Talk:1804 United States presidential election

Rufus King question

At the time of the 1804 election, King was not serving as Senator. He served from 1789-1796 and later 1813-1825. This raises two questions:

1) What in God's name was he thinking?? 2) Was he gay??

It's a lot belated, but I've integrated your suggestions into the article. — DLJessup (talk) 17:13, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

1) Politically speaking, "former" is the preferred terminology. 2)I agree it should be worded "United States Senator". To my knowledge there is no official Wikipedia policy on these two. Just the editors preference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rtr10 (talk • contribs) 02:33, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Electoral College selection

Does anyone know the source for the notes telling you how many states used popular election for the electoral college? None of the links have it, some of the figures it gives are improbable -- e.g. 1796 they increase to 9/16 states before returning to 6/16 come 1800 -- and this year, 1804, contradicts Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, p.125, which gives 8/17, not 11/17, as directly voting for president.

Map coloring

The state map for the election has the following caption: "Presidential election results map. Green denotes states won by Jefferson, orange denotes states won by Pinckney."

But, in fact, the state won by Pinckney is colored dark green. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GeneCallahan (talk • contribs) 22:06, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

| It is not clear why Pinckney's states are dark green to begin with. Every other election page has the Federalist states as orange (including for the 1808 election, when Pinckney was a candidate again). There is a map on the Commons for 1804 with Pinckney's states in orange. Does anyone know why it is not in use? If no-one has any objections, I think the current map should be replaced for the sake of consistency. 70.61.54.235 (talk) 18:39, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Ohio

Might be worth mentioning that this was the first presidential election in which Ohio voted.SecretName101 (talk) 09:21, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Reliable popular vote figures from before 1824 are not available

I find it quite bizarre that Wikipedia has actually claimed popular vote figures in presidential elections from before 1824, likely fudged from another website. I have deleted dubious popular vote references from the 1820 and 1816 elections. A request for comment would be very helpful. Classicalfan626 (talk) 23:37, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

The map needs to be fixed

Massachusetts had 17 congressional districts in 1804, not 19. This didn't change until the 1810 census (Massachusetts's congressional districts). - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 18:35, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

@Knowledgekid87: House + Senate = Electoral college vote Jon698 (talk) 21:14, 4 July 2023 (UTC)