History of the Electoral History College

[Keith Broaders]

In the first Presidential election 69  Presidential Electors resenting10 of the states 13 states voted unanimously for George Washington, but only 28,009 of the nearly 4 million people of the United States voted for him.

The electors voted the man they believed was the best candidate.

The men who wrote the Constition believed that the people at large were ignorant and uninformed  and  that  a panel of well educated men should choose the President

In the Presidential Election of 1788-1789 only 6 states had popular elections.In 1828 the Democratic Party was born  all of the states except Delaware and South Caroltna conducted statewide popular elections. In 1834 the Whig Party was established  and in 1836 the electors stopped being chosen by the state legislatures or the people of the Congrssional Districts and began to be chosen by the political parties to represent the entire state rather than Congressional Districts.

13 states had popular elections in 1824 and 22 of the 24 states held popular elections.

273,749 popular votes in1824 and 1,148,018 popular votes in 1828.

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273,749  in 1824

13 states had popular elections in 1824

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		Andrew Jackson Democratic-Republican			John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican			Henry Clay Democratic-Republican			William Crawford Democratic-Republican			Other		State total		Citation
State	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	electoral votes	#	%	#
Alabama	5	9,461	69.35	5	2,422	17.75	0	96	0.70	0	1,663	12.19	0	no ballots		13,642	AL	[35]
Connecticut	8	no ballots		0	9,261	82.20	8	no ballots		0	1,978	17.56	0	27+	0.24	11,266	CT	[36]
Delaware	3	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		1	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		2	no popular vote		–	DE
Georgia	9	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		9	no popular vote		–	GA
Illinois	3	1,272	27.02	2	1,541	32.74	1	1,047	22.24	0	847	17.99	0	no ballots		4,707	IL	[37]
Indiana	5	7,444	46.94	5	3,093	19.50	0	5,321	33.55	0	no ballots		0	1	0.01	15,859	IN	[38]
Kentucky	14	6,658	27.76%	0	120	0.50%	0	17,207	71.73%	14	3	0.01%	0	no ballots		23,988	KY	[39]
Louisiana	5	no popular vote		3	no popular vote		2	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		–	LA
Maine	9	no ballots		0	9,412	75.33	9	no ballots		0	3,081	24.66	0	1+	0.01	12,494	ME	[40]
Maryland	11	14,473	44.22	7	14,191	43.36	3	695	2.12	0	3,371	10.30	1	no ballots		32,730	MD	[41]
Massachusetts	15	no ballots		0	37,891	84.53	15	no ballots		0	no ballots		0	6,933	15.47	44,824	MA	[42]
Mississippi	3	3,313	64.04	3	1,718	33.21	0	21	0.41	0	121	2.34	0	no ballots		5,173	MS	[43]
Missouri	3	1,166	33.96	0	191	5.56	0	2,042	59.48	3	34	0.99	0	no ballots		3,433	MO	[44]
New Hampshire	8	no ballots		0	10,203	75.70	8	no ballots		0	no ballots		0	3,275	24.30	13,478	NH	[45]
New Jersey	8	10,342	51.22	8	8,405	41.63	0	no ballots		0	1,232	6.10	0	211	1.05	20,190	NJ	[46]
New York	36	no popular vote		1	no popular vote		26	no popular vote		4	no popular vote		5	no popular vote		–	NY
North Carolina	15	20,418	56.64	15	no ballots		0	no ballots		0	15,629	43.36	0	1	0.003	36,048	NC	[47]
Ohio	16	18,411	36.63	0	12,686	25.24	0	19,165	38.13	16	no ballots		0	no ballots		50,262	OH	[48]
Pennsylvania	28	36,091	76.13	28	5,424	11.44	0	1,703	3.59	0	4,189	8.84	0	no ballots		47,407	PA	[49]
Rhode Island	4	no ballots		0	2,144	91.47	4	no ballots		0	200	8.53	0	no ballots		2,344	RI	[50]
South Carolina	11	no popular vote		11	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		–	SC
Tennessee	11	19,285	93.10	11	224	1.08	0	890	4.30	0	316	1.53	0	no ballots		20,715	TN	[51]
Vermont	7	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		7	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		0	no popular vote		–	VT
Virginia	24	2,975	19.35	0	3,514	22.24	0	419	2.73	0	8,558	55.68	24	no ballots		15,371	VA	[52]
TOTALS:	261	151,309	40.45	99	122,440	32.74	84	48,606	13.00	37	41,222	11.02	41	10,449	2.79	374,026	US
TO WIN:	131

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George Washington Federalist electors			George Washington Anti-Federalist electors			Margin		Not cast	Citation
State	Electoral votes	#	%	Electoral votes	#	%	Electoral votes	#	%
Connecticut	7	No popular vote		7	No popular vote		-	-		-	-
Delaware	3	522	100.00	3	No ballots		-	522	100.00	-	[16]
Georgia	5	No popular vote		5	No popular vote		-	-		-	-
Maryland	6 (8)	7,665	77.09	6	2,278	22.91	-	5,387	54.18	2	[17]
Massachusetts	10	4,477	97.14	10	132	2.86	-	4345	94.28	-	[18]
New Hampshire	5	1,759	100.00	5	No ballots		-	1,759	100.00	-	[19]
New Jersey	6	No popular vote		6	No popular vote		-	-		-	-
New York	0 (8)	Legislature did not choose electors on time						-		-	-
North Carolina	0 (7)	Had not yet ratified Constitution						-		-	-
Pennsylvania	10	6,711	90.90	10	672	9.10	-	6,039	81.80	-	[20]
Rhode Island	0 (3)	Had not yet ratified Constitution						-		-	-
South Carolina	7	No popular vote		7	No popular vote		-	-		-	-
Virginia	10 (12)	3,337	87.98	7	456	12.02	3	2,881	75.96	2	[21]
TOTALS:	69 (91)	24,471	87.37	69	3,538	12.63	0	19,459	64.78	4
TO WIN:	35 (46)