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A presidential election was held in New York on November 9, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election.^[1] The Democratic-Republican Party's ticket of incumbent president Thomas Jefferson and former New York governor George Clinton defeated the Federalist Party's ticket in the New York State Legislature.^[2]

Jefferson won the national election in a landslide over the de facto Federalist candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Although a clandestine gathering of Federalist members of Congress had nominated Pinckney in February, the Federalist electors were formally unpledged. The Federalist press attempted to sow discord in the Democratic-Republican ranks by encouraging the electors to vote for Clinton for president, rather than for Jefferson as pledged, but was not successful in obtaining defections.^[3]

• United States presidential elections in New York

• Dauer, Manning Julian (2002). "Election of 1804". In Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.; Israel, Fred L. (eds.). History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2001. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. pp. 159–82.
• Lampi, Philip J. (2012). "New York 1804 Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
• New York (n.d.). Journal of the Assembly of the State of New York. Albany.