(February 11, 2006). Source (Popular Vote): A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825 (a) Only 6 of the 15 states chose electors by any form of popular vote. (b) Pre-Twelfth Amendment electoral vote rules obscure the intentions of the voters (c) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions on suffrage via property requirements. === Popular vote by state === Six of the fifteen states chose electors by any form of popular vote.
Madison was at first a Federalist until he opposed the establishment of Hamilton's First Bank of the United States in 1791.
With some Democratic-Republican electors voting against their nominee George Clinton – voting instead for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr – Adams easily secured re-election. ==Results== At the time, there were 15 states in the United States: the 13 original states and the two recently admitted states of Vermont (March 1791) and Kentucky (June 1792).
The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election.
It was held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1792.
This election was the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors, as did the newly added states of Kentucky and Vermont. While it was also the only presidential election that was not held exactly four years after the previous election, most of the previous election was held four years prior. ==Candidates== In 1792, presidential elections were still conducted according to the original method established under the U.S.
He formed the Democratic-Republican Party along with Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson in 1792. The elections of 1792 were the first ones in the United States to be contested on anything resembling a partisan basis.
With some Democratic-Republican electors voting against their nominee George Clinton – voting instead for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr – Adams easily secured re-election. ==Results== At the time, there were 15 states in the United States: the 13 original states and the two recently admitted states of Vermont (March 1791) and Kentucky (June 1792).
The Twelfth Amendment would eventually replace this system, requiring electors to cast one vote for president and one vote for vice president, but this change did not take effect until 1804.
(February 11, 2006). Source (Popular Vote): A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825 (a) Only 6 of the 15 states chose electors by any form of popular vote. (b) Pre-Twelfth Amendment electoral vote rules obscure the intentions of the voters (c) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions on suffrage via property requirements. === Popular vote by state === Six of the fifteen states chose electors by any form of popular vote.
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