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Elections in Indiana |
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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]
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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Whig | William Henry Harrison John Tyler | 63,237 | 55.01 | ![]() | |
Democratic | Martin Van Buren N/A [a] | 51,691 | 44.96 | ![]() | |
Liberty | James G. Birney Thomas Earle | 30 | 0.03 | ![]() | |
Total votes | 114,958 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | |
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Whig | James H. Cravens | 63,237 | |
Whig | John W. Payne | 63,237 | |
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. Marshall | 63,225 | |
Whig | Samuel C. Sample | 63,217 | |
Whig | McCarty Jonathan | 63,216 | |
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. Peaslet | 51,676 | |
Democratic | John M. Lenon | 51,642 | |
Democratic | Henry Secrest | 51,494 | |
Democratic | Tilghman Howard | 51,339 | |
Unpledged | George W. Ewing | 351 | |
Unpledged | George Boon | 196 | |
Unpledged | J. M. Simmons | 51 | |
Liberty | Lesmon Basye | 30 | |
Liberty | James Clayton | 30 | |
Liberty | Cyrus Hamilton | 30 | |
Liberty | Thomas Hicklin | 30 | |
Liberty | Thomas Johns | 30 | |
Liberty | Thomas Maxwell | 30 | |
Liberty | William Smith | 30 | |
Liberty | Samuel Stephenson | 30 | |
Liberty | Daniel Worth | 30 | |
Total | ≈114,958 |