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{{Infobox Election
| election_name      = 1805 United States gubernatorial elections
| country            = United States
| flag_year          = 1795
| type               = legislative
| ongoing            = no
| previous_election  = 1804 United States gubernatorial elections
| previous_year      = 1804
| next_election      = 1806 United States gubernatorial elections
| next_year          = 1806
| seats_for_election = 13 state governorships
| election_date      = March 12, 1805 – December 7, 1805
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| party1             = Democratic-Republican Party (United States)
| last_election1     = 12 governorships
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| 1data1             = 9
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| leader2            =
| party2             = Federalist Party (United States)
| last_election2     = 5 governorships
| seats_before2      = 5
| seats_after2       = 4
| seat_change2       = {{decrease}}1
| seats2             = 3
| 1data2             = 4
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| party3             = Independent (politician)
| last_election3     = 0 governorships
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'''United States gubernatorial elections''' were held in 1805, in 13 states.

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

== Results ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! State !! Election date !! Incumbent !! Party !! Status !! Opposing candidates
|- 
| '''[[1805 Connecticut gubernatorial election|Connecticut]]'''
| 11 April 1805{{efn|Glashan records this election as taking place on 8 April.}}
| '''[[Jonathan Trumbull Jr.]]'''
| Federalist 
| Re-elected, 12,700 (61.47%){{efn|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.}}
| William Hart (Democratic-Republican), 7,810 (37.80%)<br>Scattering 151 (0.73%)<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=218391 |title=CT Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=38-39}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=44}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=86}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Connecticut 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/sb397892m }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 Georgia gubernatorial election|Georgia]]'''<br><small>(election by legislature)</small>
| 7 November 1805?{{efn|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.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Louisville, (G.) Nov. 4 |url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015220/1805-11-09/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state |location=Augusta, GA |date=9 November 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Louisville, (G.) Nov. 4 |url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014395/1805-11-19/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=Georgia republican & state intelligencer |location=Savannah, GA |date=19 November 1805 |page=3 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref> However, another newspaper states that the legislature did not meet until 5 November, which would suggest a date a week later.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Thursday, November 14, 1805 |url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014178/1805-11-14/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=Augusta herald |location=Augusta, GA |date=14 November 1805 |page=3 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref> An election in the first week of November would be in line with other gubernatorial elections in Georgia in the 1800s.}}
| '''[[John Milledge]]'''
| Democratic-Republican 
| Re-elected, 61 votes<br><ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Georgia 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/c821gk90c }}</ref>
|
|-
| '''[[1805 Maryland gubernatorial election|Maryland]]'''<br><small>(election by legislature)</small>
| 11 November 1805
| '''[[Robert Bowie]]'''
| Democratic-Republican
| Re-elected, unknown number of votes<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=122151 |title=MD Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=250}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Maryland 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/pn89d8012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Votes and Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Maryland. November Session, 1806 |url=http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/003186/html/m3186-0303.html |location=Annapolis |publisher=Frederick Green, Printer to the State |page=5 }}</ref>
|
|- 
| '''[[1805 Massachusetts gubernatorial election|Massachusetts]]'''
| 1 April 1805
| '''[[Caleb Strong]]'''
| Federalist 
| Re-elected, 32,988 (51.45%){{efn|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."}}
| [[James Sullivan (governor)|James Sullivan]] (Democratic-Republican), 31,125 (48.55%){{efn|Includes scattering votes.}}<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=224360 |title=MA Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=140-141}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=57}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=266}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Massachusetts 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/k0698872q }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Burdick |first=Charles |date=1814 |title=The Massachusetts Manual: or Political and Historical Register, for the Political Year from June 1814 to June 1815 |volume=I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DP7Y2qQ68wAC&pg=PA26 |location=Boston |publisher=Charles Callender |page=26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar; for the Year of Our Lord 1814, &c., &c. |year=1814 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wcw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36 |location=Boston |publisher=John West & Co. |page=36 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hayward |first=John |date=1847 |title=A Gazetteer of Massachusetts, &c., &c. