1796 Presidential Election

[ElectionsGuy]

1804: 85.7% Thomas Jefferson
1808: 50.0% George Clinton
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1832: 51.5% Henry Clay
1840: 42.9% Martin Van Buren
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1852: 69.2% John Hale
1860: 71.7% Abraham Lincoln
1864: 71.4% Abraham Lincoln
1868: 77.1% Ulysses Grant
1872: 65.4% Ulysses Grant
1888: 51.6% Grover Cleveland
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1904: 51.4% Theodore Roosevelt
1912: 37.5% William Taft
1936: 45.5% Franklin Roosevelt
1944: 56.8% Franklin Roosevelt
1948: 35.7% Harry Truman
1952: 63.9% Dwight Eisenhower
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson
1968: 44.4% Hubert Humphrey
1980: 26.2% Ronald Reagan
2008: 53.8% Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1796

Jefferson

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

No other choices? There were at least four major candidates that year.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Adams.

[ElectionsGuy]

No other choices? There were at least four major candidates that year.

Our electoral system before 12th amendment was pretty screwed up. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only ones voters could actually vote for. The guy who got the second most votes got to be vice president. I get confused every time I think about this.

[SWE]

Jefferson. Burr for Vice president

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

No other choices? There were at least four major candidates that year.

Our electoral system before 12th amendment was pretty screwed up. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only presidential candidates, and the only ones voters could actually vote for. All the other candidates were vice presidential candidates that electors picked with their second vote.

There were machinations to elect Pinckney, and in 1800, there was a decent chance Burr would become Adams' successor.

[ElectionsGuy]

No other choices? There were at least four major candidates that year.

Our electoral system before 12th amendment was pretty screwed up. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only presidential candidates, and the only ones voters could actually vote for. All the other candidates were vice presidential candidates that electors picked with their second vote.

There were machinations to elect Pinckney, and in 1800, there was a decent chance Burr would become Adams' successor.

I actually explained that a bit wrong (edited post), every elector was for president, but don't ask me why there were only two or one people on the ballot for voters to actually vote for in these times. In 1800, Burr and Jefferson tied in electors, and Jefferson became president by a house vote (which also means Burr became vice president). The only ones voters could vote for were Jefferson and Adams.

[Goldwater]

Adams.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Jefferson, although I would have been okay with Adams.