1805 United States gubernatorial elections

United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1805, in 13 states.

1805 United States gubernatorial elections

← 1804 March 12, 1805 – December 7, 1805 1806 →
13 state governorships
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party Democratic-Republican Federalist Independent Last election 12 governorships 5 governorships 0 governorships Seats before 12 5 0 Seats won 9 3 1 Seats after 12 4 1 Seat change 1 1 Seats up 9 4 0
Democratic-Republican gain      Democratic-Republican hold      Federalist gain      Federalist hold      Independent gain

Eight governors were elected by popular vote and five were elected by state legislatures.

Results

State	Election date	Incumbent	Party	Status	Opposing candidates
Connecticut	11 April 1805[lower-alpha 1]	Jonathan Trumbull Jr.	Federalist	Re-elected, 12,700 (61.47%)[lower-alpha 2]	William Hart (Democratic-Republican), 7,810 (37.80%) Scattering 151 (0.73%) [1][2][3][4][5][6]
Georgia (election by legislature)	7 November 1805?[lower-alpha 3]	John Milledge	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 61 votes [10]
Maryland (election by legislature)	11 November 1805	Robert Bowie	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, unknown number of votes [11][12][13][14]
Massachusetts	1 April 1805	Caleb Strong	Federalist	Re-elected, 32,988 (51.45%)[lower-alpha 4]	James Sullivan (Democratic-Republican), 31,125 (48.55%)[lower-alpha 5] [15][16][17][4][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
New Hampshire	12 March 1805	John Taylor Gilman	Federalist	Defeated, 12,287 (43.20%)	John Langdon (Democratic-Republican), 16,097 (56.59%) Scattering 59 (0.21%) [26][27][28][4][29][30][31][32]
New Jersey (election by legislature)	25 October 1805	Joseph Bloomfield	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, unanimously [33][34][35][36]
North Carolina (election by legislature)	25 November 1805[37][38]	James Turner	Democratic-Republican	Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory	Nathaniel Alexander (Democratic-Republican), 108 votes Benjamin Williams (Federalist), 66 votes[lower-alpha 6] Joseph Taylor (Democratic-Republican), 3 votes Little, 1 vote More, 1 vote Whitfield, 1 vote [39][40][41][42]
Ohio	8 October 1805	Edward Tiffin	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 4,783 (100.00%)[lower-alpha 7][lower-alpha 8] [51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66]
Pennsylvania	8 October 1805	Thomas McKean	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected as an Independent Republican, 43,644 (52.89%)	Simon Snyder (Democratic-Republican), 38,483 (46.63%)[lower-alpha 9] Scattering 395 (0.48%)[lower-alpha 10] [67][68][69][4][70][71][72][73][74]
Rhode Island	3 April 1805[lower-alpha 11]	Arthur Fenner	Democratic-Republican/Country	Re-elected. Returns lost.	Seth Wheaton (Federalist) [75][76][77][4][78][79][80]
Tennessee	1-2 August 1805	John Sevier	Democratic-Republican	Re-elected, 10,293 (63.74%)[lower-alpha 12]	Archibald Roane (Democratic-Republican), 5,855 (36.26%)[lower-alpha 13] [81][82][83][4][84][85][86][87]
Vermont	3 September 1805	Isaac Tichenor	Federalist	Re-elected, 8,683 (60.87%)[lower-alpha 14]	Jonathan Robinson (Democratic-Republican), 5,054 (35.43%) Scattering 527 (3.69%) [88][89][90][4][91][92][93][94][95][96]
Virginia (election by legislature)	7 December 1805[97][lower-alpha 15]	John Page	Democratic-Republican	Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory	William H. Cabell (Democratic-Republican), 99 votes Alexander MacRae, 90 votes [99][100][101][102]

See also

• 1805 United States elections

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Notes

1. Glashan records this election as taking place on 8 April.
2. Some sources record the result as Trumbull 13,689, Hart 8,223; this includes 989 votes for Trumbull and 413 for Hart from six towns rejected by the General Assembly.
3. Two contemporary newspapers quote a letter dated November 4 which states the election took place the previous Thursday, which would place the election on October 31.^[7][8] However, another newspaper states that the legislature did not meet until 5 November, which would suggest a date a week later.^[9] An election in the first week of November would be in line with other gubernatorial elections in Georgia in the 1800s.
4. Many sources give the result as Strong 35,204, Sullivan 33,518, Scattering 264, but these are the results given before the canvass of votes by the state legislature which rejected the votes of 62 towns. Glashan gives Sullivan's total as 33,543, and scattering votes as 239. This discrepancy depends on the allocation of 25 votes given for "James Solvan."
5. Includes scattering votes.
6. Some sources give Williams' total as 65. The result given here is that given in the North Carolina Legislative Papers.
7. Most sources agree on this result, and one source states that this is the result declared in the General Assembly.^[43] This result can be achieved by taking the results from Belmont, Butler, Columbiana, Fairfield, Franklin, Highland, and Ross, Greene, Jefferson, Scioto, Warren, and Washington, Gallia, and Muskingum counties only. A New Nation Votes includes returns from Adams, Athens, Clermont, Hamilton, and Montgomery counties, and records the result as Tiffin 6,321, Nathaniel Massie 171, Scattering 27.^[44] It is further recorded that Tiffin received 379 votes in Trumbull County.^[45]
8. Some sources give Tiffin's total as 4,788, which is the sum of the county breakdown for the counties included in the official total.^{[4][46][47][48][49][50]}
9. Some sources give Snyder's total as 38,833. This discrepancy appears to come from the transposition of the last two digits of Snyder's total, plus the scattering votes. 38,483 is the figure given in the Pennsylvania Senate Journal.
10. The scattering votes were cast for "Samuel Snyder" in Bucks County.
11. Glashan records this election as taking place on 17 April.
12. A New Nation Votes states that the result per the Tennessee Senate Journal was Sevier 10,393, Roane 5,909.
13. Dubin and OurCampaigns give Roane's total as 5,795.
14. Various sources give slightly different results for this election. The result given here is that described by A New Nation Votes as "the officially recorded votes".
15. Encyclopedia Virginia records this election as taking place on 6 December.^[98]

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