A presidential election was held in Kentucky between November 2, 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 was elected unanimously. Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the Federalist former U.S. minister to France, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
General election Summary Kentucky voters chose eight electors from a field of 31 candidates, all Democratic-Republicans, who ran in the state's two multi-member districts. 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 the votes for the leading Democratic-Republican candidate in each district to give an approximate sense of the statewide popular vote.
Results by district + District Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Total Votes % Kentucky–Northern 4 2,827 100.00 4 2,827 Kentucky–Southern 4 2,253 100.00 4 2,253 TOTAL 8 5,080 100.00 8 5,080
Northern District + 1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky's Northern District Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Charles Scott 2,827 Democratic-Republican John Coburn 1,806 Democratic-Republican Hubbard Taylor 1,592 Democratic-Republican William Irvine 1,267 Democratic-Republican Thomas Bodley 1,185 Democratic-Republican James Garrard 777 Democratic-Republican Robert Sanders 695 Democratic-Republican Duval Payne 386 Democratic-Republican Robert Todd 385 Democratic-Republican John Hall 317 Democratic-Republican George S. Smith 263 Democratic-Republican John Price 226 Democratic-Republican Thomas Irwin 52 ≈2,827
Southern District + 1804 United States presidential election in Kentucky's Southern District Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Isaac Shelby 2,253 Democratic-Republican Ninian Edwards 1,585 Democratic-Republican Joseph Lewis 1,310 Democratic-Republican William Roberts 1,207 ≈2,253
Results by county This table shows the highest vote for a Democratic-Republican elector in each county. Returns are missing from all but a few counties; the totals presented here therefore differ significantly from the statewide summary based on the district returns.
County Thomas JeffersonDemocratic-Republican Total Votes % Adair Barren Boone Bourbon Bracken Breckinridge Bullitt Campbell Christian Clarke Cumberland Fayette Fleming Floyd Franklin 442 100.00 442 Gallatin Garrard Green Greenup Hardin 104 100.00 104 Harrison Henderson Henry Jefferson Jessamine Knox Lincoln Livingston Logan Madison Mason Mercer Montgomery Muhlenberg Nelson 277 100.00 277 Nicholas Ohio Pendleton Pulaski Scott Shelby 403 100.00 403 Warren Washington 175 100.00 175 Wayne Woodford TOTAL 1,401 100.00 1,401
See also United States presidential elections in Kentucky
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