Presidential election in the United States 1812

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7th presidential election
October 30 - December 2, 1812
			Democratic Republican Party
			James Madison / Elbridge Gerry
			electors					128
			be right				140.431
									50.4%
			Democratic-Republican Party supported by the Federalist Party
			DeWitt Clinton / Jared Ingersoll
			electors					89
			be right				132,781
									47.6%
Election results by state
11 states   Madison / Gerry						7 states   Clinton / Ingersoll
President of the United States
Before the election James Madison Dem.-Rep. Political party						Elected James Madison Dem.-Rep. Political party

The 7th presidential election in the United States took place in 1812. Acting President James Madison was confirmed and won against DeWitt Clinton , the Federalist candidate. The election was influenced by the British-American War that broke out in June 1812 .

Candidates

For the Democratic Republican Party , James Madison joined Elbridge Gerry . The Federalists did not nominate a candidate and instead supported Democratic Republican DeWitt Clinton (nephew of George Clinton ) with Jared Ingersoll as a running mate, who spoke out against the upcoming British-American War and against James Madison. Nonetheless, the federalist Rufus King , who had not been able to get the party to put up its own candidate at the party congress, ran for election in order to get at least one real federalist into the election.

Result

Presidential election

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
James Madison	Democratic Republican Party	140.431	50.4%	128
DeWitt Clinton	Democratic Republican Party	132,781	47.6%	89
Rufus King	federalist	5,574	2.0%	0
total		278,786	100%	217

Vice presidential election

candidate	electors
Elbridge Gerry	131
Jared Ingersoll	86

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. 57-64 (= Chapter 9: James Madison's Reelection. ).

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