The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college. The choice for vice president was more divisive. The Federalist Party threw its support behind the incumbent vice president, John Adams of Massachusetts. The Democratic-Republican Party backed the candidacy of New York Governor George Clinton.
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The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college. The choice for vice president was more divisive. The Federalist Party threw its support behind the incumbent vice president, John Adams of Massachusetts, while the Democratic-Republican Party backed the candidacy of New York Governor George Clinton. The elections of 1792 were the first ones in the United States to be contested on anything resembling a partisan basis. In 1792, each of the original 13 states appointed electors, as did the newly added states of Kentucky and Vermont. The election was also the only presidential election that was not held exactly four years after the previous election, most of the previous vote was held four years prior. The candidates were Chief Justice John Jay, a incumbent, and George Clinton, a former anti-Federalist leader.
In New York, the race for governor was fought along these lines, with Chief Justice Jay defeating George Clinton in a close race for the governor’s office. The winner of the election was George Washington, who received 132 electoral votes, one from each elector. Washington is generally held by historians to have run unopposed; Adams won 77 electoral votes to win re-election. Clinton finished in third place with 50 electoral votes; two other candidates won the five remaining electoral votes. The candidate who received the greatest number of votes became president, and the runner-up became vice president. The Twelfth Amendment would eventually replace this system, requiring electors to cast one vote for president and oneVote for vice President, but this change did not take effect until 1804.
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