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4I0-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417 |location=Boston |publisher=John Hayward |page=417 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Massachusetts election |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1805-06-12/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser |location=Washington, D.C. |date=12 June 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Massachusetts. Votes for Governor |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024736/1805-06-14/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=The enquirer |location=Richmond, VA |date=14 June 1805 |page=3 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Massachusetts. Boston, April 16. Election Data |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024736/1806-04-29/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=The enquirer |location=Richmond, VA |date=29 April 1806 |page=3 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref>
|- {{Party shading/Democratic-Republican}}
| '''[[1805 New Hampshire gubernatorial election|New Hampshire]]'''
| 12 March 1805
| [[John Taylor Gilman]]
| Federalist 
| Defeated, 12,287 (43.20%)
| '''[[John Langdon (politician)|John Langdon]]''' (Democratic-Republican), 16,097 (56.59%)<br>Scattering 59 (0.21%)<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=235661 |title=NH Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=200-201}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=66}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=372}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=New Hampshire 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/9k41zf996 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=A Journal of the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at their Session, begun and holden at Concord, on the first Wednesday of June, Anno Domini, 1805 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.095661079&view=1up&seq=11 |location=Concord |publisher=Peirce & Gardner, Printers to the State |page=7 |date=1805 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Farmer |first=James |title=The New Hampshire Annual Register and United States Calendar, 1833 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxkwqy&view=1up&seq=28 |location=Concord |publisher=Marsh, Capen and Lyon |page=18 }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 New Jersey gubernatorial election|New Jersey]]'''<br><small>(election by legislature)</small>
| 25 October 1805
| '''[[Joseph Bloomfield]]'''
| Democratic-Republican 
| Re-elected, unanimously<br>{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=411}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=New Jersey 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/fj236302c }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lee |first=Francis Bazely |date=1902 |title=New Jersey as a colony and a state |volume=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/newjerseyascolon05leef/page/159/mode/1up |location=New York |publisher=Publishing Society of New Jersey |page=159 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Journal of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the State of New-Jersey, &c., &c. Being the First Sitting of the 30th Session |chapter=Minutes and Proceedings of the Joint-Meeting. In Joint-Meeting. Thursday, October 25, 1805 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7htNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87 |location=Cedarville, (West) New-Jersey |publisher=Printed for John Westcott, Jun.|page=87 |date=1805 }}</ref>
|
|- 
| '''[[1805 North Carolina gubernatorial election|North Carolina]]'''<br><small>(election by legislature)</small>
| 25 November 1805<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Raleigh, (N. C.) November 25 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024710/1805-11-30/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=Virginia Argus |location=Richmond, VA |date=30 November 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Raleigh, Dec 2. |url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82015220/1805-12-14/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=The Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state |location=Augusta, GA |date=14 December 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref>
|bgcolor="lightgrey"| [[James Turner (North Carolina politician)|James Turner]]
| Democratic-Republican
| Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory
| '''[[Nathaniel Alexander (governor)|Nathaniel Alexander]]''' (Democratic-Republican), 108 votes<br>[[Benjamin Williams]] (Federalist), 66 votes{{efn|Some sources give Williams' total as 65. The result given here is that given in the North Carolina Legislative Papers.}}<br>Joseph Taylor (Democratic-Republican), 3 votes<br>Little, 1 vote<br>More, 1 vote<br>Whitfield, 1 vote<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=274300 |title=NC Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=North Carolina 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/0k225c47p }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher= North Carolina Legislature |work= North Carolina Digital Collections |title=Balloting for Governor |series= Balloting: November-December 1805 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll36/id/74419/rec/3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Broussard |first=James H. |date=1978 |title=The Southern Federalists, 1800-1816 |url=https://archive.org/details/southernfederali0000brou/ |location=Baton Rouge |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |page=219 |isbn=0-8071-0288-1 }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 Ohio gubernatorial election|Ohio]]'''
| 8 October 1805
| '''[[Edward Tiffin]]'''
| Democratic-Republican
