1832 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1832 United States presidential election in Indiana
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  1828 November 5, 1832 1836  
  Andrew jackson head (cropped 4x5).jpg Henry Clay (copy after Edward Dalton Marchant) (cropped).jpg
Nominee Andrew Jackson Henry Clay
Party Democratic National Republican
Home state Tennessee Kentucky
Running mate Martin Van Buren John Sergeant
Electoral vote90
Popular vote31,40625,238
Percentage55.4%44.5%

Indiana Presidential Election Results 1832.svg
County Results

President before election

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

Elected President

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 5, 1832, as part of the 1832 United States presidential election. The Democratic ticket of the incumbent president Andrew Jackson and the U.S. minister to Great Britain Martin Van Buren defeated the National Republican ticket of the junior U.S. senator from Kentucky Henry Clay and the former U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district John Sergeant. [1] Jackson defeated Clay in the national election with 219 electoral votes. [2]

Contents

General election

Summary

Indiana chose nine 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.

1832 United States presidential election in Indiana [1]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
31,406 55.42 Decrease2.svg 1.18
National Republican Henry Clay
John Sergeant
25,23844.53Increase2.svg 1.13
Anti-Masonic William Wirt
Amos Ellmaker
270.05Increase2.svg 0.05
Total votes56,671 100.00

Results

1832 United States presidential election in Indiana [1]
PartyCandidateVotes
Democratic James Blake31,406
Democratic George Boon31,404
Democratic Marks Crume31,389
Democratic Nathan B. Palmer31,387
Democratic Arthur Patterson31,387
Democratic John Ketcham 31,387
Democratic Alexander S. Burnett31,386
Democratic Walter Armstrong31,377
Democratic Nathan B. Palmer31,260
Democratic Arthur Patterson31,387
National Republican Stephen Ludlow25,238
National Republican John Hawkins25,237
National Republican Jacob Kuykendall25,237
National Republican Abel Lomax25,237
National Republican John I. Neely25,237
National Republican Walter Wilson25,237
National Republican Sylvanus Everts25,236
National Republican Dennis Pennington 25,236
National Republican Samuel Henderson 25,233
Anti-Masonic Daniel Bardon [a] 27
Anti-Masonic Aaron Davis27
Anti-Masonic Cyrus Douglass27
Anti-Masonic Aaron Farmer27
Anti-Masonic Andrew House [b] 27
Anti-Masonic David Jewett [c] 27
Anti-Masonic David G. Mitchell27
Anti-Masonic John Morgan27
Anti-Masonic Hugh Morse27
Total
56,671

Results by county

This table compares the result for the most popular Democratic and National Republican 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.

CountyAndrew Jackson
Democratic
Henry Clay
National Republican
William Wirt
Anti-Masonic
MarginTotal
VotesPercentVotesPercentVotesPercentVotesPercent
Allen 12656.259843.752812.50224
Bartholomew 48956.4737242.9650.5811713.51866
Boone 21663.3412536.669126.69341
Carroll 25859.8617340.148519.72431
Cass 16251.4315348.5792.86315
Clark 1,05867.8250232.1855635.641,560
Clay 23086.473613.5319472.93266
Clinton 25258.8817641.127617.76428
Crawford 22257.2216642.785614.43388
Daviess 36353.5431546.46487.08678
Dearborn 1,19849.961,19749.9230.1310.042,398
Decatur 40542.8653957.0410.11-134-14.18945
Delaware 19763.7511236.258527.51309
Dubois 19169.968230.0410939.93273
Elkhart 12968.256031.756936.51189
Fayette 76250.0076250.0000.001,524
Floyd 62558.9143641.0918917.811,061
Fountain 92062.2055937.8036124.401,479
Franklin 73848.1479051.5350.33-52-3.391,533
Gibson 44651.8641448.14323.72860
Grant 3450.753349.2511.4967
Greene 47172.3518027.6529144.70651
Hamilton 16639.8125160.19-85-20.38417
Hancock 31063.3917936.6113126.79489
Harrison 60358.6042641.4017717.201,029
Hendricks 48356.3637443.6410912.72857
Henry 58343.1276956.88-186-13.761,352
Jackson 53362.4132137.5921224.82854
Jefferson 73051.0170048.99302.101,430
Jennings 31746.7635552.3660.88-38-5.60678
Johnson 65370.2227029.0370.7538341.18930
Knox 48246.1656153.84-79-7.571,043
LaGrange 4454.323745.6878.6481
LaPorte 4643.815956.19-13-12.38105
Lawrence 87770.4436829.5650940.881,245
Madison 28756.9421743.067013.89504
Marion 77148.5581751.45-46-2.901,588
Martin 20268.949131.0611137.88293
Monroe 81177.5323522.4757655.071,046
Montgomery 79655.4763944.5315710.941,435
Morgan 52255.5941744.4110511.18939
Orange 61562.7636537.2425025.51980
Owen 32253.5827946.42437.15601
Parke 88262.0354037.9734224.051,422
Perry [d] 17043.0422556.96-55-13.92395
Pike 18651.6717448.33123.33360
Posey 62367.2830332.7232034.56926
Putnam 95065.8449334.1645731.671,443
Randolph [e] 19235.2335364.77-161-29.54545
Ripley 39346.9544453.05-51-6.09837
Rush 92853.8379646.171327.661,724
St. Joseph 12149.5912350.41-2-0.82244
Scott 34266.6717133.3317133.33513
Shelby 73360.1848539.8224820.361,218
Spencer 13962.338437.675524.66223
Sullivan 64880.2016019.8048860.40808
Switzerland 52049.2953550.71-15-1.421,055
Tippecanoe [f] 76555.1662244.8414310.311,387
Union 56846.9064353.10-75-6.191,211
Vanderburgh 10237.5017062.50-68-25.00272
Vermillion 54555.9043044.1011511.79975
Vigo 42540.0263759.98-212-19.961,062
Warren 26646.9130153.09-35-6.17567
Warrick 35474.5312125.4723349.05475
Washington 1,08863.5962336.4146527.181,711
Wayne 1,07234.552,03165.45-959-30.903,103
TOTAL31,65755.3825,47444.57270.056,18310.8257,158

See also

Notes

  1. Also called David Bardon. [4]
  2. Also called Andrew Housh. [4]
  3. Also called David Jerrett or David Spencett. [4]
  4. Including rejected returns from Anderson, Clark, and Union townships.
  5. Including rejected returns from Ward and Washington townships.
  6. Including rejected ballots.
  1. 1 2 3 Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 14–20.
  2. "1832 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
  3. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.
  4. 1 2 3 Riker & Thornbrough 1960, p. 20n1.

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