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USA 1792 Presidential Election

Second in a series of maps of the US States (and Territories) of each Presidential Election Year.

New States added in this map are Vermont (VT) and Kentucky (separated from VA).
New Territories on this map are the Southwest Territory (modern Tennessee, ceded by NC), and the District of Columbia (land ceded by VA & MD).
The small, Federally owned territory of the "Erie Triangle" that was present on the 1788 map was also purchased and annexed by Pennsylvania prior to the Election of 1792.

George Washington was unanimously re-elected in 1792, however, the bid for Vice President was contested between incumbent Federalist Vice President John Adams and Republican Governor of New York George Clinton. The pre-made alliances therefore are representative of which candidate each state primarily supported for Vice President.

John Adams, Federalists - DE, PA, NJ, CT, MA, MD, SC, NH, RI, VT
George Clinton, Republicans - GA, VA, NY, NC

Kentucky (KY) is not included in either alliance, since their electors cast their second votes for Republican Thomas Jefferson, instead of Adams or Clinton.

Additionally, there are three territories, which likewise are not part of any alliance:
Northwest Territory
Southwest Territory
District of Columbia

I personally recommend disabling New Nation revolts in Godmode.
If you want to play with the presidential election result, as a primary factor, I would recommend disabling alliance changing in Godmode as well.

The number of cities that each state has is based off of how many seats in the House of Representative were apportioned to the States following the Census of 1790.
Numbers in parantheticals indicate how many cities were gained or lost compared to the previous Election Map.

DE: 1 City
PA: 13 Cities (+5)
NJ: 5 Cities (+1)
GA: 2 Cities (-1)
CT: 7 Cities (+2)
MA: 14 Cities (+6)
MD: 8 Cities (+2)
SC: 6 Cities (+1)
NH: 4 Cities (+1)
VA: 19 Cities (+9)
NY: 10 Cities (+4)
NC: 10 Cities (+5)
RI: 2 Cities (+1)
VT: 2 Cities (New)
KY: 2 Cities (New)

Non-State Territories get one city each for their capital. This is intentional and by design, since the territories tended to be lower population over very large areas. This makes those regions easy to capitulate, which was the desired effect.

Regarding the names of cities, the capitals of the states are based off of what the actual capitals of those states were in 1792 (a few did change since 1788). For the remaining cities I did my best to find the most populous cities in those states at the time. This was very difficult for the southern States particularly, because of the incomplete census data from 1790 that does not list the Southern States populations by city or town, but by only by county, so I did my best. (Virginia and North Carolina were very frustrating).

If anyone sees this and can find better information about the cities with the largest populations in each state, please feel free to comment or inform me, and I will update this to have more accurate information in that regard.

The shape and terrain for this map is based off of the province map from Victoria 2. Likewise the shapes of the states are mostly drawn from that, with some modifications that I made to make them more accurate in some areas, and to reflect period-specific borders.

Size: 460x378 (173880px)
Nations: 18