| Re-elected, 4,783 (100.00%){{efn|Most sources agree on this result, and one source states that this is the result declared in the General Assembly.<ref>{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=William A. |date=1899 |title=Ohio Statesmen and Annals of Progress, from the Year 1788 to the Year 1900 |volume=I |chapter=Fourth Legislative Session, 1805-1806 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/ohiostatesmenann00taylrich/page/n51/mode/1up |location=Columbus, Ohio |publisher=Press of the Westbote Co., State Printers |page=46 }}</ref> This result can be achieved by taking the results from [[Belmont County, Ohio|Belmont]], [[Butler County, Ohio|Butler]], [[Columbiana County, Ohio|Columbiana]], [[Fairfield County, Ohio|Fairfield]], [[Franklin County, Ohio|Franklin]], [[Highland County, Ohio|Highland]], and [[Ross County, Ohio|Ross]], [[Greene County, Ohio|Greene]], [[Jefferson County, Ohio|Jefferson]], [[Scioto County, Ohio|Scioto]], [[Warren County, Ohio|Warren]], and [[Washington County, Ohio|Washington]], [[Gallia County, Ohio|Gallia]], and [[Muskingum County, Ohio|Muskingum]] counties only. A New Nation Votes includes returns from [[Adams County, Ohio|Adams]], [[Athens County, Ohio|Athens]], [[Clermont County, Ohio|Clermont]], [[Hamilton County, Ohio|Hamilton]], and [[Montgomery County, Ohio|Montgomery]] counties, and records the result as Tiffin 6,321, [[Nathaniel Massie]] 171, Scattering 27.<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Ohio 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/jq085k039 }}</ref> It is further recorded that Tiffin received 379 votes in [[Trumbull County, Ohio|Trumbull County]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Charles |first=Whittlesey |author-link=Charles Whittlesey (geologist) |date=1867 |title=Early History of Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5j96hc0n&view=1up&seq=425 |chapter=Chapter 17 |location=Cleveland, Ohio |publisher=Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., Printers |page=405 }}</ref>}}{{efn|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.{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}<ref>{{cite journal |last=Smucker |first=Isaac |date=October 1892 |title=Ohio's Early Governors - Edward Tiffin |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89102493533&view=1up&seq=788 |journal=The National Magazine |volume=XVI |issue=6 |publisher=The National History Company |location=New York |pages=672–675 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Congressional Record: containing the Proceedings and Debates of the Fifty-Fourth Congress, Second Session |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5G5xZ70IdoC&pg=PA1271 |volume=XXIX |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |page=1271 |date=1897 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bell, Jr. |first=Wm. |author-link=William Bell Jr. (politician) |date=1876 |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor of the State of Ohio, including the Statistical Report to the General Assembly, for the Year 1875 |chapter=Official Vote of Ohio for Governor, 1806 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportofse1875ohio/page/16/mode/2up |location=Columbus |publisher=Nevins & Myers, State Printers |page=16 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=1906 |title=Vote for State Officers, Members of the General Assembly, Judges of the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts and County Officers polled in the several counties of the State of Ohio at the Annual Election held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday, being the seventh day of November, 1905 |chapter=Votes cast for President, Governor and Secretary of State at the Presidential and State elections from 1803 to 1905, inclusive |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/ohioelectionsta01statgoog/page/n3/mode/1up |location=Springfield, Ohio |publisher=The Springfield Publishing Company, State Printers |page=3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Thad H. |author-link=Thad H. Brown |date=1924 |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Ohio for the Year Ending June 30, 1923 |chapter=Votes cast for President, Governor and Secretary of State at the Presidential and State elections from 1803 to 1922, inclusive |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437010542252&view=1up&seq=262 |location=Springfield, Ohio |publisher=The Kelly Springfield Printing Company |page=252 }}</ref>}}<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=94240 |title=OH Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=244-245}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=72}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=457}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Utler |first=William T. |date=1942 |title=The History of the State of Ohio. The Frontier State: 1803-1825 |volume=II |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofstateof02witt/page/41/mode/1up |location=Columbus, OH |publisher=The Ohio Historical Society |pages=41–42 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=William Alexander |title=Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hXFKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA179 |location=North Charleston, SC |publisher=Createspace |page=179 |isbn=9783849673543 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Milligan |first=Fred J. |date=2003 |title=Ohio's Founding Fathers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CGoZoKlKuAC&pg=PA146 |publisher=iUniverse, Inc. |page=146 |isbn=0-595-29322-0 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Gilmore |first=William Edward |date=1897 |title=Life of Edward Tiffin, First Governor of Ohio |url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofedwardtiff00gilm/lifeofedwardtiff00gilm#page/98/mode/1up |location=Chillicothe, OH |publisher=Horney & Son |page=98 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Ratcliffe |first=Donald J. |date=1998 |title=Party spirit in a frontier republic: democratic politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 |location=Columbus, OH |publisher=Ohio State University Press |page=123 |hdl=1811/30229?show=full |isbn=0-8142-0775-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Philadelphia, November 4 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024710/1805-11-09/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=Virginia