1716. .....1406 GOVERNOR-1840. GOVERNOR-1839. PRESIDENT-1836. Jenison. W. Dillingham, V.B. Jenison, W. Smilic, V.B. Harrison. Van Buren. 1050......2015 Counties. 1056..... 1684 939 Caledonia ............ .2167 POLITICIAN'S REGISTER FOR 1841: A COMPILATION OF RETURNS OF VOTES, CAST IN THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE UNION MAINLY DURING THE YEARS 1836, 1838, & 1840, FOR President, Members of Congress, and State Officers, ARRANGED BY COUNTIES, ALPHABETICALLY, Including Full Returns of the late Presidential Election. New-York: PUBLISHED BY H. GREELEY, NO. 30 ANN-STREET. 1841. Reproduced by the AMERICAN PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHT ,1867. Frocess TABLE OF CONTENTS. ELECTION RETURNS. Alabama.....~ Delaware Georgia.. Illinois...... Indiana.. Kentucky Louisiana 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. .Pres't, '36; Gov'r, '39; Pres't, '40.... Vermont....... OTHER ELECTIONS-MAINLY CONGRESS, 1838, '9. 50 33 40 .35, 36, 38 .45, 46 .51, 52 .39, 40 .... 33 34 46 4. Tennessee 55, 56 Georgia .... Massachusetts Michigan.. 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. .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 30. 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. 1789-George Clinton. Robert Yates. Votes. Majority. *Votes of Otsego and Tioga Counties rejected, which it is said would have reversed the majority. .96,135 ...3,650 136,794 106,444 .33,345 128,842 120,361 .8,481 .2,332 .166,410 156,672 9,738 .181,900 .169,008 .12,892 .166,122 136,648 .3,496 192,882 |