United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1796

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1796
Pennsylvania
1796

 
Nominee Thomas Jefferson John Adams
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Home state Virginia Massachusetts
Running mate Aaron Burr Thomas Pinckney
Electoral vote 14 1
Popular vote 12,516 12,229
Percentage 50.58% 49.42%

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.

Pennsylvania voted for the Democratic-Republican candidate, Thomas Jefferson, over the Federalist candidate, John Adams. Jefferson won Pennsylvania by a margin of 1.16%. 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 two highest vote-getting Adams electors received more votes than the two lowest vote-getting Jefferson electors and the electoral vote was split, with 14 of 15 electors casting their ballots for Jefferson.[2]

Results

United States presidential election in Pennsylvania, 1796[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson 12,516 50.58% 14
Federalist John Adams 12,229 49.42% 1
Totals 24,745 100.0% 15

County results

County[2] Adams % Adams # Jefferson % Jefferson # Total
Allegheny 16.42% 77 83.58% 392 469
Bedford 5.00% 10 95.00% 190 200
Berks 44.79% 576 55.21% 710 1,286
Bucks 73.60% 1,001 26.40% 359 1,360
Chester 81.29% 530 18.71% 122 652
Cumberland 21.81% 238 78.19% 853 1,091
Dauphin 65.12% 435 34.88% 233 668
Delaware 71.07% 312 28.93% 127 439
Fayette 14.14% 67 85.86% 407 474
Franklin 41.69% 246 58.31% 344 590
Greene 17.32% 44 82.68% 210 254
Huntingdon 93.43% 313 6.57% 22 335
Lancaster 76.90% 2,061 23.10% 619 2,680
Luzerne 98.07% 407 1.93% 8 415
Mifflin 5.44% 27 94.56% 469 496
Montgomery 61.57% 532 38.43% 332 864
Northampton 44.65% 371 55.35% 460 831
Northumberland & Lycoming 15.77% 149 84.23% 796 945
Philadelphia (City) 38.63% 1,091 61.37% 1,733 2,824
Philadelphia (County) 17.88% 399 82.12% 1,832 2,231
Somerset 64.86% 48 35.14% 26 74
Washington 1.64% 21 98.36% 1,259 1,280
Westmoreland 5.63% 52 94.37% 872 924
York 95.81% 3,222 4.19% 141 3,363
Source: [2]

Notes

  1. Greene County's returns are included in the grand totals in this article, as well as the county results table.

References

  1. "1796 ELECTION FOR THE THIRD TERM, 1797-1801". National Archives. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1796". Wilkes University. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
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