Richard e neal election of 1800

For related races, see 1800 United States elections.

Presidential elections were held in the United States from October 31 to December 3, 1800.

In what is sometimes called the "Revolution of 1800",^[2] the Democratic-Republican Party candidate, Vice PresidentThomas Jefferson, defeated the Federalist Party candidate and incumbent, PresidentJohn Adams.

The election was a political realignment that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican leadership.

Richard e neal election of 1800

This was the first presidential election in American history to be a rematch. It was also the first election in American history where an incumbent president did not win re-election.

Adams had narrowly defeated Jefferson in the 1796 election.

Under the rules of the electoral system in place before the 1804 ratification of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, each member of the Electoral College cast two votes, with no distinction made between electoral vo