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Election in Pennsylvania
1796 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania
County Results
Adams
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
Jefferson
50–60%
60–70%
70–80%
80–90%
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 [ edit ]
County results [ edit ]
County[2]
John Adams
Federalist
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic-Republican
Total votes cast
%
#
%
#
Allegheny
16.42%
77
83.58%
392
469
Bedford
5.00%
10
95.00%
190
200
Berks
44.79%
576
55.21%
710
1,286
Bucks
73.60%
1,001
26.40%
359
1,360
Chester
81.29%
530
18.71%
122
652
Cumberland
21.81%
238
78.19%
853
1,091
Dauphin
65.12%
435
34.88%
233
668
Delaware
71.07%
312
28.93%
127
439
Fayette
14.14%
67
85.86%
407
474
Franklin
41.69%
246
58.31%
344
590
Greene
17.32%
44
82.68%
210
254
Huntingdon
93.43%
313
6.57%
22
335
Lancaster
76.90%
2,061
23.10%
619
2,680
Luzerne
98.07%
407
1.93%
8
415
Mifflin
5.44%
27
94.56%
469
496
Montgomery
61.57%
532
38.43%
332
864
Northampton
44.65%
371
55.35%
460
831
Northumberland & Lycoming
15.77%
149
84.23%
796
945
Philadelphia (City)
38.63%
1,091
61.37%
1,733
2,824
Philadelphia (County)
17.88%
399
82.12%
1,832
2,231
Somerset
64.86%
48
35.14%
26
74
Washington
1.64%
21
98.36%
1,259
1,280
Westmoreland
5.63%
52
94.37%
872
924
York
95.81%
3,222
4.19%
141
3,363
Source: [2]
See also [ edit ]
^ Greene County's returns are included in the grand totals in this article, as well as the county results table.
References [ edit ]
Candidates General articles Local results Other 1796 elections