To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 8 April 1804
From Gideon Granger
Washington Apl. 8th. 1804. Sunday Afternoon.
Dr Sir.
I have this moment received returns of the election in New Hampshire for 171 Towns. They are as follows—
| For Langdon 11,973. | Gilman 11,633 | ||
| There are 28 Towns from which no returns have been recd. but as so general a change has taken place we may safely conclude we have not lost ground The Stood last year as follows | 493 | 626 | |
| 12 466 | 12,259 | ||
| 12 259. | |||
| 207 | ballance in | ||
favor of Langdon. We may therefore rest assurd he is elected and with him a Republican Legislature.
With the highest Esteem Your Sincere friend
Gidn Granger
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “The President”; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Apr. and so recorded in SJL.
Granger’s predicted outcome of the election in new hampshire was only half correct. In the final tally, John Langdon fell short in his bid to unseat Federalist incumbent John Taylor Gilman as governor by only 150 votes out of almost 25,000 cast. Republicans, however, won a majority in the state legislature for the first time. Langdon would be elected speaker of the state house of representatives in June (Concord Courier of New Hampshire, 13 June 1804; Keene New-Hampshire Sentinel, 16 June 1804).