1828 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1828 United States presidential election in Indiana
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  1824 November 3, 1828 1832  
  Unsuccessful 1824.jpg John Quincy Adams 1828 (cropped2).jpg
Nominee Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams
Party Democratic National Republican
Home state Tennessee Massachusetts
Running mate John C. Calhoun Richard Rush
Electoral vote50
Popular vote22,14016,978
Percentage56.6%43.4%

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County Results

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]

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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]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
22,140 56.60 Increase2.svg 9.66
National Republican John Quincy Adams
Richard Rush
16,97843.40Increase2.svg 23.90
Total votes39,118 100.00

Results

1828 United States presidential election in Indiana [1]
PartyCandidateVotes
Democratic Benjamin V. Beckes22,140
Democratic Ratliff Boon 22,122
Democratic Jesse B. Durham22,114
Democratic Ross Smiley22,099
Democratic William Lowe22,033
National Republican Isaac Montgomery16,978
National Republican Joseph Bartholomew 16,973
National Republican Amaziah Morgan16,956
National Republican Joseph Orr16,934
National Republican John Watts16,915
Total
≈39,118

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 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.

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