POLITICIAN'S REGISTER, A COMPILATION OF RETURNS OF VOTES CAST IN THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE UNION, MAINLY DURING THE YEARS 1836, 1838, & 1840, FOR President, Members of Congress, & State Officers, ARRANGED BY COUNTIES, ALPHABETICALLY. New-York: PUBLISHED BY H. GREELEY, 30 ANN-STREET. 1840. Reproduced by the AMERICAN, PHOTO - LITHOGRAPHIC Co (Osborne's Process) 1867. *At the four first Elections, no discrimination was made between votes for President and Vice President; each Elector voting for two candidates, and the highest on the poll being President and the next Vice President. tUnder the Constitution as it then stood, there was no choice for President; the votes for Jefferson and Burr, the Democratic candidates, being equal. The House, after a protracted and most exciting struggle, elected Mr. Jefferson President; whereupon Burr became Vice President. Mr. Ingersoll received only the Federal votes; Mr. Clinton those of New-York in addition. Gov. Wm. Plumer, of N. H., voted for J. Q. Adams, who was not a candidate. South Carolina voted for Ex-Gov. Floyd of Va. and H. Lee of Boston. Pennsylvania voted for Jackson, but eschewed Van Buren and cast her vote for Wilkins. Vermont voted for Wirt and Elmaker, (Anti-Masonic.) Tennossed and Georgia voted for White and Tyler, Maryland for Harrison and Tyler; South Carolina for Maugum and Tyler: Massachusetts for Webster and Granger. Virginia for Van Buren and Judge Smith of Alabama. Col. R. M. Johnson having just half the votes for Vice President, the Senate proceeded to elect; whereupon Col. Johnson roceived 33 votes and Francis Granger 16. ain the House of Representatives, Adams received the votes of 13 Statos, Jackson of 7, Crawford of 4. TO THE PUBLIC. The following pages have been prepared with all the attention to accuracy consistent with the imperfection of the materials attainable and the haste in which the work is necessarily compiled. It is not perfect, as will be found by the addition of several of the columns of County votes, which do not quite correspond with the official aggregates at the bottom; but we hazard little in the assertion that it is more correct than any similar work ever yet offered to the public. and sufficiently so for all practical purposes. There is an error of 20 votes in the First District of Louisiana, making the Whig majority by so much too large; but we cannot find the materials for its correction. There are some Counties deficient in the recent vote of Alabama. Illinois, and Missouri, which we cannot obtain. The vote even of NewHampshire is not just what it should be, though we have written to its capital expressly for the Official Returns. Still, we believe there is no material variance from the actual results, except in Virginia and Illinois, where so much room was left for the exercise of individual judgement in determining what vote to adopt as a test, that it would have been easy to make a considerable difference in the result. We bave endeavored to decide impartially, and to be guided, as far as possible, by general rules rather than to judge specially in each case what vote should be taken as the test. In short, we have done our best; and now we ask every friend who remarks an error in these pages to give us the means of correcting it in our next edition, which will be issued immediately after the October Elections. New-York, Sept, 15, 1840. P. S. Since the above was in type, we have received the complete Official Vote of New-Hampshire at the Elections of 1836, '38 and '40, and corrected our table accordingly, so that this Manual contains the first perfect returns from that State ever published. All the States but South Carolina choose their Electors by a popular vote. *We believe the legal designation in these States is the Friday fifth preceding the first Monday in October.' Whig. Total...... .4,040 3,635 2,710 Majority...King... 1,379 Tillinghast...405 Joseph L. Tillinghast............ .4,040 Thomas W. Dorr... 2,964 Van Buren...254 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION-1839. Van Buren. 3,625 .3,930 . Benjamin B. Thurston.. .3,573 Ellsworth's maj.........4,572 Do... .2,544 V. Buren's.542 .142 * Total...30,555 25,983 142..26,591 ..25,270 Scattering.. *This table gives the entire vote. The legal returns sum up as follows: |