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1800 Presidential Election Interactive Map
70 electoral votes to win
Burr (D-R)
Pinckney (F)
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1800 Actual Election Results
| Candidate | Party | Electoral Votes | ||
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| ✓ | 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