Argus |location=Richmond, VA |date=9 November 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Early Ohio history |url=https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll54/id/1114/ |work=The Van Wert times |location=Van Wert, Ohio |date=11 February 1887 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Exciting and close elections |url=https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll84/id/25701/ |work=The Western star |location=Lebanon, Ohio |date=14 September 1899 |page=1 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2013/08/ohio_gubernatorial_election_re_1.html |title=Ohio gubernatorial election results: 1805 to 2014 |last=Exner |first=Rich |date=26 August 2013 |website=Data Central |publisher=cleveland.com |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://mattdole.com/1788-gov |title=Ohio Governor election results 1788-1848 |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Ohio Politicals |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Barnes |first=Milton |author-link=Milton Barnes (politician) |date=1879 |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of State, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, including the Statistical Report to the General Assembly, for the Year 1878 |chapter=Election Statistics of Ohio. Vote on Governor from 1803 to 1850, inclusive |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8V0tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA176 |location=Columbus |publisher=Nevins & Myers, State Printers |page=176 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Townsend |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Townsend (Ohio politician) |date=1882 |title=Annual Report of the Secretary of State, to the Governor of the State of Ohio, for the Year 1882 |chapter=Election Statistics of Ohio. Vote on Governor from 1803 to 1850, inclusive |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/annualreportofse1882ohio/page/176/mode/1up |location=Columbus |publisher=Myers Brothers, State Printers |page=176 }}</ref>
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|- {{Party shading/Independent (United States)}}
| '''[[1805 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election|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%){{efn|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.}}<br>Scattering 395 (0.48%){{efn|The scattering votes were cast for "Samuel Snyder" in [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]].}}<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=42577 |title=PA Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=260-261}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=75}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=489}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Pennsylvania 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/bk128b00b }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, &c., &c. |volume=XVI |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.74677664&view=1up&seq=50 |location=Lancaster |publisher=John Burnside |pages=44–45 |date=1805 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Wilkes University]] |work=Pennsylvania Election Statistics: 1682-2006 |title=Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election Returns 1805 |series=Wilkes University Election Statistics Project |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= http://staffweb.wilkes.edu/harold.cox/gov/PaGov1805.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Peeling |first=James Hedley |date=1930 |title=Governor McKean and the Pennsylvania Jacobins (1799-1808) |journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=320–354 |jstor=20086750 }}</ref>
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| '''[[1805 Rhode Island gubernatorial election|Rhode Island]]'''
| 3 April 1805{{efn|Glashan records this election as taking place on 17 April.}}
| '''[[Arthur Fenner]]'''
| Democratic-Republican/[[Country Party (Rhode Island)|Country]]
| Re-elected. Returns lost.
| Seth Wheaton (Federalist)<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=237768 |title=RI Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=268-269}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=76}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=507}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Rhode Island 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/5m60qs682 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=J. Fred Parker, Secretary of State |date=1914 |title=Manual, with Rules and Orders, for the use of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island, 1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Ky8tAQAAMAAJ/page/n144/mode/1up |location=Providence, RI |publisher=E. L. Freeman Company, State Printers |page=107 }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 Tennessee gubernatorial election|Tennessee]]'''
| 1-2 August 1805
| '''[[John Sevier]]'''
| Democratic-Republican
| Re-elected, 10,293 (63.74%){{efn|A New Nation Votes states that the result per the Tennessee Senate Journal was Sevier 10,393, Roane 5,909.}}
| [[Archibald Roane]] (Democratic-Republican), 5,855 (36.26%){{efn|Dubin and OurCampaigns give Roane's total as 5,795.}}<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=238443 |title=TN Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=294-295}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=79}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=550}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Tennessee 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/mp48sd05b }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Charles A. |date=1890 |title=The Official and Political Manual of the State of Tennessee |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0r0ZAAAAYAAJ/page/n181/mode/2up |location=Nashville, TN |publisher=Marshall & Bruce, Stationers |page=169 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Corlew |first=Robert E. |date=1990 |title=Tennessee, a short history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9McNQm27VmUC&pg=PA135 |location=Knoxville, TN |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |page=135 |isbn=0-87049-646-8 }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 Vermont gubernatorial election|Vermont]]'''
