Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1816

CountyTotal VoteNational RepublicanAnti CaucusPluralityWinnerPct Nat'l RepubPct A C
James Monroe
Rufus King
Pennsylvania4324125653175888065
NR
59.3340.67
Adams653205448-243
AC
31.3968.61
Allegheny637218419-201
AC
34.2265.78
Armstrong1577186-15
AC
45.2254.78
Beaver25718077103
NR
70.0429.96
Bedford639423216207
NR
66.2033.80
Berks23841563821742
NR
65.5634.44
Bradford47739582313
NR
82.8117.19
Bucks373917891950-161
AC
47.8552.15
Butler18315429125
NR
84.1515.85
Cambria98752352
NR
76.5323.47
Centre721479242237
NR
66.4433.56
Chester363319991634365
NR
55.0244.98
Columbia60854464480
NR
89.4710.53
Crawford18195869
NR
52.4947.51
Cumberland17871262525737
NR
70.6229.38
Dauphin763510253257
NR
66.8433.16
Delaware819348471-123
AC
42.4957.51
Erie21585130-45
AC
39.5360.47
Fayette429271158113
NR
63.1736.83
Franklin1061934127807
NR
88.0311.97
Greene15614016124
NR
89.7410.26
Huntingdon54447470404
NR
87.1312.87
Indiana19176115-39
AC
39.7960.21
Lancaster266112231438-215
AC
45.9654.04
Lebanon714516198318
NR
72.2727.73
Lehigh843596247349
NR
70.7029.30
Luzerne69137831365
NR
54.7045.30
Lycoming28426717250
NR
94.015.99
Mercer1921316170
NR
68.2331.77
Mifflin636525111414
NR
82.5517.45
Montgomery310418851219666
NR
60.7339.27
Northampton1396860536324
NR
61.6038.40
Northumberland663506157349
NR
76.3223.68
Philadelphia366916981971-273
AC
46.2853.72
Philadelphia City328711482139-991
AC
34.9365.07
Pike1591243589
NR
77.9922.01
Schuylkill40834068272
NR
83.3316.67
Somerset30625155196
NR
82.0317.97
Susquehanna33824296146
NR
71.6028.40
Tioga109862363
NR
78.9021.10
Union60352281441
NR
86.5713.43
Venango1121001288
NR
89.2910.71
Washington621489132357
NR
78.7421.26
Wayne94821270
NR
87.2312.77
Westmoreland721414307107
NR
57.4242.58
York1298980318662
NR
75.5024.50

Source: Harrisburg Chronicle, 2 December 1816.
Credit: The Phillip J. Lampi Collection of Early American Voting Data
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, Massachusetts
Four electors were supported by both factions.
The Republican electors were pledged to James Monroe, the Anti-Caucus Republican and Federalist electors were unpledged.
Smull's Legislative Handbook for 1905, p. 472, shows the candidate as Rufus King and classifies him as a Federalist.
Other candidates mentioned were William Crawford and DeWitt Clinton. Almost all Republican newspapers classified the opposition ticket as either Federalist or the "Carlisle Ticket," referring to the location where the ticket was formed.
Federalist papers usually called it the Independent or Anti-Caucus ticket.

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