1796 President of the United States, Electoral College
- Office:
- President of the United States (Federal)
- Title:
- President of the United States
- Jurisdiction:
- Federal
- Label:
- 1796 President of the United States, Electoral College
- Date:
- 1796
- State:
- Type:
- Legislative
- Iteration:
- First Ballot
- Office/Role:
- President of the United States/President of the United States
- Candidates:
- John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Pinckney, Aaron Burr, Samuel Adams, Oliver Ellsworth, George Clinton, John Jay, James Iredell, John Henry, Samuel Johnston, George Washington, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
| Candidates: | John Adams[1] | Thomas Jefferson[2] | Thomas Pinckney | Aaron Burr | Samuel Adams | Oliver Ellsworth | George Clinton | John Jay | James Iredell | John Henry | Samuel Johnston | George Washington | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation: | Federalist | Republican | Federalist | Republican | Federalist | Federalist | Federalist | ||||||
| Final Result: | 71 | 68 | 59 | 30 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Connecticut[3] | 9 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elizur Goodrich | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Hart | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elias Perkins | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jesse Root | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jonathan Sturges | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Heman Swift | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jeremiah Wadsworth | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oliver Wolcott | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delaware | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richard Bassett | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Issac Cooper | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thomas Robinson | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Georgia | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Charles Abercrombie | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Barnett | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| James Jackson | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edward Telfair | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kentucky | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Coburn | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stephen Ormsby | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Issac Shelby | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caleb Wallace | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Maryland[4] | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| John Archer | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Francis Deakins | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Done | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gabriel Duvall | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Eccleston | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Gilpin | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Lynn | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| George Murdock | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Rousby Plater | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Roberts | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Massachusetts[5] | 16 | - | 13 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Joseph Allen | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ebenezer Bacon | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thomas Dawes | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elbridge Gerry | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Samuel Holten | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ebenezer Hunt | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Stephen Longfellow | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ebenezer Mattoon | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elisha May | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Samuel Phillips | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thomas Rice | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Howard H. Robbins | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| David Rosseter | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Sever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Increase Sumner | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nathaniel Wells | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Hampshire | 6 | - | - | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Benjamin Bellows | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Timothy Farrar | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Taylor Gilman | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oliver Peabody | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ebenezer Thompson | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Timothy Walker | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Jersey | 7 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Blackwood | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Colefax | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elisha Lawrence | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Neilson | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Caleb Newbold | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Aaron Ogden | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jonathan Rhea | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New York | 12 | - | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Cantine, Jr. | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Obijah Hammond | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Saint John Honeywood | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Johannes Miller | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lewis Morris | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Charles Newkirk | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Root | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Smith | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Abraham Ten Broeck | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richard Thorne | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Robert Van Rensselaer | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Abraham Van Vechten | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Carolina[6] | 1 | 11 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Evan Alexander | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Gray Blout | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| James Bradley | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anthony Brown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Edmunds | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Hamilton, of G. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Hamilton, of P. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sterling Harwell | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| James Martin | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Martin | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gabriel Ragsdale | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richard D. Spaight | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pennsylvania[7] | 1 | 14 | 2 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Boyd | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Brown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Robert Coleman | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| James Hanna | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Joseph Heister | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Irvine | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thomas MacKean | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Maclay | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Samuel Miles | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jacob Morgan | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Muhlenberg | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Piper | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Smilie | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Abraham Smith | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Whitehill | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rhode Island | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| George Champlin | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arthur Fenner | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Greene | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Samuel J. Potter | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Carolina | - | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Chesnut | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Mathews | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Andrew Pickens | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Edward Rutledge | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Rutledge, Jr. | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Arthur Simkins | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thomas Taylor | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Thomas | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tennessee | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Joseph Greer | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hugh Neilson | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Daniel Smith | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vermont | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Bridgman | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elijah Dewey | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oliver Gallup | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Elisha Sheldon | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Virginia[8] | 1 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 15 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| John Bowyer | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Daniel Carroll Brent | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Brown | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Robert Crockett | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Moses Hunter | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Peter Johnson | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Catesby Jones | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Madison | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| George Markham | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Mason | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wilson Cary Nicholas | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Nimmo | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Levin Powell | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Josiah Riddick | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| David Saunders | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Archibald Stuart | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| John Taylor | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Benjamin Temple | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| William Terry | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Robert Walker | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nathaniel Wilkinson | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Notes:
[1]Elected.
[2]Elected.
[3]Five electors from Connecticut did not cast their second votes. There is no known record of who these electors were.
[4]Records indicate seven electors pledged to John Adams and three pledged to Thomas Jefferson. It is unknown who the electors cast their second vote for.
[5]The second votes cast by the electors in Massachusetts were split among Thomas Pinkney, Oliver Ellsworth, and Samuel Johnston. No known record exists of which elector voted for whom.
[6]The vote in North Carolina was split among seven candidates. No known record exists of which elector voted for whom.
[7]The vote in Pennsylvania was split among four candidates. No known record exists of which elector voted for whom.
[8]The vote in Virginia was split among seven candidates. No known record exists of which elector voted for whom with their second electoral vote.
References:
United States' Telegraph Extra (Washington, DC). January 24, 1829.
National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/votes/1789_1821.html
These election records were released on 11 January 2012. Versions numbers are assigned by state. Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia are complete and are in Version 1.0. All other states are in a Beta version. For more information go to the about page.
