POPULAR VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR PRESIDENT FROM 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. 1789-1920. 5,930 (The majority of the returns given in the following table have been compiled from the 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 respective elections for which the returns are given. 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: Legislature, after & 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 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 the electoral college meeting of 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. 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 we have been unable to find. 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 3,479 1,097 This is the only presidential election Friday, November 4, 1796: Thomas Jefferson, Republican, John Adams, Federalist, 1800: received ELECTION STATISTICS. vote cast for each set of electors. Van Buren Jacob M. Gemmil, a votes, elector, 143,784 whilst Joseph Ritner, a Harrison elector, received 143,990, making the difference between the highest Van Buren elector and the lowest Harrison elector but 206. Friday, November 1, 1844: Grover Cleveland, D., Tuesday, November 8, 1892: Benjamin Harrison, R., 446,633 Grover Cleveland, D., 452,264 516,011 James B. Weaver, People's, 8,714 John Bidwell, Pro., 25,123 James K. Polk, D., 167,447 Simon Wing, Soc. Lab., 898 Henry Clay, Whig, 161,125 James G. Birney, Liberty, 3,100 Tuesday, November 3, 1896: Tuesday, November 7, 1848: William McKinley, 728,300 Zachary Taylor, Whig, 726,998 Lewis Cass, D., 171,976 McKinley, Citizen, 1,302 Martin Van Buren, Free Soil, 11,263 William J. Bryan, 427,125 Tuesday, November 2, 1852: Democrat, 422,054 Franklin Pierce, D., 5,071 Winfield Scott, Whig, 179,104 Joshua Levering, Pro., 19,274 John P. Hale, Free Soil D., 8,495 William J. Bryan, People's, 6,103 John Broom, Native American, 1,678 Charles H. Matchett, Soc., Lab., Charles E. Bentley, National, John M. Palmer, Jeffersonian, 1,683 870 11,000 Tuesday, November 4, 1856: Millard Fillmore, American, S Millard Fillmore, American, (straight ticket), 1st, Note: In 1856 Pennsylvania was entitled to twenty-seven presidential electors. The three principal sets of electors voted for were: The Democratic, in the interest of James Buchanan. 2d, The Union ticket, in the interest of John C. Fremont, Republican, and Millard There were Fillmore, American. twenty-six electors on this ticket, the twenty-seventh name voted for being either that of John C. Fremont Millard Fillmore. The total vote cast for the twenty-six Union Electors was 203,534. the vote for the twenty-seventh 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. 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 and of McKinley for President, In the Hobart for Vice President. case of the Democratic and Freewere Silver parties the electors 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: J. C. Breckenridge, D., 178,871 Alton Brooks Parker, Independence, 2,568 John Bell, Const. Union, 12,776 Stephen A. Douglass, Ind. D., 16,765 Tuesday, November 3, 1908: Tuesday, November 8, 1864: William H. Taft, R., 745,779 Abraham Lincoln, R., 296,391 William J. Bryan, D., 448,782 George B. McClellan, D., 276,316 Eugene W. Chafin, Pro., 36,694 Eugene V. Debs, Soc., 33,914 Tuesday, November 3, 1868: Thomas L. Hisgen, Independence, 1,057 Ulysses S. Grant, R., 342,280 August Gilhaus, Soc. Lab., 1,224 Horatio Seymour, D., 313,382 Tuesday, November 5, 1912: Tuesday, November 5, 1872: Woodrow Wilson, D., 395,637 Ulysses S. Grant, R., 349,589 William H. Taft, R., 273,360 Horace Greeley, Lib. D., 212,041 Eugene W. Chafin, Pro., 19,525 James Black, Temperance, 1,632 Eugene V. Debs, Soc., Tuesday, November 7, 1876: Arthur E. Reimer, Indus., 83,614 706 R. B. Hayes, R., 884,142 Theodore Roosevelt, 444,894 Samuel J. Tilden, D., 366,158 Bull Moose, 60,964 Peter Cooper, Greenback, 7,187 Roosevelt Progressive, 33,065 Green Clay Smith, Pro., 1,319 Washington, 350,865 Anti-Mason, Tuesday, November 2, 1880: Woodrow Wilson, D., 521,784 James A. Garfield, R., 444,713 Charles E. Hughes, R., 703,823 Winfield S. Hancock, D., 407.502 James B. Weaver, Greenback, Allan J. Benson, Soc., 42,638 Neal Dow, Pro., 20,643 J. Frank Hanly, Pro., 28,525 1,940 Arthur E. Reimer, Indus., 419 Anti-Mason, 44 Tuesday, November 4, 1884: Tuesday, November 2, 1920: Grover Cleveland, D., Warren G. Harding, R., 1,218,216 392,785 James G. Blaine, R., James M. Cox, D., 503,843 478,804 Benjamin F. Butler. Greenback, Eugene V. Debs, Soc., 70,571 16,992 John P. St. John, Pro., Aaron S. Watkins, Pro., 42,696 15,283 James M. Cox, Indus., 753 Tuesday, November 6, 1888: Parley P. Christensen, Labor, 15,704 Benjamin Harrison, R., 526,091 Robert C. Macauley, Single Tax, 806 THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA-1789-1920. ... FIFTH TERM-March 4, 1805 to March 4, 1809.