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Election Day in Philadelphia (1815) by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall [1] and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions. In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States.
The history of the United States from 1815 to 1849—also called the Middle Period, the Antebellum Era, or the Age of Jackson—involved westward expansion across the American continent, the proliferation of suffrage to nearly all white men, and the rise of the Second Party System of politics between Democrats and Whigs.
May 3 – Drusilla Wilson, American temperance leader and Quaker pastor (died 1908) May 10 – Henry Bibb, author and abolitionist who was born a slave (died 1854) May 18 – Thomas S. Bocock, United States Congressman, Speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives (died 1891) June 1 – Philip Kearny, United States Army officer ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Visualization, analysis, interactive maps and real-time graphics. Browse, copy and fork our open-source software. Remix thousands of aggregated polling results. Keep up with our latest on Twitter and Tumblr. Special Elections
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
Interactive maps, databases and real ... based on HuffPost Pollster’s poll-tracking model. ... 4/12 Presidential Forecast. Maps and charts of HuffPost Pollster's ...
A History of the United States: Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815. University Press of America. ISBN 9780819189158. Collier, Christopher. Building a new nation : the Federalist era, 1789-1803 (1999) for middle schools; Finkelman, Paul, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. ISBN 9780684804989.