Federalist Party candidate John Adams won the 1796 presidential election defeating Democratic-Republican Party candidate Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson finished second with 68 electoral votes. Jefferson received the second highest number of electoral votes and was elected vice president according to the prevailing rules of electoral college voting.
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The National Republicans and the Democrat Republicans
Political parties in America go as far back as 1800, when in the presidential election, John Adams, who identified himself as a federalist, ran against Thomas Jefferson, who identified himself as an anti-federalist.
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John Adams Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr Thomas Jefferson
In the United States presidential election of 1800, only two men ran. Thomas Jefferson and running mate Aaron Burr ran for the Democratic-Republican party, and John Adams ran for the Federalist Party with running mate Charles C. Pinckney.
In the United States there are two main people who ran for president in 1876. Their political parties were the Democrats who nominated Samuel Tilden and Republicans who had Rutherford B. Hayes as their candidate. .
The US vice president Joe Biden, ran for re-election this year and won.
There were actually six Democratic-Republicans who ran for President, and four who were elected to the office:Thomas Jefferson (1800 election, won)Aaron Burr (1800 election, lost to Jefferson)James Madison (1808 and 1812 elections, won)James Monroe (1816 and 1820 elections, won)John Quincy Adams (1824 election, won; ran on National Republican ticket in 1828, lost)William H. Crawford (1824, lost)
Five parties nominated candidates for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, the Republican Party, the Democratic Party, the Libertarian Party, the Green Party and the Constitution Party. In addition to their candidates, Ralph Nader ran as an Independent.
The election in 1796 was run by state governments, as there was no centralized federal body overseeing elections at that time. The main candidates were John Adams, who ran as a Federalist, and Thomas Jefferson, who ran as a Democratic-Republican. Other candidates from different parties also participated in the election.
Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, John Adams, Charles Pinckney and John Lay.
Most historians cite the US presidential election of 1800 as the first true election campaign for the US presidency. This was the case in that the Republican and Federalist parties campaigned vigorously in all of the states. In addition, there was newspaper ads calling candidates horrible names. This may be considered the first election with negative media ads.