Presidential election in the United States 1804

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5th presidential election
November 2 - December 5, 1804
			Democratic Republican Party
			Thomas Jefferson / George Clinton
			electors					162
			be right				104.110
									72.8%
			Federalist Party
			Charles C. Pinckney / Rufus King
			electors					14th
			be right				38,919
									27.2%
Election results by state
15 states   Jefferson / Clinton						2 states   Pinckney / King
President of the United States
Before the election Thomas Jefferson Dem.-Rep. Political party						Elected Thomas Jefferson Dem.-Rep. Political party

The fifth election of the President of the United States took place in 1804. Thomas Jefferson was confirmed in office and clearly won ahead of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney .

Candidates

Presidential candidates

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  Thomas Jefferson

• 

  Charles C. Pinckney

• Thomas Jefferson , Acting President of the United States, of Virginia
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , former envoy to France, from South Carolina

Vice Presidential Candidate

• 

  George Clinton

• 

  John Breckinridge

• 

  Gideon Granger

• 

  John Langdon

• 

  Levi Lincoln

• 

  William Maclay

• 

  Rufus King

• George Clinton , Governor of New York
• John Breckinridge , Senator for Kentucky
• Gideon Granger , United States Postmaster General , of Connecticut
• John Langdon , former Senator for New Hampshire
• Levi Lincoln , United States Attorney General , of Massachusetts
• William Maclay , former Senator for Pennsylvania
• Rufus King , former Senator for New York

Thomas Jefferson from the Democratic Republican Party entered the race with George Clinton as running mate. Other candidates for the Vice-Presidency of the Democratic Republican Party were John Breckinridge, Gideon Granger, John Langdon, Levi Lincoln and William Maclay. However, they had no realistic chance of winning, as George Clinton was chosen as the preferred candidate of the Democratic Republicans with 67 of 108 votes before the vice presidential election. Federalist Pinckney chose Rufus King as his running mate. Unlike Clinton, he had no competitors.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Thomas Jefferson	Democrats-Republicans	104.110	72.8%	162
Charles C. Pinckney	federalist	38,919	27.2%	14th
total		143.029	100%	176

Thomas Jefferson won the election with 72.8%, well ahead of the federalist Pinckney, whose party slowly "began to crumble". To date, the lead of 45.6 percentage points is the largest that a candidate has ever achieved against a candidate from another major party in a US presidential election. Jefferson was even able to win most of the New England states , although a more federalist attitude was known from there.

Vice President

For the first time in history, the runner-up in the presidential election did not become vice-president. Instead, the presidential candidate could nominate his candidate for the vice presidency himself. According to the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the electors now had to vote separately for the President and Vice-President. Even then, all electors voted for both the candidate for the presidency and the associated running mate , so that the simultaneous election for the vice-presidency was basically just a formality.

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 41-48 (= Chapter 7: Thomas Jefferson's Reelection. ).

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