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Who did george washington run against in his first presidential election?
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∙ 6y ago
For all intents and purposes, the enormously popular Washington ran unopposed in both the 1789 and 1792 elections. The only real issue to be decided was who would be chosen as vice president. Under the system then in place, each elector cast two votes; if a person received a vote from a majority of the electors, that person became president, and the runner-up became vice president. All 69 electors cast one vote for Washington. Their other votes were divided among eleven other candidates, with John Adams receiving the most and becoming vice president.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 6y agoIn the first election, 1789, the candidates were:
Edward Telfair
John Rutledge
John Milton
Benjamin Lincoln
Samuel Huntington
Robert H. Harrison
George Clinton
James Armstrong
John Adams
In the second election, 1792, the candidates were: George Washington
John Adams
George Clinton
Aaron Burr
No one!
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∙ 13y agoIt is commonly accepted that George Washington might as well have ran unopposed as he received 100% of the popular vote and half of the total electoral votes.
However, he did run against the following candidates (the numbers in parenthesis represent the number of electoral votes each received; they all received none of the popular vote):
- John Adams (36)
- John Jay (7)
- Robert H. Harrison (6)
- John Rutledge (6)
- John Hancock (4)
- George Clinton (3)
- Samuel Huntington (2)
- John Milton (2)
- James Armstrong (1)
- Benjamin Lincoln (1)
- Edward Telfair (1)
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∙ 12y agoGeorge Washington, who won 100 percent of the Electoral College in 1789.
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∙ 12y agoDr. J.p.carter B -)
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∙ 13y agoJohn Adams
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