US Election Results

1808 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results

1808 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Resultsus-map

The United States presidential election of 1808 was the sixth quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 4, to Wednesday, December 7, 1808.

The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. Madison was serving as United States Secretary of State under incumbent Thomas Jefferson, and Pinckney had been the unsuccessful Federalist candidate in the election of 1804.

Presidential candidate

Party

Home state

Popular vote

Electoral

Running mate

Count

Pct

vote

Vice-presidential candidate

Home state

Elect. vote

James Madison

Democratic-Republican

Virginia

1,24,732

64.70%

122

George Clinton

New York

113

John Langdon

New Hampshire

9

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Federalist

South Carolina

62,431

32.40%

47

Rufus King

New York

47

George Clinton

Democratic-Republican

New York

6

James Madison

Virginia

3

James Monroe

Virginia

3

James Monroe

Democratic-Republican

Virginia

4,848

2.50%

0

(none)

(n/a)

0

(unpledged electors)

(none)

(n/a)

680

0.40%

0

(n/a)

(n/a)

0

Total

1,92,691

100%

175

 

175

Needed to win

88

 

88