United States presidential election, 1804
The fifth election of the President of the United States took place in 1804. Thomas Jefferson was confirmed in office and won clearly ahead of Charles Pinckney.
Candidates
Presidential candidates
Charles C. Pinckney
- Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, from Virginia
- Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a former ambassador to France, from South Carolina
Vice - presidential candidates
John Breckinridge
John Langdon
Levi Lincoln
William Maclay
- George Clinton, Governor of New York
- John Breckinridge, Senator for Kentucky
- Gideon Granger, United States Postmaster General from Connecticut
- John Langdon, former Senator for New Hampshire
- Levi Lincoln, Attorney General of the United States, from Massachusetts
- William Maclay, former Senator for Pennsylvania
- Rufus King, former Senator for New York
Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party went with George Clinton as his running mate in the race. Other candidates for the vice - presidency of the Democratic-Republican party were John Breckinridge, Gideon Granger, John Langdon, Levi Lincoln and William Maclay. This, however, had no realistic chance of winning, since even before the vice- presidential election with 67 of 108 votes George Clinton was determined the favored candidate of the Democratic - Republicans. The Federalist Rufus King Pinckney chose as his running mate. This was unlike Clinton no competitors.
Result
Thomas Jefferson won the election with 72, 8% well before the Federalists Pinckney, whose party slowly " to crumble " began. To date, the projection of 45.6 percentage points is the largest ever could reach the one candidate against the candidate of another large party in a U.S. presidential election. Jefferson was able to win even the most states of New England, although had just returned from there a more federalist attitude known.
Vice-president
For the first time in history was not the Second Vice-President of the presidential election. Instead, the presidential candidate was able to nominate its candidate for the vice-presidency itself. After the 12th Amendment to the Constitution, the electors now had to separate for the President and the Vice - President vote. In this case, even then all voted electors both for the candidate of presidency and for the associated running mate so that the simultaneous selection for vice-presidency was basically just a formality.