| 3 September 1805
| '''[[Isaac Tichenor]]'''
| Federalist 
| Re-elected, 8,683 (60.87%){{efn|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".}}
| [[Jonathan Robinson (American politician)|Jonathan Robinson]] (Democratic-Republican), 5,054 (35.43%)<br>Scattering 527 (3.69%)<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=144077 |title=VT Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>{{Sfn|Glashan|1979|pp=314-315}}{{Sfn|Congressional Quarterly|1998|p=83}}{{Sfn|Dubin|2003}}{{Sfn|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977|p=606}}<ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Vermont 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/vt150k722 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Journals of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, at their session begun and holden at Danville, in the County of Caledonia, on the second Thursday of October A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Five |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433011264920&view=1up&seq=12 |location=Windsor |publisher=Alden Spooner, Printer to the State |page=6 |date=1806 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Walton |editor-first=E. P. |date=1877 |title=Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont |volume=V |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/recordsofgoverno05verm/page/58/mode/1up |location=Montpelier |publisher=Steam Press of J. & J. M. Poland |chapter=Record of the Governor and Council at the Session of the General Assembly at Danville, October 1805 |page=58 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://vtelectionarchive.sec.state.vt.us/elections/get_source_documentation/82826&ved=2ahUKEwjF4OzT4rnqAhVzmVwKHUtnASUQFjABegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw00fRDCkLseXU15Zy0hM-Vt |title=General Election Results: Governor |author=<!--Not stated--> |page=3 |website=Election Results Archive |publisher=Office of the Vermont Secretary of State |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Coolidge |first1=A. J. |last2=Mansfield |first2=J. B. |date=1860 |title=History and Description of New England: Vermont |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historydescrip00cool/page/965/mode/1up |location=Boston |publisher=Austin J. Coolidge |chapter=Governors and Gubernatorial Vote |page=965 }}</ref>
|- 
| '''[[1805 Virginia gubernatorial election|Virginia]]'''<br><small>(election by legislature)</small>
| 7 December 1805<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swem |first1=Earl G. |last2=Williams |first2=John W. |date=1918 |title=A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia 1776-1918 and of the Constitutional Conventions |chapter=Governors of Virginia, 1776-1918 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/registerofgenera00virg/page/n15/mode/2up |location=Richmond |publisher=Davis Bottom, Superintendent of Public Printing |page=ix }}</ref>{{efn|Encyclopedia Virginia records this election as taking place on 6 December.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Cabell_William_H_1772-1853#its2 |title=William H. Cabell (1772–1853) |author=Deal, John G. and the ''Dictionary of Virginia Biography'' |date=2 February 2018 |location=Charlottesville, VA |website=Encyclopedia Virginia |publisher=Virginia Humanities |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref>}}
|bgcolor="lightgrey"| [[John Page (Virginia politician)|John Page]]
| Democratic-Republican
| Term-limited, Democratic-Republican victory
| '''[[William H. Cabell]]''' (Democratic-Republican), 99 votes<br>Alexander MacRae, 90 votes<br><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=783330 |title=VA Governor, 1805 |publisher=Our Campaigns |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |publisher= [[Tufts University]] |work= Tufts Digital Collations and Archives |title=Virginia 1805 Governor |series= A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787–1825 |access-date= 16 August 2020 |url= https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/rx913q72s }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Washington City. Friday, December 13 |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045242/1805-12-13/ed-1/seq-2/ |work=The national intelligencer and Washington advertiser |location=Washington, D.C. |date=13 December 1805 |page=2 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Election of Governor |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024736/1805-12-10/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=The enquirer |location=Richmond, VA |date=10 December 1805 |page=3 |access-date=16 August 2020 }}</ref>
|}

== See also ==
*[[1805 United States elections]]

== References ==
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== Notes ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |last= Glashan |first= Roy R. |title= American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 |publisher= Meckler Books |location= Westport, CT |year= 1979 |isbn= 0-930466-17-9 }}
* {{cite book |title=Gubernatorial Elections, 1787-1997 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Congressional Quarterly Inc. |date=1998 |isbn=1-56802-396-0 | ref={{SfnRef|Congressional Quarterly|1998}}}}
* {{cite book |last=Dubin |first=Michael J. |title=United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1776-1860: The Official Results by State and County |publisher=McFarland |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-7864-1439-0 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina }}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Kallenbach |editor1-first=Joseph E. |editor2-last=Kallenbach |editor2-first=Jessamine S. |date=1977 |title=American State Governors, 1776-1976 |volume=I |location=Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. |publisher=Oceana Publications, Inc. |isbn=0-379-00665-0 |ref={{SfnRef|Kallenbach and Kallenbach|1977}}}}
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