1824 United States presidential election in Indiana

1824 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Andrew Jackson Henry Clay John Quincy Adams Party Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Democratic-Republican Home state Tennessee Kentucky Massachusetts Running mate John C. Calhoun Nathan Sanford John C. Calhoun Electoral vote 5 0 0 Popular vote 7,444 5,321 3,093 Percentage 46.9% 33.5% 19.5%

County Results Jackson   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Clay   30–40%   40–50%   50–60%   60–70%   80–90%   90–100% Adams   40–50%   50–60% Unknown/No vote

President before election James Monroe Democratic-Republican Elected President John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 8, 1824, as part of the 1824 United States presidential election. The junior U.S. senator from Tennessee Andrew Jackson defeated the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Henry Clay and the U.S. secretary of state John Quincy Adams. ^[1] All three candidates represented the Democratic-Republican Party. No candidate won a majority of the electoral vote in the national election; Adams won the 1825 contingent election conducted by the United States House of Representatives. ^[2]

General election

Summary

Indiana chose five electors on a statewide general ticket. Nineteenth-century election laws required voters to vote directly for members of the Electoral College rather than for president. This sometimes resulted in small differences in the number of votes cast for electors pledged to the same presidential candidate, if some voters did not vote for all the electors nominated by a party. ^[3] This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.

1824 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic-Republican	Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun	7,444	46.94
	Democratic-Republican	Henry Clay Nathan Sanford	5,321	33.5
	Democratic-Republican	John Quincy Adams John C. Calhoun	3,093	19.50
Total votes			15,858	100.00

Results

1824 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[4]

Ticket		Candidate	Votes
	Jackson	Jonathan McCarty	7,444
	Jackson	John Carr	7,443
	Jackson	Elias McNamee	7,427
	Jackson	Samuel Milroy	7,423
	Jackson	David Robb	7,418
	Clay	James Rariden	7,321
	Clay	William W. Wick	7,317
	Clay	Moses Tabbs	7,316
	Clay	Martson G. Clark	7,313
	Clay	Walter Wilson	7,311
	Adams	David H. Maxwell	3,093
	Adams	Christopher Harrison	3,092
	Adams	Jesse Lynch Holman	3,091
	Adams	Isaac Blackford	3,083
	Adams	James Scott	3,071
	None	David Paten	1
Total			≈15,858

Results by county

This table compares the result for the most popular Jackson, Clay, and Adams electors in each county. The totals presented thus differ slightly from the statewide results summary, which compares the results for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket statewide. The margin is the difference between the first and second highest-voted tickets.

County	Andrew Jackson Democratic-Republican		Henry Clay Democratic-Republican		John Quincy Adams Democratic-Republican		Margin		Total
	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent	Votes	Percent
Allen	11	15.94	44	63.76	14	20.29	30	43.48	69
Bartholomew	96	44.65	99	46.05	20	9.30	3	1.40	215
Clark	589	60.22	156	15.95	233	23.82	356	3.64	978
Crawford	34	27.87	45	36.88	43	35.24	2	1.64	122
Daviess	114	50.67	92	40.89	19	8.44	22	9.78	225
Dearborn	668	57.73	122	10.54	367	31.72	301	26.02	1,157
Decatur	55	38.19	72	50.00	17	11.80	17	11.80	144
Dubois	32	54.24	18	30.51	9	15.25	14	23.73	59
Fayette	355	49.03	277	38.26	92	12.71	78	10.77	724
Floyd	216	56.25	50	13.02	118	30.73	98	25.52	384
Franklin	471	50.43	244	26.12	219	23.44	27	2.89	934
Gibson	133	41.96	169	53.31	15	4.73	36	11.36	317
Greene	28	56.00	10	20.00	12	24.00	16	32.00	50
Hamilton	4	8.89	31	68.89	10	22.22	21	46.67	45
Harrison	185	41.48	129	28.92	132	29.60	53	11.88	446
Hendricks	6	16.22	30	81.08	1	2.70	24	6.49	37
Henry	42	26.25	96	60.00	22	13.75	54	33.75	160
Jackson	176	68.75	23	8.98	57	22.26	119	46.48	256
Jefferson	298	40.82	371	50.82	61	8.36	73	10.00	730
Jennings	131	43.96	76	25.50	91	30.54	40	13.42	298
Johnson	28	35.00	38	47.50	14	17.50	10	12.5	80
Knox	171	35.26	280	57.73	34	7.01	109	22.47	485
Lawrence	228	76.00	44	14.67	28	9.33	184	61.33	300
Madison	6	9.38	54	84.38	4	6.25	48	75.00	64
Marion	99	30.18	213	64.94	16	4.88	114	34.76	328
Martin	44	39.28	30	26.78	38	33.93	6	5.36	112
Monroe	149	54.98	71	26.20	51	18.82	78	28.78	271
Montgomery	40	35.09	57	50.00	17	14.91	17	14.91	114
Morgan	71	43.29	83	50.61	10	6.07	12	7.32	164
Orange	213	50.84	145	34.61	61	14.56	68	16.23	419
Owen	34	27.64	77	62.60	12	9.76	43	34.96	123
Parke	45	27.61	111	68.10	7	4.29	66	40.49	163
Perry	5	19.23	12	46.15	9	34.62	3	11.54	26
Pike	62	44.93	73	52.90	3	2.17	9	6.52	138
Posey	173	41.79	228	55.07	13	3.14	55	13.28	414
Putnam	27	32.53	31	37.35	25	30.12	4	4.82	83
Randolph	62	43.97	7	4.96	72	51.06	10	7.09	141
Ripley	119	50.00	102	42.86	33	13.86	17	7.14	238
Rush	119	49.17	108	44.63	15	6.20	11	4.54	242
Scott	123	52.79	84	36.05	26	11.16	39	16.74	233
Shelby	144	56.03	104	40.47	9	3.50	40	15.56	257
Spencer	10	20.83	33	68.75	5	10.42	23	47.92	48
Sullivan	104	29.80	175	50.14	21	6.02	71	20.34	349
Switzerland	161	54.21	108	36.36	28	9.43	53	17.84	297
Union	254	53.59	135	28.48	85	17.93	119	25.10	474
Vanderburgh	32	26.45	56	46.28	33	27.27	23	19.01	121
Vermillion	2	2.35	79	92.94	4	4.71	75	88.24	85
Vigo	54	16.62	227	69.85	44	13.54	173	53.23	325
Warrick	54	49.09	45	40.91	11	10.00	9	8.18	110
Washington	669	67.17	55	5.52	272	27.31	397	39.86	996
Wayne	501	37.17	306	22.70	541	40.13	40	2.97	1,348
TOTAL	7,447	46.94	5,325	33.56	3,093	19.50	2,122	13.38	15,865

Maps

• 
  Result for the most popular Jackson elector by county
• 
  Result for the most popular Clay elector by county
• 
  Result for the most popular Adams elector by county

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

References

1. Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 4–9.
2. "1824 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
3. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.
4. Lampi 2012.

Bibliography

• "1824 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
• Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
• Lampi, Philip J. (January 11, 2012). "Indiana 1824 Electoral College". A New Nation Votes. American Antiquarian Society. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
• Ratcliffe, Donald J. (Spring 2014). "Popular Preferences in the Presidential Election of 1824". Journal of the Early Republic. 34 (1): 45–77. JSTOR   24486931.
• Riker, Dorothy; Thornbrough, Gayle, eds. (1960). Indiana Election Returns, 1816–1851. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau.