1840 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1840 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of the United States (1837-1845).svg
  1836 November 2, 1840 1844  
  IL
KY  
  William Henry Harrison crop.jpg Martin Van Buren circa 1837 crop.jpg
Nominee William Henry Harrison Martin Van Buren
Party Whig Democratic
Home state Ohio New York
Running mate John Tyler N/A [a]
Electoral vote90
Popular vote65,23751,691
Percentage55.0%45.0%

Indiana Presidential Election Results 1840.svg
County Results

President before election

Martin Van Buren
Democratic

Elected President

William Henry Harrison
Whig

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 2, 1840 as part of the 1840 United States presidential election. [1] The Whig ticket of the former major general William Henry Harrison and the former U.S. senator from Virginia John Tyler defeated the incumbent Democratic president Martin Van Buren. [2] Harrison defeated Van Buren in the national election with 234 electoral votes. [3]

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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.

1840 United States presidential election in Indiana [2]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Whig William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
63,237 55.01 Decrease2.svg 0.96
Democratic Martin Van Buren
N/A [a]
51,69144.96Increase2.svg 0.93
Liberty James G. Birney
Thomas Earle
300.03Increase2.svg 0.03
Total votes114,958 100.00

Results

1840 United States presidential election in Indiana [2]
PartyCandidateVotes
Whig James H. Cravens 63,237
Whig John W. Payne63,237
Whig Caleb B. Smith 63,237
Whig Richard W. Thompson 63,235
Whig Joseph L. White 63,235
Whig William Herod 63,227
Whig Joseph G. Marshall63,225
Whig Samuel C. Sample 63,217
Whig McCarty Jonathan63,216
Democratic William Hendricks 51,691
Democratic Robert Dale Owen 51,690
Democratic Thomas J. Henley 51,688
Democratic Andrew Kennedy 51,688
Democratic John L. Robinson 51,687
Democratic William J. Peaslet51,676
Democratic John M. Lenon51,642
Democratic Henry Secrest51,494
Democratic Tilghman Howard 51,339
Unpledged George W. Ewing351
Unpledged George Boon196
Unpledged J. M. Simmons51
Liberty Lesmon Basye30
Liberty James Clayton30
Liberty Cyrus Hamilton30
Liberty Thomas Hicklin30
Liberty Thomas Johns30
Liberty Thomas Maxwell30
Liberty William Smith30
Liberty Samuel Stephenson30
Liberty Daniel Worth30
Total
≈114,958

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 No candidate was formally nominated.
  1. Dubin 2002, p. xvi.
  2. 1 2 3 Riker & Thornbrough 1960, pp. 29–37.
  3. "1840 Electoral College Results". National Archives. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
  4. Lampi n.d.; Ratcliffe 2014, p. 57.

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