POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT-1789-1924 1 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. 2 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 Virginia10 states; Burr-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island-4 states; Blank Delaware and South Carolina-2 states. 3 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; Jackson-Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee-7 states; Crawford-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia-4 states. 1 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. 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. 233 Levi P. Morton, 233 POPULAR VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR PRESIDENT, 1789-1924. (The majority of the returns given below were compiled from official records on file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Some were obtained from old newspapers, files and other publications issued at the time of the elections. The data obtainable from the early records was so meagre that it was found impossible, in giving the vote for President, to follow any rule, but simply to give the vote as obtained. In several cases the vote given is for the elector receiving the highest vote on each ticket, in one or two cases it is the average vote for each set of electors, but since 1868 the vote for the first elector on the respective tickets is given.) Wednesday, January 7, 1789: George Washington (seven counties missing), Note: The first election for Presidential electors was held on the first Wednesday of January, 1789, under authority of an act passed by the General Assembly on October 4, 1788. The total of 5,930 given above is the vote cast in all the counties of the State except Allegheny, Bedford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Huntingdon and Westmoreland for Edward Hand, the elector receiving the highest vote; the vote of the said counties not found. Tuesday, November 6, 1792: George Washington, Federalist (Henry electors, four counties missing), George Washington, Federalist (Todd electors, four counties missing), Note: The vote of 1792 is as taken from the official returns on file in the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office, and is complete except for the counties of Washington, Franklin, Huntingdon and Mifflin, which are missing. George Washington had no opposition for President, though in a majority of the counties two sets of electors were voted for, the set of fifteen which was elected and another of twelve, whilst in many counties local candidates received the entire vote, there being nearly one hundred such persons who received from 1 to 100 votes in the State. William Henry, the first elector on the ticket elected, received a total of 3,479 in the State, four counties missing, William Todd, the first of the set of twelve electors, received a total in the State of 1,097, four counties missing. Friday, November 4, 1796: Thomas Jefferson, Republican, John Adams, Federalist, 1800 on This is the only presidential election at which the electors of Pennsylvania did not have an opportunity of expressing by popular vote their choice for President. The Legislature having failed at the regular session of 1799-1800 to provide for the choosing of presidential electors in 1800, the Governor (Thomas McKean), October 18, 1800, issued a proclamation for the assembling of the General Assembly in special session on November 5, 1800, at the court house in the borough of Lancaster, for the purpose of providing for the selection of presidential electors on behalf of Pennsylvania. The Legisla ture, after a contest between the two houses as to the method of electing the electors, passed an act, which was approved by the Governor on December 1, 1800, providing for the naming of eight candidates for presidential electors by each 5,930 House, and the selection of fifteen therefrom at a joint session of the two Houses. On December 2, 1800, the joint session of both Houses was held and the eight nominated by the House and seven of the eight nominated by the Senate, making in all fifteen (the number to which Pennsylvania was then entitled), were elected as presidential electors to represent Pennsylvania, in the choosing of a President and Vice-President in 1800. At the meeting of the electoral college eight of the electors voted for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, the Republican candidates, and seven for John Adams and C. C. Pinckney, the Federalist candidates. Friday, November 2, 1804: Friday, November 4, 1808: 3,479 22,311 1,097 ------- 1,429 -- Union 230,686 203,534 Millard Fillmore, American, --S Millard Fillmore, American, (straight ticket), Note: In 1856 Pennsylvania was entitled to twenty-seven presidential electors. The three principal sets of electors voted for were: 1st, The Democratic, in the interest of James Buchanan. 2d, The Union ticket, in the interest of John C. Fremont, Republican, and Millard Fillmore, American. There were twenty-six electors on this ticket, the twentyseventh name voted for being either that of John C. Freemont or Millard Fillmore. The total vote cast for the twenty-six Union Electors was 203,534. Of the vote for the twentyseventh elector, John C. Fremont received 147,286, and Millard Fillmore 55,852. The 3d set of electors was a straight ticket in the interest of Millard Fillmore, American, 26,337 votes being cast for said set of electors. 26,337 1,678 Note: In the case of the Republican and McKinley-Citizen parties in 1896, the electors were the same and were voted for in the interest of McKinley for President, and Hobart for VicePresident. In the case of the Democratic and Free-Silver parties the electors were the same and were voted for in the interest of Bryan for President, and Sewall for Vice-President. The People's party electors were in the interest of Bryan for President, but of Watson for VicePresident, and were not the same as the Democratic electors. Tuesday, November 6, 1900: Tuesday, November 6, 1860: Alton Brooks Parker, Independence, 2,568 Abraham Lincoln, R., J. C. Breckenridge, D., 178,871 John Bell, Const. Union, William H. Taft, R., 12,776 745,779 Tuesday, November 5, 1872: William H. Taft, R., 273,360 Ulysses S. Grant, R., Horace Greeley, Lib. D., 212,041 Eugene V. Debs, Soc., 83,614 James Black, Temperance, 1,632 Arthur E. Reimer, Indus., 706 Theodore Roosevelt, 444,894 Tuesday, November 7, 1876: Roosevelt Progressive, 33,065 Samuel J. Tilden, D., 366,158 Washington, 350,865 Peter Cooper, Greenback, Tuesday, November 2, 1880: James A. Garfield, R., 444,713 Allan J. Benson, Soc., 407,502 J. Frank Hanly, Proh., 20,643 Arthur E. Reimer, Indus., 1,940 7,187 1,319 83 42,638 28,525 419 James B. Weaver, Greenback, Neal Dow, Proh., Tuesday, November 2, 1920: Eugene V. Debs, Soc.. 70,571 John P. St. John, Proh., 15,283 Tuesday, November 6, 1888: Benjamin Harrison, R., Grover Cleveland, D., 446,633 Tuesday, November 4, 1924: Clinton B. Fisk, Proh., Alson J. Streeter, U. Lab., 20,947 Calvin Coolidge, R., 1,401,481 James L. Curtis, American, Tuesday, November 8, 1892: Grover Cleveland, D., Simon Wing, Soc. Lab., 3,873 John W. Davis, D., 409,192 24 Robert M. La Follette, Soc., Herman P. Faris, Proh.. 93,441 9,779 452,264 Gilbert O. Nations, Amer., 516,011 William J. Wallace, Com. Land, 8,714 Frank T. Johns, Indus., 13,035 296 634 |
