Elections of President and Vice-President of the United States. GEORGE WASHINGTON was unanimously chosen first President, and was inaugurated April 30, 1789. John Adams was chosen first Vice-President. *FIRST TERM, 1789-Electors 69. NINTH TERM, 1821-Electors 232. Votes. Votes. 231 9 Dan. D. Tompkins for V. President 218 TENTH TERM, 1825-Electors 261. J. Rutledge J. C. Calhoun for Vice President 182 *SECOND TERM, 1793-Electors 135. George Washington 132 John Adams 77 ELEVENTH TERM, 1829-Electors 261. Aaron Burr J. Q. Adams *THIRD TERM, 1797-Electors 138. John Adams Thomas Jefferson 68 TWELFTH TERM, 1833-Electors 288. Aaron Burr 30 *FOURTH TERM,† 1801-Electors 138. Thomas Jefferson 73 William Wirt do. Aaron Burr 73 M. Van Buren for Vice-President 189 John Adams 64 John Sergeant Thomas Pinckney 63 William Wilkins FIFTH TERM, 1805-Electors 176. Henry Lee do. Amos Ellmaker do. This election was according to the old system, in which the highest number of votes made the President, and the next highest the Vice-President. In this case the election went to the House of Representatives, and on the 36th ballot Mr. Jefferson was chosen President by the votes of New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland. Aaron Burr was Chosen Vice-President. J. Q. Adams elected by the House of Representatives. Elected by the Senate. Extract from a Law respecting Elections. Passed April 5, 1842. TITLE I.-Of the qualifications, disabilities and priviliges of Electors. § 1. Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been an inhabitant of this state one year next preceding any election, and for the last six months a resident of the county where he may offer his vote, is entitled to vote in the town or ward where he actually resides, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are, or hereafter may be, elective by the people. § 2. No man of color shall vote at any such election, unless he shall have been for three years a citizen of this state; and for one year next preceding the election at which he shall offer his vote, shall have been seized and been possessed of a freehold estate of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars, over all debts and encumbrances charged thereon; and shall have been actually rated and paid a tax thereon. § 3. No person who shall have been convicted of an infamous crime, deemed by the laws of this state a felony, at any time previous to an election, shall be permitted to vote thereat; unless he shall have been pardoned before or after his term of imprisonment has expired, and restored by pardon to all the rights of a citizen. § 4. Whenever an election shall be held in any city or town, pursuant to this chapter, no declaration by which a suit shall be commenced, or any civil process, or proceeding in the nature of civil process, shall be served on any elector entitled to vote in such city or town, on the day on which such election shall be held. § 5. No court shall be opened, or transact any business, in any city or town on the day such election shall be held therein, unless it be for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury, or the naturalization of foreigners. TITLE II.-Of general and special elections; the time and purpose of holding them; and the persons by whom held. § 1. General elections are such as are held at the same time in every county, for the election of all, or some of the following officers, namely, Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, senators, members of assembly, sheriffs, clerks of counties, coronors, representatives in congress, and electors of president and vice-president. § 2. The register and clerk of the city and county of New-York, shall also be chosen at a general election. § 3. Special elections are such as are held only in a particular district or county, at a time when no general election is held, for the choice of one or more of the officers proper to be chosen at a general election. § 4. General elections shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November in every year; special elections at the times and places of which legal notice shall have been given; but no special election shall be held within forty days previously to a general election. § 5. General and special elections shall be held for one day only. § 6. Special elections shall be held in the following cases: When an officer other than a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor and elector of president and vice-president, proper to be chosen at a general election, shall not have been chosen by reason of two or more candidates having received an equal number of votes for the same office. 2. When the right of office of a person elected to the office of a representative in congress, senator, member of the assembly, sheriff, or clerk of any county, or sheriff, clerk, or register of the city and county of New-York, shall cease before commencement of the term of service for which such officer shall have been elected. 3. When a vacancy occurs in the office of any member of assembly after the last day of December in any year, and before the first day of April following, if such vacancy shall deprive a county of its entire representation. 4. When in case of an extra session of the legislature, any county shall by a vacancy in the office of member of assembly, occurring between the first day of April, and ten days before the time appointed for such extra session, be deprived of its entire representation. § 7. When a special election shall not have taken place as required by law, the vacancy which ought to have been supplied by such election shall be supplied at the next general election. 8. All vacancies in the office of representative in congress, senator, sheriff and clerk of any county, or sheriff, clerk or register of the city and county of New-York, shall be supplied at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof; but when the term of service of any such officer will expire at the end of the year during which the vacancy in his office shall occur, no person shall be chosen to supply such vacancy; but the usual election shall be held for a new officer to hold during the constitutional term. § 9. If a vacancy proper to be supplied at a general election, shall not have been supplied at the general election next succeeding the happening thereof, a special election to supply such vacancy shall then be held. § 10. Special elections in the first case provided for in the sixth section of this Title, shall be ordered by the board of canvassers having the power to determine on the election of the officer omitted to be chosen; and in all other cases, such elections shall be ordered by the Governor, who shall issue his proclamation therefor. § 11. Such proclamation shall specify the county or district in which such special election is to be held; the cause of such election; the name of the officer in whose office the vacancy has occurred; the time when his term of office will expire; and the day on which such election is to be held, which shall not be less than twenty nor more than forty days from the date of the proclamation. § 12. The elections in the several cities and towns shall be by election districts. TITLE III.-ARTICLE THIRD.-Of elections in cities and toons. §8. The several cities of this state shall be divided by the common council of the said cities respectively, into convenient election districts for the holding of all general and special elections, and all elections of the officers of such cities who are elective by the people. § 9. Every ward in the city containing not more than five hundred voters, shall be an election district; every ward in the city containing more than five hundred voters and not more than eight hundred voters, may, on or before the first Monday of October next, or in any year thereafter, be divided by the common council of such city, if they shall deem expedient, into two districts, to contain, as near as may be, an equal number of voters; and every ward of a city containing more than eight hundred voters, shall, on or before the first Monday of October next, and as often annually thereafter as may be necessary or expedient, be divided by the common council of such city into two or more districts, in such manner as shall be entire within one ward, and shall contain, as near as may be, an equal number of voters; and no district shall contain more than eight hundred voters. 15. The supervisor, assessors, and town clerk of each town, shall meet at the town clerk's office in such town on the first Tuesday in September next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and form themselves into a board. And they shall, in all cases where any town shall contain more than five hundred electors, divide the same into a convenient number of election districts, so that each district shall be in a compact form within their town, and shall contain not more than five hundred electors, as far as the number can be ascertained. But where any town shall contain less than five hundred electors, the board may, in their discretion, divide the same into districts. |