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title: "Why Did Jefferson and Burr Tie in 1800 if They Were Running on the Same Ticket?"  
description: "Why Did Jefferson and Burr Tie in 1800 if They Were Running on the Same Ticket?"  
author: "Jakub Kowalski"  
published: 2026-10-19  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117903/why-did-jefferson-and-burr-tie-in-1800-if-they-were-running-on-the-same-ticket  
category: "Mix Category"  
tags: ["us history", "Electoral College", "us constitution"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why Did Jefferson and Burr Tie in 1800 if They Were Running on the Same Ticket?

I understand that Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were the Democratic-Republican candidates in the **US presidential election of 1800**, with Jefferson intended for president and Burr for vice president. Yet both received 73 electoral votes, and the House had to choose the president.

What I’m missing is how electors recorded their choices before the Twelfth Amendment. If the party already had different roles in mind for the two candidates, why didn’t the electoral votes reflect that?

Was the tie mainly a coordination failure within the party, a consequence of the original constitutional voting system, or both? I’d also like to understand how the House’s voting procedure differed from simply counting each representative’s vote individually.


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