271 William J. Bryan, 6,292,423 Joshua Levering, 130,753 William J. Bryan, 240,657 Charles H. Matchett, 33,545 Charles E. Bentley, 13,955 133,542 7,219,524 John M. Palmer, William McKinley, William J. Bryan, John G. Woolley, Joseph F. Malloney, Wharton Barker, Eugene V. Debs, Seth H. Ellis, 6,358,007 207,429 33,425 50,109 95,897 5,696 James R. Greer, W. H. T. Wakefield 277 Adlai E. Stevenson, T. E. Watson, J. H. Southgate, S. B. Buchner, 292 Theodore Roosevelt 155 Adlai E. Stevenson, Henry B. Metcalf, Valentine Remmel, Ignatius Donnelly, Job Harriman, Samuel T. Nicholas, D. H. Martin, 336 C. W. Fairbanks, 140 Henry G. Davis, George W. Carroll, 277 145 22 271 176 292 155 140 Scattering, 1908 Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, Socialist, 5,301 Socialist Labor,-. People's, Donald L. Munro, iams, L. S. Coffin, 435 Thos. R. Marshall, 8 James S. Sherman, Aaron S. Watkins, Emil Seidel, W. Will 435 4,121,908 Woodrow Wilson, Charles E. Hughes, Allan J. Benson, 9,125,852 35,153 8,553,730 592,421 rick, 231,382 13,657 10,452 1920 Republican, Democratic, Warren G. Harding, 16,148,917 Socialist, Prohibition, James M. Cox, Eugene V. Debs, 9,148,577 915,569 Aaron S. Watkins, 189,355 Industrialist, 7,343 Socialist Labor, Geo. R. Kirkpat Scattering. 76,211 POPULAR VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR PRESIDENT FROM 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 a (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.) Legislature, after Wednesday, January 7, 1789: contest between the two houses as to the George Washington (seven counties method of electing the electors, missing), 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 meeting of 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. 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 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 in the State, four counties missing, of 3,479. William Todd, the first of the set of twelve electors, received a total in the State, four counties missing, of 1,097. 3,479 1,097 Friday, November 2, 1804: 22,311 1,429 Friday, November 4, 1796: Thomas Jefferson, Republican, John Adams, Federalist, 1800: 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), on 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 John C. Fremont, R., Union 230,686 203,534 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 twenty-seventh name voted for being either that of John C. Fremont or Millard Fillmore. The total vote cast for the twenty-six Union Electors was 203,534. Of 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. Tuesday, November 6, 1860: 5,071 19,274 6,103 1,683 870 .... 11,000 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 Vice President. In the case of the Democratic and FreeSilver 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: William McKinley, R., William J. Bryan, D., 712,665 424,232 Charles Hunter Corregan, Soc. Lab., 2,211 J. C. Breckenridge, D., 178,871 Tuesday, November 3, 1908: Tuesday, November 8, 1864: Abraham Lincoln, R., 448,782 Eugene W. Chafin, Pro., 36,694 Tuesday, November 3, 1868: Thomas L. Hisgen, Independence, 1,057 August Gilhaus, Soc. Lab., 1,224 Horatio Seymour, D., 313,382 Tuesday, November 5, 1912: Tuesday, November 5, 1872: Ulysses S. Grant, R., 349,589 Horace Greeley, Lib. D., 212,041 James Black, Temperance, 1,632 Eugene V. Debs, Soc., 83,614 Tuesday, November 7, 1876: Arthur E. Reimer, Indus.,. 706 R. B. Hayes, R., 884,142 Theodore Roosevelt, 444,894 Samuel J. Tilden, D., Peter Cooper, Greenback, Green Clay Smith, Pro., Anti-Mason, 83 Tuesday, November 2, 1880: James A. Garfield, R., 444,713 Winfield S. Hancock, D., Charles E. Hughes, R., 703,823 407,502 James B. Weaver, Greenback, Neal Dow, Pro., Anti-Mason, 20,643 J. Frank Hanly, Pro., 1,940 Arthur E. Reimer, Indus., 28,525 419 44 Tuesday, November 4, 1884: Tuesday, November 2, 1920: Grover Cleveland, D., James G. Blaine, R., James M. Cox, D., 503,843 478,804 Benjamin F. Butler, Greenback, 16,992 John P. St. John, Pro., 15,283 Tuesday, November 6, 1888: Parley P. Christensen, Labor, 15,704 Robert C. Macauley, Single Tax, 806 THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF PENNSYLVANIA-1789-1920. Vice-President-John Carolina, C. Calhoun, South 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, 28 28 28 30 30 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 tucky, Martin Van Buren elected President, and Richard M. Johnson Vice-President. FOURTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1841, to March 4, 1845.-Number of electors, 30. President-William H. Harrison, Ohio, Vice-President-John Tyler, Virginia, William H. Harrison elected President, and John Tyler Vice-President. FIFTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1845, to March 4, 1849.-Number of electors, 26. President James K. Polk, Tennessee, Vice-President-George M. Dallas, Pennsyl vania, James K. Polk elected President, and George M. Dallas Vice-President. SIXTEENTH TERM-March 4, 1849, to March 4, 1853.-Number of electors, 26. President-Zachary Taylor, Louisiana, Vice-President-Millard Fillmore, New York, 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. 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, 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 eleeted Vice-President. James A. Garfield elected President, and Chester A. Arthur Vice-President. 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. Roosevelt, 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 S. Sherman, New York, William H. Taft elected President, and James S. Sherman Vice-President. THIRTY-SECOND TERM-March 4, 1913, to March 4, 1917.-Number of electors, 38. 32 222 223 34 34 34 34 President-Theodore Roosevelt, New York, 38 Vice-President-Hiram W. Johnson, Cali 30 30 fornia, 30 30 22 32 Woodrow Wilson elected President, Thomas R. Marshall Vice-President, 38 and 38 Warren G. Harding elected President, and Calvin Coolidge Vice-President. TWENTY-EIGHTH TERM-March 1897, to March 4, 1901.-Number of electors, 32. |