The 1808 United States presidential election was the sixth quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. Madison’s victory made him the first individual to succeed a president of the same party.
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The 1808 United States presidential election was the sixth quadrennial presidential election. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively. Madison’s victory made him the first individual to succeed a president of the same party. The election was marked by opposition to Jefferson’s Embargo Act of 1807, a halt to trade with Europe that disproportionately hurt New England merchants and was perceived as favoring France over Britain.
This was the first of two instances in American history in which a new president was selected but the incumbent vice president won re-election, the other being in 1828. Only 10 of the 17 states chose electors by popular vote. The popular vote totals of the elector with the highest total of votes appear to be incomplete. The electoral votes of North Carolina and Tennessee do not appear to have been counted for the 1808 election.
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