Election Of 1800 Popular Vote

In 1800 there were 16 states so to win you would have to get 9 states to vote for you.

Election of 1800 popular vote. 11 1801 when it was discovered that the election was a tie. Each elector could cast a vote for 2 different candidates. Adams had narrowly defeated jefferson in the 1796 elect.

In us presidential elections votes are cast by an electoral college whose electors are chosen today by citizens. The 1800 united states presidential election was the fourth quadrennial presidential election. The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of democratic republican leadership.

As both jefferson and burr received the same number of electoral votes the decision was referred to the house of representatives. Tally of electoral votes for the 1800 presidential election february 11 1801. In what is sometimes referred to as the revolution of 1800 vice president thomas jefferson of the democratic republican party defeated incumbent president john adams of the federalist party.

American presidential election 1800. However during the 1800 election these electors were chosen by state legislatures and not by citizens which allowed both parties to influence the process. Because each state could choose its own election day in 1800 voting lasted from april to october.

Pinckney against democratic republicans jefferson and burr. In 1800 democratic republicans only slightly outnumbered federalists in the state legislature but on a raw popular vote count the federalists were actually in the lead. It was held from october 31 to december 3 1800.

This election is cited as key in proving that the united states could survive the exchange of power between opposing parties when the democratic republicans took over after the federalists had been in charge. The presidential race was hotly contested between the federalist president john adams and the democratic republican candidate thomas jefferson. In april burr s successful mobilization of the vote in new york city succeeded in reversing the federalist majority in the state legislature to provide decisive support for the democratic republican ticket.