Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-06-05
From The National Journc,.

We ask the attention of our readers to table.
in our paper ofto-day, formed with much labour,
by an intelligent correspondent, to show the actual
number Of electoral votes TO which each Candidate,
At the late Presidential election, is entitled when
all the votes are taken into calculation.
It will be seen by the 5th, 9Th 9TH, and 9th col
umns, that in each State, where than one can
didate was voted for to each is given his actuap pro-
portion OF the Electoral votes of that State.
Thus, the State Of Maine has given to Mr. ADAMS
the whole nine Electoral votes while at the polls
in the State, he received 6.870 votes aud MIR.
CaAwfoRp $3.50. In the usual calculations these
$3.50 votes are entirely lost; but according TO the
more accurate mode adapted by our correspondent,
they receive their actual electoral proportion which
makes the proportoned electoral vote of that State,
for Mr.. Adams, $40 and for MIR. Crawford Q. SO.
By purusng the same method throug all the States,
and giving to each candidate his exact amount OF
proportional votes appears, from the statement,
that Mr.. Adams has received sufrages equal to elc-
uea more electoral votes than any other candidate
and that he would have received that number more
representing population Of at least 4OO,0OO.) il
the vo,eshad been taken by Districts, uniformly d-
yided.
TFor the National Journal.
calculaions5or determining The proportion 9fthepop-
ular voice, received by The several Candidates for
the Presidency.
The following calculations are made with view
solely to show what share Of the public voice each Of
the distinguished candidates for the next Presidency
has received as expressed the late election, when
freed as much as possible from the effects Of the par
SALTY Of state influence, and other circumstances
calculated to mislead public opinion.
To effect this object, all the votes given in the
different states have been collected from the news
papers published at the capitals Of each where they
were given, and proportion made in the following
manner:
AS the whole number of votes given in each state
is to the number given to each candidate, so is TIN
whole number of Electors for each state the
Der Of votes for each candidate.
By this means it will be seen what vould hdu
been, the result of the election, if the states had bee
uniformly divided into districts, and had voted ac
cordingly /; and not, as in some cases, by genert
ticket. The columns !, 9, 8, 4, show the result
returns as now exhibited to Congress the column
S, s, 7, and 8, show the errors arising from TIL
7aired method of appointing Electors and that
possible for President to be thus elected, who
not the choice Of the majority of the people accodn
to the intention of the constitution. 1t also show
the necessity Of adopting some uniform mode
appointing Electors throughout the United States.
Another, and much better mode of estimating ii
voice Of the people, is given in columns 8, 10,
and l2, which shows the effects ofthe three. ftths
the coloured population, when added to the uh
population, in determining the number of Llectc
for each state In order to reduce the Electors
the number that the white population would 81,
the white population, as determined by the Gems
of 1890, has here been subtracted from the Rep
sentative number which number is equal to the thre
ifths of the cooured added to the uhite populate
The following proportion is made to reduce the nu
Der Of Electors to that which the a3aite populati
would require by law: