# 1804 Presidential Election [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s reelection — the first U.S. presidential election conducted under the **[[12th Amendment]]**, which separated presidential and vice-presidential ballots after the 1800 Jefferson-Burr deadlock. Jefferson defeated Federalist Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 162–14 in the [[Electoral College]]. The Federalist Party, having lost the executive in 1800 and now lost it overwhelmingly, began the slow institutional decline that would end with its effective collapse by 1820. ## Result - **[[Thomas Jefferson]]** (Democratic-Republican) — 162 electoral votes - **Charles Cotesworth Pinckney** (Federalist) — 14 electoral votes - Total: 176 electoral votes - George Clinton became Vice President (Burr dropped from the ticket after the Hamilton duel earlier in 1804) ## Right-wing relevance The 1804 election is historically significant as the procedural validation of the 12th Amendment and as the first electoral landslide in American history. Its right-wing relevance is minimal except as part of the longer founding-era narrative; the Jefferson administration's substantive record (Louisiana Purchase 1803, Lewis and Clark, Embargo Act) is the substantive material the right-wing canon engages with rather than the election that confirmed his second term. ## Connections - [[Thomas Jefferson]] — Reelected. ---