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The 1796 United States presidential election in Virginia took place as part of the 1796 United States presidential election.Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, [1] who voted for President and Vice President.
Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 4 to December 7, 1796, when electors throughout the United States cast their ballots. It was the first contested American presidential election, the first presidential election in which political parties played a dominant role, and the only presidential election in which a president and vice president were elected from ...
11 Virginia. 12 See also. 13 References. ... This is an incomplete list of presidential electors in the United States presidential election of 1796. Electoral college ...
The 1796 Virginia gubernatorial election was held on 30 November 1796 in order to elect the Governor of Virginia.Incumbent Federalist member of Virginia's Executive Council James Wood defeated former Governor of Virginia Beverley Randolph, incumbent member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Botetourt County Thomas Madison and William Clarke in a Virginia General Assembly vote.
Arthur Scherr. The Significance of Thomas Pinckney's Candidacy in the Election of 1796. The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 76, No. 2 (April, 1975), pp. 51–59. Lee W. Formwalt. An English Immigrant Views American Society: Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Virginia Years, 1796-1798.
* Jefferson received only 4 of Maryland's 10 electoral votes in the 1796 election. In 1800, he received 5 of 10. † Jefferson received only 20 of Virginia's 21 electoral votes in the 1796 election. ‡ Jefferson received only 8 of North Carolina's 12 electoral votes in the 1800 election, as opposed to the 11 of 12 he received in 1796.
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The 1796–97 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures .