TABLE OF CONTENTS. Alabama Arkansas.. Delaware Georgia.. Illinois. Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland ELECTION RETURNS. President, 1836; Congress, 1839; President, 1840. Pres't, '36; Pres't and Congress, '40.. Pies't, '36; Congress, '38; Pres't, 40. . Pres't and Congress, '40.. Pres't, '36; Gov'r, '38; Pres't, '40. .... Do. Gov'r, Lieut. Gov'r and Senators, '40. ..Pres't, '36; Gov'r, '38; Pres't, '40...... Tennessee..... Pres't, '36; Gov'r, '39; Pres't, '40........ Vermont...... Pres't, '36; Gov'r, '39; Pres't, '40.. OTHER ELECTIONS- -MAINLY CONGRESS, 1838, '9. .50 .52 New Hampshire .33 .33 New-Jersey ..40 41 New-York .35, 36, 38 .47, 48 North Carolina. 45, 46 ..59, 60 Ohio .... .51, 52 Indiana .57, 58 | Pennsylvania .39, 40 Kentucky Electoral Votes (aggregates) for President, &c. since 1788. Electoral Vote of the several States-1840. New-York City Elections, 1837, '38, '39, '40.. New-York State Aggregate Votes in 1832, '34, '36, '38 and '40. Popular Vote for President, (by States and Total,) 1836 and '40. XXVIIth Congress-General Summary. 6 32 37 .10 4 .31 5 31 ADVERTISEMENT. The following pages have been compiled with much labor and patient research, yet we do not hope they will be found entirely exempt from errors. To avoid them wholly is impossible, even with the most anxious vigilance. Very often it becomes necessary to rest upon data of uncertain authority, or decide between conflicting statements; and sometimes even the Returns purporting to be Official, and which were originally transcripts from the actual records, are marred by the change of a figure in publication, and reach us essentially imperfect. We have endeavored by comparison, correction and revision, to render these more nearly perfect than any hitherto published. The votes of a few Counties are missing from our tables for some of the Southern and Western States, by reason of the failure of the proper officers to return them. We believe that none which were correctly rendered at home are wanting here, while several missing from the Officials have been supplied. The vote by Counties of GEORGIA for President had not been published when we passed the proper place for recording it. It is inserted on page 3D. The vote we give for ARKANSAS is that published as Official by the Governor; but returns from two or three Counties are wanting, which, the Governor subsequently stated, reduced the majority for Van Buren to 1,386; but he gave (so far as we have seen) no details. Some readers have been perplexed by the circumstance that the vote for President and majority in some States are differently stated by different compilers; but the explanation is easy. The discrepancy is caused by the difference in the votes cast for different Electors on the same ticket. For instance, in Pennsylvania, at the late Election, Messrs. Ritner and Shulze, the Harrison Senatorial Electors, were scratched by a number of voters, and ran behind their colleagues. Some authorities have taken the highest candidate on each ticket, some the first named, and some have undertaken to average the whole number. We took a candidate from each who appeared to run clear and even, and gave the vote for him in each County and in the aggregate. The result is seen in its proper place. On an avèrage of the whole of each ticket, Harrison's majority would be a few votes less. New York, February, 1841. Statement of Voets cast in this State for Governor, at the several Elections of Chief Magistrate, since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. Year. Candidates. Votes. Majority. 1789-George Clinton.... . 6,391 Robert Yates..... .5,962 429 *Votes of Otsego and Tioga Counties rejected, which it is said would have reversed the majority. Votes of New-York for President. Clay and Wirt.... .154,896 William H. Harrison.... .138,543 President... Anited States Calendar--MARCH 4th, 1841. EXECUTIVE. WILLIAM H. HARRISON, Ohio... Vice President ..JOHN TYLER,. " [Cabinet not yet announced.] SUPREME COURT. 5 Salary. $25,000 Chief Justice.... .Roger B. Taney Baltimore, Md....... 1836 [All these but Joseph Story and Smith Thompson were nominated by Gen. Jackson.] * Favorable to the new Administration-15. The others opposed-11. Elections for 7th Congress yet to come. At present. [Har. 19 States; V. Buren 7 do. J. K. Polk, 1; L. W. Tazewell ..11 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 poli being President and the next Vice President. Under 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 becam eVice President t Mr. Ingersoll received only the Federal votes; Mr. Clinton those of New-York in addition. Gov. Wm. Piumer, of N. H., voted for J. Q Addams, who was not a candidate. In the House of Representatives, Adams received the vote of 13 States, Jackson of 7, Crawford of 4. South Carolina voted for Ex-Gov. Floyd of Va. ard H. Lee of Boston. Pennsylvania voted for Jackson, but eschewed Van Buren and cast her vote for Wilkins. Vermont voted for Wirt and Ellmaker, (Anti-Masonic.) ** Tennessee and Georgia voted for White and Tyler. Maryland for Harrison and Tyler ; South Carolina for Mangum and Tyler; Massachusetts for Webster and Granger. Virginia for Van Buren and Judge Smith of Alabama. Col. R. M. Jhnson having just half the votes for Vice President, the Senate proceeded to elect; whereupon Col. Johnson received 33 votes and Francis Granger 16. |