A presidential election was held in Ohio on November 1, 1816 as part of the 1816 United States presidential election. The Democratic-Republican ticket of the U.S. secretary of state James Monroe and the governor of New York Daniel D. Tompkins defeated the Federalist ticket. The Federalist Party failed to nominate a candidate. In the national election, Monroe easily defeated the senior U.S. senator from New York Rufus King, who received 34 votes from unpledged electors despite not being a candidate.
General election Summary Ohio chose eight electors on a statewide general ticket. Original returns for the election have been lost. Contemporary newspapers state the Democratic-Republican candidates ran unopposed without providing exact figures. Beginning in 1891, the Ohio secretary of state included a table of past election returns in his Annual Report that records 3,326 votes for Monroe and 563 votes for King; these figures have been republished in subsequent editions of Ohio Election Statistics down to the present day. Although the Annual Report is notably imprecise, lacks county data, and omits the names and votes received by electors pledged to each ticket, it remains the most important source for the statewide popular vote in Ohio in 1816. Michael J. Dubin reprints the figures from the Annual Report for 1816 in his comprehensive study of the popular vote in presidential elections prior to 1860. Phil Lampi's A New Nation Votes project locates partial returns from two counties, but no statewide figures. This table follows the scholarly consensus to defer to the figures in Ohio Election Statistics, as corrected in the 1985–86 edition.
Results + 1816 United States presidential election in Ohio Party Candidate Votes Democratic-Republican Benjamin Hough Democratic-Republican John Patterson Democratic-Republican Abraham Shepherd Democratic-Republican John G. Young Democratic-Republican Aaron Wheeler Democratic-Republican William Skinner Democratic-Republican Othniel Looker Democratic-Republican Joseph Vance Democratic-Republican James Curry None John H. Patch None Reason Bell None Jesup N. Couch None Calvin Pease None Benjamin Tappan None Abraham Skinner None Philemon Beecher None Bezaleel Wells None Francis Freeman None Ethan Allen Brown None William Patterson None Thomas Worthington
Results by county County James MonroeDemocratic-Republican Others Margin Total Votes Percent Votes Percent Votes Percent Adams Ashtabula Athens Belmont Butler Champaign Clermont Clinton Columbiana Coshocton 8 100.00 — 8 100.00 8 Cuyahoga Delaware Fairfield Fayette Franklin Gallia Geauga Greene Guernsey Hamilton Harrison Highland Huron Jackson Jefferson Knox Licking Madison Miami Monroe Montgomery Muskingum Pickaway Pike Portage Preble Richland Ross Scioto Stark Trumbull 12 66.67 6 33.33 6 33.34 18 Tuscarawas Warren 33 100.00 — 33 100.00 33 Washington Wayne TOTAL 53 89.83 6 10.17 47 79.66 59
Electoral college + 1816 United States Electoral College vote in Ohio For President For Vice President Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote Candidate Party Home state Electoralvote James Monroe Democratic-Republican Virginia 8 Daniel D. Tompkins Democratic-Republican New York 8
See also United States presidential elections in Ohio
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