A presidential election was held in Maryland on November 12, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election. The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton carried seven electoral districts, choosing nine electors. The Federalist Party carried the remaining districts, choosing two electors who voted for the former U.S. minister to France, Charles C. Pinckney, and the former U.S. minister to Great Britain, Rufus King.

Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over Pinckney, who received electoral votes from Connecticut and Delaware, in addition to the two Maryland districts. Maryland was one of three states where electors were chosen by popular vote which the Federalists seriously contested. Although a clandestine gathering of Federalist members of Congress had nominated Pinckney in February, the Federalist electors were formally unpledged. The defeat of the Federalist ticket in Massachusetts and New Hampshire made Maryland's two Federalist districts the only popular vote constituencies to oppose Jefferson's re-election.

Results Summary Maryland chose 11 electors from nine electoral districts—seven single-member districts and two plural districts electing two electors each. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to elect the members of the Electoral College individually, rather than as a block. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential nominee, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. The following table calculates the sum of all votes in the single-member districts and the votes for the leading Democratic-Republican and Federalist candidates in each plural district to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote.

Results by district + 1804 United States presidential election in Maryland by district District Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Other Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Maryland–1 1 239 27.82 — 620 72.18 1 — -381 -44.36 859 Maryland–2 1 498 98.61 1 3 0.59 — 4 0.79 495 98.02 505 Maryland–3 2 1,038 99.33 2 3 0.29 — 4 0.38 1,035 99.04 1,045 Maryland–4 2 2,370 99.29 2 6 0.25 — 11 0.46 2,364 99.04 2,387 Maryland–5 1 276 99.28 1 2 0.72 — — 274 98.56 278 Maryland–6 1 668 99.55 1 — — 3 0.45 668 99.55 671 Maryland–7 1 602 100.00 1 — — — 602 100.00 602 Maryland–8 1 793 82.95 1 163 17.05 — — 630 65.90 956 Maryland–9 1 995 39.69 — 1,512 60.31 1 — -517 -20.62 2,507 TOTAL 11 7,479 76.24 9 2,309 23.54 2 22 0.22 5,171 52.70 9,810

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Results by county In counties where voters selected more than one elector, this table compares the votes for the leading elector pledged to each ticket by county and county subdivision. It therefore differs slightly from the state and district tables, which compare the votes for the leading electors by district.

+ 1804 United States presidential election in Maryland by county County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Unpledged electorsFederalist Other Margin Total Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Allegany 4 236 97.52 6 2.48 — 230 95.04 242 Anne Arundel 3 248 99.20 — 2 0.80 246 98.40 250 Baltimore 5 276 99.28 2 0.72 — 274 98.56 278 Baltimore City 3 758 99.60 2 0.26 1 0.13 756 99.34 761 Calvert 1 221 99.55 1 0.45 — 220 99.10 222 Caroline 8 287 92.28 24 7.72 — 263 84.56 311 Cecil 6 238 99.17 — 2 0.83 236 98.34 240 Charles 1 118 24.08 372 75.92 — -254 -51.84 490 Dorchester 8 132 80.98 31 19.02 — 101 61.96 163 9 49 19.01 208 80.93 — 159 61.92 257 Frederick 4 1,523 99.74 — 4 0.26 1,519 99.48 1,527 Harford 6 430 99.77 — 1 0.23 429 99.54 431 Kent 7 315 100.00 — — 315 100.00 315 Montgomery 2 50 96.15 1 1.92 1 1.92 49 94.23 52 3 32 96.97 1 3.03 — 31 93.94 33 Prince George's 1 15 32.61 31 67.39 — -16 -34.78 46 2 227 98.27 1 0.43 3 1.30 226 97.84 231 Queen Anne's 7 287 100.00 — — 287 100.00 287 St. Mary's 1 106 32.82 217 67.18% — -111 -34.36 323 Somerset 9 259 31.13 573 68.87 — -314 -37.74 832 Talbot 8 374 77.59 108 22.41 — 266 55.18 482 Washington 4 612 99.67 — 2 0.33 610 99.34 614 Worcester 9 687 48.45 731 51.55 — -44 -3.10 1,418 TOTAL 7,480 76.28 2,309 23.55 16 0.16 5,171 52.74 9,805

Counties that flipped from Federalist to Democratic-Republican Allegany Calvert Frederick Montgomery Prince George's

See also United States presidential elections in Maryland 1804 United States presidential election 1804 United States elections

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