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USA 1796 Presidential Election

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

One new State is added in this map, with the admission of the Southwest Territory as the State of Tennessee (TN).

The 1796 election was the first truly contested Presidential election. Incumbent Federalist Vice President John Adams (of MA) ran with former South Carolina Governor Thomas Pinckney as his running mate, against Republican former Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson (of VA) with U.S. Senator from new York Aaron Burr as his running mate.

Due to the different manner that the Electoral College elected the Vice President prior to the passage of the 12th amendment in 1804, Thomas Jefferson ended up being elected John Adams's Vice President, instead of Adams's running mate Thomas Pinckney.

The States are divided into two alliances based off of which candidate received the most electoral votes for President in the 1796 election:

John Adams, Federalists - DE, NJ, CT, MA, MD, NH, NY, RI, VT
Thomas Jefferson, Republicans - PA, GA, SC, VA, NC, KY, TN

Two non-state territories which did not participate in the election are not part of any alliance:
Northwest 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.

DE: 1 City
PA: 13 Cities
NJ: 5 Cities
GA: 2 Cities
CT: 7 Cities
MA: 14 Cities
MD: 8 Cities
SC: 6 Cities
NH: 4 Cities
VA: 19 Cities
NY: 10 Cities
NC: 10 Cities
RI: 2 Cities
VT: 2 Cities
KY: 2 Cities
TN: 1 City (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 1796 (a couple did change between 1792 and 1796).

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