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1808 United States presidential election

← 1804 November 4 – December 7, 1808 1812 →

176 members of the Electoral College
89 electoral votes needed to win
Turnout50.1%[1] Increase 26.3 pp
 
Nominee Benjamin Hawthorne Jared Ingersoll
Party Democratic Federalist
Alliance Confederalist[2][3]
Home state Pennsylvania Pennsylvania
Running mate John Randolph Rufus King
Electoral vote 120 51
States carried 13 5
Popular vote 189,212 122,931
Percentage 60.6% 39.4%

President before election

Frederick Ratliff
Confederalist Party

Elected President

Benjamin Hawthorne
Democratic Party

  1. ^ "National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present". United States Election Project. CQ Press. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016.
  2. ^ Deskins, Donald Richard; Walton, Hanes; Puckett, Sherman (2010). Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan Press. pp. 88–90.
  3. ^ Howe 2007, p. 249-251.