══════════════╤══════════╤══════╤══════╤═════════╤══════ │ Thomas │Aaron │ John │ C. C. │John STATES. │Jefferson,│ Burr,│Adams,│Pinckney,│ Jay, │ Va. │N. Y. │ Mass.│ S. C. │N. Y. ──────────────┼──────────┼──────┼──────┼─────────┼────── New Hampshire │ ―― │ ―― │ 6 │ 6 │ ―― Vermont │ ―― │ ―― │ 4 │ 4 │ ―― Massachusetts │ ―― │ ―― │ 16 │ 16 │ ―― Rhode Island │ ―― │ ―― │ 4 │ 3 │ 1 Connecticut │ ―― │ ―― │ 9 │ 9 │ ―― New York │ 12 │ 12 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― New Jersey │ ―― │ ―― │ 7 │ 7 │ ―― Pennsylvania │ 8 │ 8 │ 7 │ 7 │ ―― Delaware │ ―― │ ―― │ 3 │ 3 │ ―― Maryland[3] │ 5 │ 5 │ 5 │ 5 │ ―― Virginia │ 21 │ 21 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― North Carolina│ 8 │ 8 │ 4 │ 4 │ ―― South Carolina│ 8 │ 8 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― Georgia │ 4 │ 4 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― Kentucky │ 4 │ 4 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― Tennessee │ 3 │ 3 │ ―― │ ―― │ ―― ├──────────┼──────┼──────┼─────────┼────── │ 73 │ 73 │ 65 │ 64 │ 1 ══════════════╧══════════╧══════╧══════╧═════════╧══════ [3] One Maryland elector did not attend. It is impossible to give anything like an intelligent presentation of the popular vote between Jefferson and Adams. In most of the States which chose electors by popular vote there was practically no contest, as the New England States voted solidly for Adams, and the Southern States south of Maryland voted as solidly for Jefferson, with the exception of North Carolina, where an electoral ticket seems to have been chosen on the original theory that electors should exercise sound discretion in the choice of a President, and in the exercise of that discretion 4 of the North Carolina electors voted for Adams and 8 for Jefferson. Had Pennsylvania been permitted to give expression either to the popular will or to the decided Republican majority of the Legislature, 7 of the Pennsylvania votes would have been taken from Adams and added to Jefferson, which would have made him 80 electoral votes to 58 for Adams.