Presidential election in the United States 1808

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6. Presidential election
November 4 - December 7, 1808
			Democratic Republican Party
			James Madison / George Clinton
			electors					122
			be right				124.732
									64.7%
			Federalist Party
			Charles C. Pinckney / Rufus King
			electors					47
			be right				62,431
									32.4%
Election results by state
12 states   Madison / Clinton						5 states   Pinckney / King
President of the United States
Before the election Thomas Jefferson Dem.-Rep. Political party						Elected James Madison Dem.-Rep. Political party

The sixth election of the President of the United States took place in 1808. James Madison beat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney by a huge margin to become the 4th President of the United States.

Candidates

The Democratic Republican Party nominated former Secretary of State James Madison, supported by Thomas Jefferson , and incumbent Vice President George Clinton as its running mate. George Clinton actually ran for president. Even James Monroe had applied unsuccessfully and withdrew his candidacy, nominated by a group of Democratic Republican of Virginia, not back, but caused no campaign against Madison.

For the federalists , Charles Pinckney went into the race again with Rufus King .

Six electors from New York voted faithless , that is, against their voting mandate . They refused to vote Madison and voted for George Clinton. Madison won anyway, so the process was ignored.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
James Madison	Democratic Republican Party	124.732	64.7%	122
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	Federalist Party	62,431	32.4%	47
George Clinton	Democratic Republican Party	-	-	6th
James Monroe	Democratic Republican Party	4,848	2.5%	0
Unrestricted electors		680	0.4%	0
total		187.163	100%	175

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. 49-56 (= Chapter 8: James Madison's Initial Election. ).

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