1832 United States presidential election in Vermont

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1832 United States presidential election in Vermont
Flag of Vermont (1804-1837).svg
  1828 November 2 – December 5, 1832 1836  
  Attorney General William Wirt.jpg Henry Clay (copy after Edward Dalton Marchant).jpg Andrew jackson head.jpg
Nominee William Wirt Henry Clay Andrew Jackson
Party Anti-Masonic National Republican Democratic
Home state Maryland Kentucky Tennessee
Running mate Amos Ellmaker John Sergeant Martin Van Buren
Electoral vote700
Popular vote13,10611,1527,870
Percentage40.79%34.71%24.50%

Vermont Presidential Election Results 1832.svg
County Results

President before election

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

Elected President

Andrew Jackson
Democratic

The 1832 United States presidential election in Vermont took place between November 2 and December 5, 1832, as part of the 1832 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Contents

Vermont voted for the Anti-Masonic Party candidate, William Wirt, over the National Republican candidate, Henry Clay, and the Democratic Party candidate, Andrew Jackson. Vermont was the only state in the country that Wirt carried in 1832, by a margin of 6.08%. As of 2017, Wirt's performance remains the best-ever by a third-party presidential candidate in any Northeastern state, [1] constitutes the solitary occasion a third-party candidate has carried any New England state, [lower-alpha 1] and the only time a person from Maryland [lower-alpha 2] has ever won an electoral vote for the presidency from pledged electors. (Spiro Agnew of Maryland would in 1968 and 1972 win the electoral vote for the vice presidency.) [2]

While Vermont was the only state that voted for Wirt, it would only prove to be his second strongest in terms of popular vote percentage, the first being Pennsylvania with 42.04 percentage points. In Pennsylvania, no ticket for Henry Clay was run, allowing Wirt to consolidate the Anti-Jackson vote. [3]

Results

1832 United States presidential election in Vermont [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Anti-Masonic William Wirt 13,10640.79%7
National Republican Henry Clay 11,15234.71%0
Democratic Andrew Jackson (incumbent)7,87024.50%0
Totals32,128100.0%7

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Notes

  1. The only subsequent occasion a third-party candidate has carried any indisputably "Northeastern" state was when former President Theodore Roosevelt won Pennsylvania under the Progressive Party banner in 1912, although another ex-President, Millard Fillmore, carried border state Maryland (sometimes classified as Northeastern) in 1856 under the "Know Nothing" banner.
  2. Wirt was not on the ballot at all in his home state.

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References

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  2. ‘What States do Presidents Come From?’
  3. "1832 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  4. "1832 Presidential General Election Results - Vermont". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved April 12, 2013.