Halifax	83	100.00	—		83	100.00	83
Hampshire	6	100.00	—		6	100.00	6
Hanover	39	100.00	—		39	100.00	39
Hardy	8	100.00	—		8	100.00	8
Harrison	96	100.00	—		96	100.00	96
Henrico	242	100.00	—		242	100.00	242
Henry	24	100.00	—		24	100.00	24
Isle of Wight	160	100.00	—		160	100.00	160
James City	67	100.00	—		67	100.00	67
Jefferson	30	100.00	—		30	100.00	30
Kanawha	**		**		**		**
King and Queen	79	100.00	—		79	100.00	79
King George	63	100.00	—		63	100.00	63
King William	36	100.00	—		36	100.00	36
Lancaster	96	100.00	—		96	100.00	96
Lee	**		**		**		*
Lewis	**		**		**		**
Loudoun	66	100.00	—		66	100.00	66
Louisa	102	100.00	—		102	100.00	102
Lunenburg	47	100.00	—		47	100.00	47
Madison	98	100.00	—		98	100.00	98
Mason	68	100.00	—		68	100.00	68
Mathews	27	100.00	—		27	100.00	27
Mecklenburg	69	100.00	—		69	100.00	69
Middlesex	105	100.00	—		105	100.00	105
Monongalia	**		**		**		**
Monroe	55	100.00	—		55	100.00	55
Montgomery	**		**		**		**
Nansemond	39	100.00	—		39	100.00	39
Nelson	49	100.00	—		49	100.00	49
New Kent	26	100.00	—		26	100.00	26
Norfolk	213	100.00	—		213	100.00	213
Northampton	**		**		**		**
Northumberland	139	100.00	—		139	100.00	139
Nottoway	49	100.00	—		49	100.00	49
Ohio	38	100.00	—		38	100.00	38
Orange	74	100.00	—		74	100.00	74
Patrick	59	100.00	—		59	100.00	59
Pendleton	94	100.00	—		94	100.00	94
Pittsylvania	104	100.00	—		104	100.00	104
Powhatan	**		**		**		**
Prince Edward	52	100.00	—		52	100.00	52
Prince George	145	100.00	—		145	100.00	145
Prince William	63	100.00	—		63	100.00	63
Princess Anne	84	100.00	—		84	100.00	84
Randolph	**		**		**		**
Richmond	74	100.00	—		74	100.00	74
Rockbridge	127	100.00	—		127	100.00	127
Rockingham	107	100.00	—		107	100.00	107
Russell	**		**		**		**
Scott	13	100.00	—		13	100.00	13
Shenandoah	260	100.00	—		260	100.00	260
Southampton	91	100.00	—		91	100.00	91
Spotsylvania	111	100.00	—		111	100.00	111
Stafford	62	100.00	—		62	100.00	62
Surry	52	100.00	—		52	100.00	52
Sussex	88	100.00	—		88	100.00	88
Tazewell	32	100.00	—		32	100.00	32
Tyler	63	100.00	—		63	100.00	63
Warwick	49	100.00	—		49	100.00	49
Washington	97	100.00	—		97	100.00	97
Westmoreland	38	100.00	—		38	100.00	38
City of Williamsburg	29	100.00	—		29	100.00	29
Wood	169	100.00	—		169	100.00	169
Wythe	25	100.00	—		25	100.00	25
York	42	100.00	—		42	100.00	42
TOTAL	6,859	99.94	4	0.06	6,855	99.88	6,863

Electoral college

1816 United States Electoral College vote in Virginia ^[4]

For president				For vice president
Candidate	Party	Home state	Electoral vote	Candidate	Party	Home state	Electoral vote
James Monroe	Democratic-Republican	Virginia	25	Daniel D. Tompkins	Democratic-Republican	New York	25
Total			25	Total			25

See also

• United States presidential elections in Virginia

References

1. Incomplete results based on returns from Essex, Fauquier, and Richmond counties
2. Archer, Brockenbrough, Cook, Edie, and Morgan are listed as "elected" by the United States Telegraph (published 1828), but not by the original election returns. ^[8]
3. Voted in the Electoral College ^[9]

1. "Electors of President & Vice President of the United States". Richmond Enquirer. November 9, 1816.
2. Dubin 2002, pp. 24–25.
3. Turner 2002, p. 307.
4. National Archives and Records Administration n.d.
5. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 34.
6. Dubin 2002, pp. 24–25; Lampi 2012.
7. Lampi 2012.
8. Lampi 2012, n26.
9. Lampi 2012, n27.

Bibliography

• Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788–1860: The Official Results by County and State. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
• Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved March 19, 2025.
• Lampi, Philip J. (January 11, 2012). "Virginia 1816 Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
• National Archives and Records Administration (n.d.). "1816 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
• Ratcliffe, Donald J. (Spring 2014). "Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824". Journal of the Early Republic. 34 (1): 45–77. JSTOR   24486931.
• Turner, Lynn W. (2002). "Elections of 1816 and 1820". In Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.; Israel, Fred L. (eds.). History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. pp. 298–345.