1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee

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1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee
  1840 November 1 - December 4, 1844 1848  
  Clay 1848.jpg Polk 1849.jpg
Nominee Henry Clay James K. Polk
Party Whig Democratic
Home state Kentucky Tennessee
Running mate Theodore Frelinghuysen George M. Dallas
Electoral vote130
Popular vote60,04059,917
Percentage50.05%49.95%

Tennessee Presidential Election Results 1844.svg
County results

President before election

John Tyler
Independent

Elected President

James K. Polk
Democratic

The 1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place between November 1 and December 4, 1844, as part of the 1844 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Contents

Despite being Polk's home state and the state he once served as the governor of, Tennessee voted for the Whig candidate, Henry Clay, over Democratic candidate James K. Polk. Clay won Tennessee by a very narrow margin of 123 votes (0.10%). James K. Polk is one of 4 presidents to lose his residential state in a successful presidential bid. The others are Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Richard Nixon in 1968, and Donald Trump in 2016.

This election marked the third time consecutively that Polk had lost a statewide election in Tennessee. The previous two where in the 1841 and 1843 gubernatorial elections. [1] [2]

Conventions

Both James K. Polk and Henry Clay won their respective party conventions.

Results

1844 United States presidential election in Tennessee [3]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Whig Henry Clay of Kentucky Theodore Frelinghuysen of New York 60,04050.05%13100.00%
Democratic James K. Polk of Tennessee George M. Dallas of Pennsylvania 59,91749.95%00.00%
Total119,957100.00%13100.00%

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References

  1. Leonard, p. 32
  2. Bergeron, pp. 18–19
  3. "1844 Presidential General Election Results - Tennessee". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 23, 2013.