1852 United States presidential election in Georgia

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1852 United States presidential election in Georgia
Flag of Georgia (U.S. state).svg
  1848 November 2, 1852 1856  
  Mathew Brady - Franklin Pierce (cropped).jpg Winfield Scott by Fredricks, 1862 (cropped).jpg Daniel Webster crop.jpg
Nominee Franklin Pierce Winfield Scott Daniel Webster
(Died October 24, 1852)
Party Democratic Whig Union
Home state New Hampshire New Jersey Massachusetts
Running mate William R. King William A. Graham Charles J. Jenkins
Electoral vote1000
Popular vote40,51616,6605,324
Percentage64.70%26.60%8.50%

Georgia 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 Georgia took place on November 2, 1852, as part of the 1852 United States presidential election. Voters chose 10 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Georgia voted for the Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierce, over Commanding General Winfield Scott, the nominee of the Whig Party, and Senator Daniel Webster. Having been denied the Whig nomination at the party's 1852 National Convention, Webster was placed on the ballot without permission by one faction of the state's Constitutional Union Party, but died of natural causes shortly before the election. [1] Pierce won Georgia by a margin of 38.10%.

Results

United States presidential election in Georgia, 1852 [2] [3]
PartyCandidateRunning matePopular voteElectoral vote
Count%Count%
Democratic Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire William R. King of Alabama 40,51664.70%10100.00%
Whig Winfield Scott of New Jersey William A. Graham of North Carolina 16,66026.60%00.00%
Know Nothing Daniel Webster of Massachusetts Charles J. Jenkins of Georgia 5,3248.50%00.00%
Southern Rights George M. Troup
of Georgia
N/A1260.20%00.00%
Total62,626100.00%10100.00%

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References

  1. Ogg, Frederic Austin (1914). Daniel Webster. p. 407.
  2. "1852 Presidential General Election Results - Georgia". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
  3. "1852 Presidential Election". The American Presidency Project. University of California Santa Barbara. Retrieved December 2, 2017.