U.S. presidential election, 1808

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The U.S. presidential election of 1808 was the first of only two cases where a new President would be elected, but the Vice Presidency remained in the same hands.

In addition to his re-election, Vice President George Clinton, who had served under Thomas Jefferson, was also an unwilling candidate for President, garnering six electoral votes from a wing of the Democratic-Republican Party that disapproved of James Madison.

Contents

1 General election 1.1 Results 2 Electoral college selection 3 See also 4 Reference

General election

Results

Presidential Candidate	Party	Home State	Popular Vote(a)		Electoral Vote	Running Mate	Running Mate's Home State	Running Mate's Electoral Vote
			Count	Percentage
James Madison	Republican	Virginia	—	—	122	George Clinton	New York	113
						John Langdon	New Hampshire	9
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney	Federalist	South Carolina	—	—	47	Rufus King	New York	47
George Clinton	Republican	New York	—	—	6	James Madison	Virginia	3
						James Monroe	Virginia	3
Total			—	100%	175	Total		175
Needed to win					88	Needed to win		88

^(a) Only 10 of the 17 states chose electors by popular vote; hence, popular vote figures for this election are generally considered meaningless.

Electoral college selection

Method of choosing Electors	State(s)
each Elector appointed by state legislature	Connecticut Delaware Georgia Massachusetts New York South Carolina Vermont
each Elector chosen by voters statewide	New Hampshire New Jersey Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia
state is divided into electoral districts, with one Elector chosen per district by the voters of that district	Kentucky Maryland North Carolina Tennessee

See also

• History of the United States (1789-1849)

Reference

• "A Historical Analysis of the Electoral College (http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Hx/ElectoralCollege.html)." The Green Papers. Accessed on March 20, 2005.

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