1828 United States presidential election in Indiana

1828 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams Party Democratic National Republican Home state Tennessee Massachusetts Running mate John C. Calhoun Richard Rush Electoral vote 5 0 Popular vote 22,140 16,978 Percentage 56.6% 43.4%

County Results Jackson   50–60%   60–70%   70–80%   80–90% Adams   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Unknown/No vote

President before election John Quincy Adams National Republican Elected President Andrew Jackson Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 3, 1828, as part of the 1828 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the former U.S. senator from Tennessee Andrew Jackson and the incumbent vice president John C. Calhoun defeated National Republican ticket of the incumbent president John Quincy Adams and the U.S. secretary of the treasury Richard Rush. ^[1] Jackson defeated Adams in the national election with 178 electoral votes. ^[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.

1828 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Andrew Jackson John C. Calhoun	22,140	56.60	9.66
	National Republican	John Quincy Adams Richard Rush	16,978	43.40	23.90
Total votes			39,118	100.00

Results

1828 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[1]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Democratic	Benjamin V. Beckes	22,140
	Democratic	Ratliff Boon	22,122
	Democratic	Jesse B. Durham	22,114
	Democratic	Ross Smiley	22,099
	Democratic	William Lowe	22,033
	National Republican	Isaac Montgomery	16,978
	National Republican	Joseph Bartholomew	16,973
	National Republican	Amaziah Morgan	16,956
	National Republican	Joseph Orr	16,934
	National Republican	John Watts	16,915
Total			≈39,118

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 10–13.
2. "1828 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
3. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.

Bibiliography

• "1828 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
• Lampi, Philip J. (n.d.). "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.