1824 Louisiana gubernatorial election
The 1824 Louisiana gubernatorial election, was the fourth gubernatorial election to take place after Louisiana achieved statehood. Under Article III Sec 2 of the 1812 Constitution of the State of Louisiana the Governor was elected in two steps. On the first Monday in July, eligible voters went to the polls and voted. The returns were sent to the President of the Louisiana State Senate. On the second day of the session of the Louisiana State Legislature, the Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate met in joint session and voted between the top two candidates. The candidate who received a majority in General Assembly became governor.
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| Elections in Louisiana |
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Presidential Elections
U.S. Senate
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State elections by year
Gubernatorial
Lieutenant gubernatorial Attorney General |
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Results
Popular Vote[1]
| Candidate | Votes received | Percentage |
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| Henry S. Johnson | 2,846 | 43.64% |
| Jacques Villeré | 1,831 | 28.07% |
| Bernard de Marigny | 1,427 | 21.87% |
| Philemon Thomas | 236 | 3.62% |
| Thomas Butler | 184 | 2.82% |
| Total Vote | 6,524 | |
General Assembly Vote[1]
| Candidate | Votes received | Percentage |
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| Henry Johnson | 41 | 71.93% |
| Jacques Villeré | 16 | 28.07% |
| Total Vote | 57 | |
| Preceded by 1820 Louisiana gubernatorial election |
Louisiana gubernatorial elections | Succeeded by 1828 Louisiana gubernatorial election |
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gollark: 4703 somehow *does things* just because the law says it can, even though the law is just a human concept and only affects what humans do.
gollark: Really, one of the main things which makes (some) SCPs weird is that they take convenient abstractions/concepts and turn them into immutable physical laws, while our real universe just runs on... well, physics. 173 is affected by line of sight, even though this is just a thing humans do to reason about... looking at things. 005 is just a magic item which unlocks things, 048 is just a label we assign to things which somehow affects them.
gollark: Alternatively, the machine breaks, if it prefers simple changes - so I guess make it STUPIDLY redundant.
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References
- Jeanne Frois. 2006. Louisiana Almanac, 2006–2007 Edition. Gretna, La: Pelican Pub. Co. p.547
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