1848 United States presidential election in Indiana

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1848 United States presidential election in Indiana
Flag of Indiana.svg
  1844 November 7, 1848 1852  
  Lewis Cass circa 1855.jpg Zachary Taylor cropped.jpg Martin Van Buren daguerreotype by Mathew Brady circa 1849 - edit 1 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Lewis Cass Zachary Taylor Martin Van Buren
Party Democratic Whig Free Soil
Home state Michigan Louisiana New York
Running mate William O. Butler Millard Fillmore Charles F. Adams
Electoral vote1200
Popular vote74,74569,9078,100
Percentage48.93%45.77%5.30%

Indiana Presidential Election Results 1848.svg
County Results

President before election

James K. Polk
Democratic

Elected President

Zachary Taylor
Whig

The 1848 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1848, as part of the 1848 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

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Indiana voted for the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, over Whig candidate Zachary Taylor and Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren. Cass won Indiana by a narrow margin of 3.16%.

This is one of just two times (the other being the extremely disputed and very narrow election of 1876) that a losing Democratic candidate carried Indiana, and the only time that a Democrat who lost the national popular vote carried the state.

Results

1848 United States presidential election in Indiana [1]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Lewis Cass of Michigan William O. Butler of Kentucky 74,74548.93%12100.00%
Whig Zachary Taylor of Louisiana Millard Fillmore of New York 69,90745.77%00.00%
Free Soil Martin Van Buren of New York Charles F. Adams, Sr. of Massachusetts 8,1005.30%00.00%
Total152,752100.00%12100.00%

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References

  1. "1848 Presidential General Election Results - Indiana". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 27, 2013.