Presidential election in the United States 1820

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9. Presidential election
November 1 - December 6, 1820
			Democratic Republican Party
			James Monroe / Daniel D. Tompkins
			electors					231 (232 elected)
			be right				87,343
									80.6%
Election results by state
24 states   Monroe / Thompkins
President of the United States
Before the election of James Monroe Dem.-Rep. Political party						Elected James Monroe Dem.-Rep. Political party

The 9th election of the President of the United States took place in 1820. The incumbent President James Monroe won by superiority and received almost all votes in the Electoral College . Only William Plumer , an elector from New Hampshire , did not vote for Monroe, but for the incumbent Secretary of State John Quincy Adams , who had not stood as a candidate. Whether Plumer wanted to ensure that George Washington remained the only unanimous president elected ( 1789 and 1792 ), or he wanted his friend Adams, four years later was then elected president, already wanted to make known to a broader public, remained the subject of speculation.

Candidates

The Democratic Republican Party nominated the incumbent President James Monroe. Daniel D. Tompkins , who was also in office, was proposed as vice-president . The dwindling Federalist Party no longer put up candidates for the presidency; with Richard Stockton went to only one candidate for the office of Vice President of the Electoral College received eight votes.

The election took place without a previous serious election campaign.

Result

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
James Monroe	Dem.-Rep. Political party	87,343	80.6%	231
John Quincy Adams	-	-	-	1
Other	-	17,465	16.1%	0

background

The previous four years coincided with the beginning of the so-called feelgood era. International tensions were hardly measurable after the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the British-American War . The federal government consisted only of members of one party, since the federalists had collapsed as a national party and no new opposition had arisen to fill this place. The United States had also expanded in the previous four years. The Florida Territory had been bought by Spain and five new states had joined the union: Mississippi (1817), Illinois (1818), Alabama (1819), Missouri and Maine (1820).

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. 72-79 (= Chapter 11: James Monroe's Reelection. ).

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