1836 United States presidential election in Indiana

1836 United States presidential election in Indiana

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Nominee William Henry Harrison Martin Van Buren Party Whig Democratic Home state Ohio New York Running mate Francis Granger Richard M. Johnson Electoral vote 9 0 Popular vote 41,281 32,478 Percentage 56.0% 44.0%

County Results Harrison   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Van Buren   50–60%   60–70%   70–80% Unknown/No vote

President before election Andrew Jackson Democratic Elected President Martin Van Buren Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 7, 1836, as part of the 1836 United States presidential election. ^[1] The Whig ticket of the former major general William Henry Harrison and the U.S. representative from New York's 26th congressional district Francis Granger defeated the Democratic ticket of the incumbent vice president Martin Van Buren and the U.S. representative from Kentucky's 13th congressional district Richard Mentor Johnson. ^[2] Van Buren defeated Harrison in the national election with 170 electoral votes. ^[3]

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. ^[4] This table compares the votes for the most popular elector pledged to each ticket, to give an approximate sense of the statewide result.

1836 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Whig	William Henry Harrison Francis Granger	41,281	55.97	11.44
	Democratic	Martin Van Buren Richard Mentor Johnson	32,478	44.03	11.39
Total votes			73,759	100.00

Results

1836 United States presidential election in Indiana ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes
	Whig	John G. Clendenin	41,281
	Whig	Marston G. Clark	41,280
	Whig	Milton Stapp	41,278
	Whig	Abraham P. Andrew	41,276
	Whig	Albert Smith White	41,276
	Whig	Achilles Williams	41,276
	Whig	Hiram Decker	41,275
	Whig	Enoch McCarty	41,275
	Whig	Austin W. Morris	41,271
	Democratic	John Myers	32,978
	Democratic	Jesse Jackson	32,977
	Democratic	George W. Moore	32,977
	Democratic	Thomas C. Stewart	32,977
	Democratic	William White	32,975
	Democratic	Rockhill William	32,975
	Democratic	Marinus Willett	32,973
	Democratic	Jonathan Williams	32,971
	Democratic	Elisha Long	32,967
Total			≈73,759

See also

• United States presidential elections in Indiana

Notes

1. "Presidential Elections". Weekly Messenger. November 12, 1836.
2. Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 21–28.
3. "1836 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
4. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.

Bibiliography

• "1836 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.