-Number of electors, 20. President-Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, Vice-President,-George Clinton, New York, Previous to this election two persons were voted for, the highest being President, the next Vice-President, the Constitution was amended as it now stands. Thomas Jefferson re-elected President, and George Clinton elected Vice-President. SIXTH TERM-March 4, 1809, to March 4, 1813.-Number of electors, 20. President James Madison, Virginia, Vice-President-George Clinton, New York, James Madison elected President, George Clinton re-elected Vice-President. and 13 8877 Vice-President-John Carolina, Neither candidate for the presidency having received a majority of the electoral votes, it devolved upon the House of Representatives to choose from the three highest on list voted for, who were Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, and William H. Crawford, Georgia. John Quincy Adams was chosen. John Quincy Adams elected President, and John C. Calhoun Vice-President. ELEVENTH TERM-March 4, 1829, to March 4, 1833.-Number of electors, 28. President-Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, Vice-President-John C. Calhoun, South Carolina, Andrew Jackson elected President, and John C. Calhoun re-elected Vice-President. TWELFTH TERM-March 4, 1833, to March 4, 1837.-Number of electors, 30. President-Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, Vice-President-William vania, Wilkins, Pennsyl Andrew Jackson re-elected President, and Martin Van Buren, New York, elected VicePresident. THIRTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1837, to March 4, 1841.-Number of electors, 30. President-Martin Van Buren, New York, Vice-President-Richard M. Johnson, Ken 28 28 30 30 30 20 20 SIXTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1849, to March 4, 1853.-Number of electors, 26. President-Zachary Taylor, Louisiana, Vice-President-Millard Fillmore, New 26 Zachary Taylor elected President, and Millard Fillmore Vice-President. SEVENTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1853, to March 4, 1857.-Number of electors, 27. President-Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire, Vice-President-William R. King, Alabama, Franklin Pierce elected President, William R. King Vice-President. 27 27 and EIGHTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861.-Number of electors, 27. 25 President James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, Vice-President-John C. Breckenridge, Ken 24 tucky, .... James Buchanan elected President, and John C. Breckenridge Vice-President. NINETEENTH TERM-March 4, 1861, to March 4, 1865.-Number of electors, 27. President-Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, 24 Vice-President-Hannibal Hamlin, Maine, Abraham Lincoln elected President, and Hannibal Hamlin Vice-President. TWENTIETH TERM-March 4, 1865, to March 4, 1869.-Number of electors, 26. President-Abraham Lincoln, Illinois, Vice-President-Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, Abraham Lincoln re-elected President, and Andrew Johnson elected Vice-President. 28 but one died previous to the meeting of the electoral college, making the vote 24 as given. TWENTY-FIFTH TERM-March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889.-Number of electors, 30. President James G. Blaine, Maine, Vice-President-John A. Logan, Illinois, Grover Cleveland elected President, and Thomas A. Hendricks Vice-President. TWENTY-SIXTH TERM-March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893.-Number of electors, 30. President-Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, Vice-President-Levi P. Morton, New York, Benjamin Harrison elected President, and Levi P. Morton Vice-President. TWENTY-SEVENTH TERM-March 1893, to March 4, 1897.-Number of electors, 32. President-Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 30 30 30 30 President-William McKinley, Ohio, Jersey, William McKinley elected President, and Garret A. Hobart Vice-President. TWENTY-NINTH TERM-March 4, 1901, to March 4, 1905.-Number of electors, 32. President-William McKinley, Ohio, Vice-President-Theodore Roosevelt, York, 32 32 New William McKinley elected President, and Theodore Roosevelt Vice-President. THIRTIETH TERM-March 4, 1905, to March 4, 1909.-Number of electors, 34. President Theodore Roosevelt, New York, Vice-President-Charles W. Fairbanks, Indiana, Theodore Roosevelt elected President, and Charles W. Fairbanks Vice-President. THIRTY-FIRST TERM-March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1913.-Number of electors, 34. President-William H. Taft, Ohio, Vice-President-James York, 22 23 34 34 34 S. Sherman, New 34 |