1800 Presidential Election Interactive Map
70 electoral votes to win
Split Votes
States shown here did not allocate all their available electoral votes to one candidate. The split can be edited in this table. The states are not interactive on the map unless the split is .
| D-R | F | Total | |||||||
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1800 Actual Election Results
| Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ✓ | Thomas Jefferson | Democratic-Republican | 73 | |
| Aaron Burr | Democratic-Republican | 73 | ||
| John Adams (I) | Federalist | 65 | ||
| Charles C. Pinckney | Federalist | 64 |
1800 Election Facts
- During this election, Electors had 2 votes each for President, and all but one voted for both candidates in their party. Therefore, the map shown is broken out by party, as opposed to candidate
- No candidate received a majority of electors, Jefferson elected by vote of House of Representatives
- Controversy over electoral tie vote (between Jefferson and Aaron Burr) led to passage of 12th Amendment
- One Elector in Rhode Island cast one of his votes for John Jay
- Maryland electors split their vote, with 5 each for the Federalist and D-R candidates
- North Carolina electors split their vote, with 8 votes for the D-R and 4 for the Federalist candidates
- Pennsylvania electors split their vote, with 8 votes for the D-R and 7 for the Federalist candidates
- Issues of the Day: Alien & Sedition Acts, XYZ Affair, Relations with France
- Federal Capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington, DC in 1800
