1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
November 4 - December 7, 1796
 
Nominee Thomas Jefferson John Adams
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Home state Virginia Massachusetts
Electoral vote 14 1
Popular vote 12,516 12,229
Percentage 50.58% 49.42%
 
Nominee Aaron Burr Thomas Pinckney
Party Democratic-Republican Federalist
Home state New York South Carolina
Electoral vote 13 2
County Results
President before election

George Washington
Nonpartisan

 Elected President

John Adams
Federalist

The 1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place as part of the 1796 United States presidential election. Voters chose 15 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College,[1] who voted for President and Vice President.

Pennsylvania voted for the Democratic-Republican candidate, Thomas Jefferson, over the Federalist candidate, John Adams. Jefferson won Pennsylvania by a margin of 1.16%. Greene County's returns, which favored Jefferson, were not submitted in time to be included in the official vote totals.[note 1] As a result, the 2 highest vote-getting Adams electors received more votes than the 2 lowest vote-getting Jefferson electors and the electoral vote was split, with 14 of 15 electors casting their ballots for Jefferson.[2]

Results

1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania[2]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson 12,516 50.58% 14
Federalist John Adams 12,229 49.42% 1
Totals 24,745 100.0% 15

County results

County[2] John Adams

Federalist

 Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican

 Total votes cast
 % #  % #
Allegheny16.42%7783.58%392469
Bedford5.00%1095.00%190200
Berks44.79%57655.21%7101,286
Bucks73.60%1,00126.40%3591,360
Chester81.29%53018.71%122652
Cumberland21.81%23878.19%8531,091
Dauphin65.12%43534.88%233668
Delaware71.07%31228.93%127439
Fayette14.14%6785.86%407474
Franklin41.69%24658.31%344590
Greene17.32%4482.68%210254
Huntingdon93.43%3136.57%22335
Lancaster76.90%2,06123.10%6192,680
Luzerne98.07%4071.93%8415
Mifflin5.44%2794.56%469496
Montgomery61.57%53238.43%332864
Northampton44.65%37155.35%460831
Northumberland & Lycoming15.77%14984.23%796945
Philadelphia (City)38.63%1,09161.37%1,7332,824
Philadelphia (County)17.88%39982.12%1,8322,231
Somerset64.86%4835.14%2674
Washington1.64%2198.36%1,2591,280
Westmoreland5.63%5294.37%872924
York95.81%3,2224.19%1413,363
Source: [2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Greene County's returns are included in the grand totals in this article, as well as the county results table.

References

  1. ↑ "1796 ELECTION FOR THE THIRD TERM, 1797-1801". National Archives. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1796". Wilkes University. Retrieved August 4, 2012.


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