1852 United States presidential election in Delaware

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1852 United States presidential election in Delaware
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  Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce (cropped).jpg Winfield Scott by Fredricks, 1862 (cropped).jpg
Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott
Party Democratic Whig
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey
Running mate William R. King William Alexander Graham
Electoral vote30
Popular vote6,3186,293
Percentage49.85%49.66%
Delaware Presidential Election Results 1852.svg
County results
President before election

Millard Fillmore
Whig

Elected President

Franklin Pierce
Democratic

The 1852 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Contents

Delaware voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over Whig candidate Winfield Scott. The first Democrat to win Delaware in a presidential election, Pierce carried the state by a very narrow margin of 0.197%, only 25 votes.

Results

1852 United States presidential election in Delaware [1] [a]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire William R. King of Alabama 6,31849.85%3100.00%
Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey William Alexander Graham of North Carolina 6,29349.66%00.00%
Free Soil John P. Hale of New Hampshire George W. Julian of Indiana 620.49%00.00%
Total12,673100.00%3100.00%

Results by county

County [1] Franklin Pierce
Democratic		 Winfield Scott
Whig		 John P. Hale
Free Soil		MarginTotal votes cast
#%#%#%#%
Kent 1,42247.20%1,59152.80%00.00%-169-5.61%3,013
New Castle 3,03851.77%2,76847.17%621.06%2704.60%5,868
Sussex 1,85849.00%1,93451.00%00.00%-76-2.00%3,792
Totals6,31849.85%6,29349.66%620.49%250.197%12,673

Counties that flipped from Whig to Democratic

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Whig

Notes

  1. ↑ These are the results as given by the 1853 Whig Almanac and cited by subsequent third party sources. Newspapers in 1852 gave the results as 6,319 for Pierce and 6,294 for Scott, which results in the exact same margin of victory for Pierce.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 The Whig Almanac and United States Register for 1853. New York: Greeley & McElrath. 1853. p. 52. Retrieved December 17, 2025.


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